After 25 years of role-playing, the normal gamut of cycles of playing styles, and owning more books than some small town libraries, what is my favorite RPG system.
I was tempted to yell out CoC since (a) I get compliments on how I run the system and (b) it's the only damn thing I run on a regualr basis. But while CoC may be my go-to game, I'm actually still learning the wonkiness of the system.
I could go with Risus. It's so simple, it's so clever, and I so don't need to roll dice half the time (but it's fun). However, if it was my favorite system, I would be running it more than once a year.
Hackmaster? Talislanta? No, but they are strong influences on my choice.
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (Either edition will do).
C'mon, it's the system of my youth. I spent considerable space in my brain memorizing the charts so that today, if a bunch of people pointed guns to my head and demanded I run a D&D game, I would use this system and not even blink an eye. For Christ's sake, I got THAC0, and if I understood it, you people are simply weak minded.
(Sidebar: I never understood why people hated THAC0. It's just a cleaned up version of the attacked matrix in the 1st Ed DMG with systematic increases. The two charts are almost identical.)
AD&D is how I compare new systems AD&D is the basis for Hackmaster. I can still see vestiges of AD&D in the new 5e books. Heck, Talislanta's system was the stripped down version of AD&D and morphed into 3rd.
For me, the system is quick and simple. We had four gaming sessions where we fought more monsters than a 3rd-5th edition games fights in an entire campaign... and we may not have even levelled!
I was tempted to yell out CoC since (a) I get compliments on how I run the system and (b) it's the only damn thing I run on a regualr basis. But while CoC may be my go-to game, I'm actually still learning the wonkiness of the system.
I could go with Risus. It's so simple, it's so clever, and I so don't need to roll dice half the time (but it's fun). However, if it was my favorite system, I would be running it more than once a year.
Hackmaster? Talislanta? No, but they are strong influences on my choice.
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (Either edition will do).
(Sidebar: I never understood why people hated THAC0. It's just a cleaned up version of the attacked matrix in the 1st Ed DMG with systematic increases. The two charts are almost identical.)
AD&D is how I compare new systems AD&D is the basis for Hackmaster. I can still see vestiges of AD&D in the new 5e books. Heck, Talislanta's system was the stripped down version of AD&D and morphed into 3rd.
For me, the system is quick and simple. We had four gaming sessions where we fought more monsters than a 3rd-5th edition games fights in an entire campaign... and we may not have even levelled!
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