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Author Topic: What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?  (Read 14443 times)

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What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?
« on: January 18, 2022, 02:15:05 PM »
Obviously I've become a Savage Worlds apologist, I hold that no system is perfect, it depends on what you wanna do with it. Right now, I'm into the "keeping it lean, and mean and letting the good time roll." SW works for that across a lot of genres that allow me to do that. It's definitely not perfect, but since it's ridiculously modular I can skip the shit I don't like without losing *anything*.

Systems I look forward to becoming a Evangelist for Runescape/Mythras someday.

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Re: What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2022, 02:19:42 PM »
Savage worlds as well, also the ffg warhammer 40k line and wfrp any edition except 3rd.

Looking into mythras and some of the other d100 games out there but not sold just yet
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Re: What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2022, 02:23:04 PM »
None, really. I've played enough games over the years that I can appreciate many of their weaknesses as well as their strengths. If I make suggestions, I try to gear it toward the other person's expressed preferences, rather than just recommending my personal favorites.

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Re: What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2022, 02:36:49 PM »
None, really. I've played enough games over the years that I can appreciate many of their weaknesses as well as their strengths. If I make suggestions, I try to gear it toward the other person's expressed preferences, rather than just recommending my personal favorites.

So what's your absolute GO TO?

Without having made my Universal Heartbreaker - I go with what hits my sweet spot in terms of flexibility, scaleability and "horsepower" (which is does it let my PC's do what my players want).

I should also obviously put Talislanta on my Evangelism list.

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Re: What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2022, 02:56:23 PM »
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Mekton Zeta (with or without Cyberpunk 2020)

Those are my top 2.

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Re: What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2022, 03:02:29 PM »
Mine are AD&D 2e (you remember you were happiest here ;) ), In Nomine SJG, and usually first editions of '90s games.

Talislanta was a surprise in practice and I've come to really enjoy its potential -- not yet an evangelist, but inching closer!
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Re: What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2022, 03:07:28 PM »
Greyhawk and 2E

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Re: What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2022, 03:07:43 PM »
I'm not much of an evangelist; I don't go out my way to convince anyone they should play this or that. I just play (and discuss) what I like. That includes original D&D, AD&D (1e), and BRP-based games, for the most part. I also like Rolemaster (1e/2e) for some things. Setting-wise I prefer homebrew. Out of the published settings I would typically lean towards Greyhawk. The Hyperborea setting from Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea is pretty cool, too. Sometimes I like Middle Earth as a setting. Young Kingdoms (i.e., Elric) is also cool.
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Re: What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2022, 03:08:22 PM »
Not very zealous evangelist but:  Earthdawn!

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Re: What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?
« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2022, 03:32:05 PM »
Savage worlds
Figured as much. Wondered why you didn't put PEG in Yellow or Red on your "Woke" list, despite their MANY documented woke actions and association with a known sexual harasser (who is listed as "red" himself on your list).
*shrug* Guess the list of biased creators is also biased.

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Re: What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?
« Reply #10 on: January 18, 2022, 03:45:32 PM »
System: Strictly speaking? None, but hopefully my own system one day. I always find fault in everything, even things I might like. Closest contenders are:

  • MSHRPG/FASERIP: Haven't played in years and wouldn't play it as is, but one of the most versatile systems ever created. This game brought me down the rabbit hole of effect-based design, with the idea that everything was a power with a Rank that determines how powerful its effects are, including damage, range, how difficult they are to resist, etc.
  • D&D 3e: The pinnacle of D&D and most under appreciated redheaded stepchild of the editions. Wouldn't play it as is, but OGL brought us countless variations of it, even the OSR, arguably. Feats were crap in implementation, but great conceptually, d20+Mod mechanics streamlined and cleaned up D&D, while Attack Bonus was close enough mathematically and conceptually to THAC0 to still feel like D&D (unlike later editions, which changed so much they feel like a different game).

Setting: Dark Sun, the most under appreciated and greatest D&D setting ever created, illustrated by Brom, one of the greatest illustrators to ever have worked on D&D (and also co-contributor to setting's creation). Later released, plus the metaplot messed it up, but that is easily ignored, specially if you can get a copy of the original (early supplements like Elves of Athas, Veiled Alliance and Dune Trader were good, though).
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Re: What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?
« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2022, 03:47:16 PM »
*double post  :P*

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Re: What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2022, 03:48:35 PM »
My evangelism is system and setting agnostic!
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Re: What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2022, 03:48:57 PM »
I know so little about other systems, I can't be fair.
However, I love the elegant simplicity of MELEE / WIZARD so much, I try hard to plant the seeds.
I even created my own Unauthorized rulebook versions, with art from other sources, an index, compliations of magazine articles/variants, etc.

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Re: What Systems/Settings are you an Evangelist for?
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2022, 04:00:33 PM »
None, really. I've played enough games over the years that I can appreciate many of their weaknesses as well as their strengths. If I make suggestions, I try to gear it toward the other person's expressed preferences, rather than just recommending my personal favorites.

So what's your absolute GO TO?

Without having made my Universal Heartbreaker - I go with what hits my sweet spot in terms of flexibility, scaleability and "horsepower" (which is does it let my PC's do what my players want).

I should also obviously put Talislanta on my Evangelism list.
I've switched around a lot over the years. I currently use B/X a lot. But I steal from AD&D1e, because it has such a large corpus, and from everywhere in the OSR for the same reason. For pickups, I like Searchers of the Unknown. I played a lot of Fudge at one point, and GURPS, and D&D third edition, and MSH, and Marvel Saga as well. Many indie games, too. For settings, I tend to do my own, so I read them more for entertainment and inspiration than direct use. But I liked the old pre-gray box Forgotten Realms, where it was a patchwork of rumors, with dark tragedies and cold weather. I like the zaniness of Over the Edge and the completely different zaniness of Teenagers from Outer Space. I like the not-trying-too-hard Hammer Horror feel of Chill vs. the very-much-trying-too-hard trashy tabloid feel of Unknown Armies. The sheer scope of Transhuman Space contrasts with the uncomfortableness of Eclipse Phase. The infinite mercantile wanderlust of planet-hopping Traveller vs. the more constrained and focused space cops with a clear enemy and distinct but not too alien aliens of Star Frontiers, or the new frontier of Blue Planet. Many more.

I've read Savage Worlds, but have no real experience with it. I do have the big blue tome of Talislanta around somewhere.