Autocratik's
#RPGaDAY
August 18th
– Favourite [Favorite] Game System
Love turns to pain.
Pain to anguish. Anguish give way to anger. And anger, properly
channeled, becomes change. The clarity this process provides is
invaluable.
Had this been the
topic a couple of day ago, my resounding answer would've been
White-Wolf's Storyteller System (cWoD). Hell, it was the first system
I really loved. My young mind didn't care about the statistical
problems at higher levels, in the beginning, I couldn't even
comprehend them. The grand joke here is, now, that I can see the
mechanical difficulties, I don't care about them. Not at all.
Every system is
flawed. No system caters to roleplaying, and no system prevents it.
Ask my cousin, he's
my primary board game partner. Go ahead, ask him how many times
he's told me to shut up, as I describe, and play out the events I
imagine to happen over the course of a game of Carcassonne. It
positively infuriates him. But then again, I wouldn't call him a
roleplayer.
Life works in funny
ways. Maybe I was to attached to White-Wolf as a product. Maybe I had
crossed the line from enjoying something, to becoming a fan of
something. That doesn't sit well with me. A fan had clouded judgment,
branded blinders, and a full morral.
Their nose firmly in
the bag of oats to which they've become accustom, and their eyes
shielded from the wonders around them, fans deviate little from the
vision presented to them by somebody else. Be it of an author,
publisher, developer, or even a game system, a fan is a follower.
I do not want to be
a fan.
Today, my answer,
for the purposes of Mr. Chapman's exercise, is Numenera's Cypher
system. I don't own Numenera, and I don't think I'm interested in The
Strange. I'm currently playing in a Numenera game, and loving it. I
think I'll pick up the core book, eventually. Maybe.
I'd hate to become a
fan, they usually blow.
THE I'M NO LONGER A FAN SALE
The following books are for sale or trade --- make me an offer!
Vampire The Dark Ages
Umbra The Velvet Shadow - WtA
The Sea of Shadows -WtO
The Risen - WtO
Wraith Players Guide
World of Darkness Hong Kong
The 1000 Hells - KotE
Kindred of The East Companion
Kindred of The East
Mummy The Resurrection
Project Twilight
The Inquisition
Dark Colony - VtM
Midnight Siege - VtM
Vampire Storytellers Handbook Revised.
Guide to The Camerilla Revised
Guide to The Sabbat Revised
Guide to The Anarchs Revised
The Hunters Hunted
Vampire The Masquerade Revised
Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition - PoD Black and White
A World of Darkness 1st Edition
nWoD the World of Darkness
Changeling: The Dreaming Second Edition
Changeling Storytellers Guide
Book of Storyteller Secrets - CtD
Dreams and Nightmares - PoD Black and White - CtD
The Bygone Beastary
The Autumn People - CtD
Players guide for Changeling The Dreaming
Clanbook Lassombra
Book of Lost Dreams - CtD
Mummy Second Edition
Blood-Dimmed Tides
Clanbook Tremere
Clanbook Assamite
Gehenna - VtM
World of Darkness Time of Judgment
Gypsies
Orpheus
Rage Across Appalachia - WtA
Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition - PoD Black and White
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