Re: GZG DS2 Mikko: Genres for DS2.

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Tom Sullivan wrote:

> My first language is gibberish, so we are even on that count.  Let me 
> offer an analogy, if I may.  Long, long ago, I used to play a
Superhero 
> RPG called "Villans and Vigilanties".  The V&V system had all kinds of

> flaws (the tougher you were, the more likely uyou were to be knocked 
> unconscious, for example....), but it was a more or less "generic" 
> superhero system--although it was never billed as such.  Those were
more 
> innocent days--that would allow you to re-create your favorite hero,
if 
> you so chose.  To make, say, the Human Torch you would give your 
> character "Flame Powers"; these would allow him to burst into flame, 
> fly, and throw fireballs around.  Simple, eh?  Compare that to the 
> Champions RPG...in which you would but Flight, Power Blast, etc., and 
> define them as bursting into flame and throwing fireballs around. 
Which 
> is better?  V&V, which straightjackets you into what the writers 
> percieve as proper "Flame Powers", or Champions, which allows you to 
> define "Flame Powers" however you damned well please?

I'm a Champions kind of guy, though I never actually played it... unless
you're simulating real history (or well-known fictional setting, in
which
case you should say as much), it's the hard game stats which should form
the basis of any points cost.

However, I'm a realist. Ofcourse DSII can't cover everything. It claims
it
can, though, and I bought on the premise that it might be able to cover
the kinds of games I might want to play. Turns out it can't (without
major
work). No biggie, it's a good read and has a number of good ideas --
which
is a lot better than most of the dust-collectors on my game shelf.

It just pisses me off that it's apparently somehow MY FAULT that I don't
like the genre DSII covers or that I don't feel like adapting DSII to
Monopoly.

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