Comments on: System junkie http://www.lategaming.com/2007/03/02/system-junkie/ staying up late, playing games Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:13:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Aidan http://www.lategaming.com/2007/03/02/system-junkie/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Aidan Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:32:20 +0000 http://www.lategaming.com/2007/03/02/system-junkie/#comment-132 I wish I could continue the above meme, but really I can't. In the past seven years I've played in two games, each for about 6 months. I GM'd both times (and they were both d20 system, mostly because that was what the group wanted to play). Anyhoo, I was about to post a big comment but I've decided to make it a blog post. I wish I could continue the above meme, but really I can’t. In the past seven years I’ve played in two games, each for about 6 months. I GM’d both times (and they were both d20 system, mostly because that was what the group wanted to play).

Anyhoo, I was about to post a big comment but I’ve decided to make it a blog post.

]]> By: matt http://www.lategaming.com/2007/03/02/system-junkie/comment-page-1/#comment-129 matt Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:20:13 +0000 http://www.lategaming.com/2007/03/02/system-junkie/#comment-129 Personally I'm liking: Modern Day: ERIS/The 23rd Letter Horror: Cthulhu Superheroes: MSH Advanced Fantasy:...um....A Cthulhu/RQ amalgam... Sci-Fi: I have a hankering to play Classic Traveller... Personally I’m liking:

Modern Day: ERIS/The 23rd Letter
Horror: Cthulhu
Superheroes: MSH Advanced
Fantasy:…um….A Cthulhu/RQ amalgam…
Sci-Fi: I have a hankering to play Classic Traveller…

]]> By: paulk http://www.lategaming.com/2007/03/02/system-junkie/comment-page-1/#comment-128 paulk Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:44:30 +0000 http://www.lategaming.com/2007/03/02/system-junkie/#comment-128 Personally I like to find a system that works for a type of game and then keep it regardless of the "actual" game being played. Modern Day/Post Apoc - Stocs (god help me...) Horror/Mystery - Cthulhu Fantasy - If only I could find one.... To me a system should have a theme, concentrate on it outside of any specific background and never be more than 10 pages long. I don't have time to learn a system for every game I play. I don't even have time to learn a system for every game I run. What time I have I prefer to spend making the game as rich as possible, not trying to understand that D4 phases is actually 2.75 seconds. Also, if the system could make me tea while I learned it, that would be great. Personally I like to find a system that works for a type of game and then keep it regardless of the “actual” game being played.

Modern Day/Post Apoc – Stocs (god help me…)
Horror/Mystery – Cthulhu
Fantasy – If only I could find one….

To me a system should have a theme, concentrate on it outside of any specific background and never be more than 10 pages long.

I don’t have time to learn a system for every game I play. I don’t even have time to learn a system for every game I run. What time I have I prefer to spend making the game as rich as possible, not trying to understand that D4 phases is actually 2.75 seconds.

Also, if the system could make me tea while I learned it, that would be great.

]]> By: Aidan http://www.lategaming.com/2007/03/02/system-junkie/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Aidan Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:42:57 +0000 http://www.lategaming.com/2007/03/02/system-junkie/#comment-103 Agreed. Generic systems are like anything else that is generic: it'll do anywhere from 30-80% of what you want to be able to do in the way you want to do it, and then you'll have to tweak it. Agreed. Generic systems are like anything else that is generic: it’ll do anywhere from 30-80% of what you want to be able to do in the way you want to do it, and then you’ll have to tweak it.

]]> By: matt http://www.lategaming.com/2007/03/02/system-junkie/comment-page-1/#comment-102 matt Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:18:20 +0000 http://www.lategaming.com/2007/03/02/system-junkie/#comment-102 Generic systems, bad, mmkay? Oh, they have their place but I've very much in favour of systems designed with the genre or background in mind. Generic systems, bad, mmkay?

Oh, they have their place but I’ve very much in favour of systems designed with the genre or background in mind.

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