Quote from: Phillip;731615How is that different from 1st-4th, 6th? Or is the point that it's not?

   Not different from 1st-4th, but 6th did break out a lot of the derived stats that made DEX a super-stat for combat purposes (and the Advanced Player's Guide included another change or two to increase that trend).

I have friends who love 3e and I am happy that Paizo made a game that makes my friends happy. For 3e fans, Pathfinder appears to be a great gift and joy.

I am also happy for friends who enjoy RPGA and Pathfinder's living campaigns which provide them with free or low cost adventures where they can build their characters over time through story arcs that they enjoy.

I love the new edition of the Iron Kingdoms Roleplaying Game.

The two career system is just genius. IT allows you to make an incredible array of characters and does so in a streamlined manner. The new system fits the setting so much better than the d20 version.



I was looking over my Dragon Age RPG and realized how close to RQ6 the Stunting system is. While the RQ6 Special Effects are determined by differences in the level of successes; the Dragon Age Stunts are gained depending on the combination of the dice rolled. They are in essence very similar in their function however.


A few years ago, with my growing dissatisfaction with D&D 3/4e; I discovered B/X era D&D and promptly fell in love. The simplicity of the rules just spoke to me. I also branched out into retroclones wherein I found Adventurer Conqueror King. ACK is exactly what I want from a D&D rules system. Everything from the unified rolls mechanics, ascending AC, Proficiency system, and more options for Racial Classes is just perfect.

Character creation in 3e is more flexible than in any other edition of D&D.

On paper, FATE looks like a great balance or traditional roleplaying with player narrative authority.

I really like Pathfinder's various character creation options for differentiating PCs. As said, it's a lot like 2e's kits (wich I also liked a lot!) in that it makes a ton of extra classes, multiclassing, etc, largely unnecessary wich is a huge plus! Besides, as an archivist myself, the fact that Archivist is a pretty good Bard variation rocks! I also like PF's take on monsters, the use of HPL/CoC monsters, the various stuff for Fighters (weapon styles), Rangers (ditto) and Sorcerers (backgrounds - I wanna play a half-orc sorceress with aberration background for some reason...) etc etc etc. It's really cool and awesome.

For 4e I like how it made Fighters good thru the whole game.

Heck, I was doing that before you started the thread.

d20 Gamma World: Really good DMG, usefull for not just GW. Interesting "freeform magic" system in the way nanites are used. Reminded me of Mage. Not surprising as this iteration of GW was from White Wolf. PC start towns and local communities as PCs. Great idea half-ass presented and never realized.

D&D Gamma World: Streamlines 4e nicely. PC character that is a cluster of rats (or kittens) in the shape of a person.

Fate Aspects are great for adding formal packages, advantages and disadvantages to characters without messing around with point totals.

The book layout and design for 4e is top-notch. So are the setting books.

Gurps 4e fixed a number of issues I had with 3e, especially combat-related stuff.

I like AD&D multi-classing, as well as reaction adjustments for talk-y challenges.

I like Kits & Specialty Priests from AD&D2.

I like the weapon mastery rules from BECMI.

I like the unified backend system in 3E.

I like the setting of 4E (if not the thingname nomenclature), as well as the updated mechanics and the ritual system.

As a tool for world-building, I like 3e prestige classes.

Dispite my dislike of D&D4e, I think Essentials is the game we should have gotten from the get go. It felt more like a completed game and not a running playtest like the original 4e launch. It is sad they stopped supporting Essentials, but I guess they realized they needed a whole new system by that point.

Of everything to come out of 4e, I think the implied setting of the Nentir Vale was exceptionally well done. I was really heartbroken when they canceled the full setting book that was announced...

I would still like to see a setting book, but now that 5e seems to be tied exclusively to The Forgotten Realms, I doubt we ever will.

I think Star Wars: Saga Edition did a fairly good job of pulling the non-Force using classes upwards, rather than trying to drag Jedi down.

When in the hands of two invested players Riddle of Steel's combat system feels like long, tense moments of silence punctuated by fury and confusion, which is exactly how a fight feels.

Godlike weaves superheros into the brutality of WWII in a way not yet equaled.

Quote from: YourSwordisMine;731729Dispite my dislike of D&D4e, I think Essentials is the game we should have gotten from the get go. It felt more like a completed game and not a running playtest like the original 4e launch. It is sad they stopped supporting Essentials, but I guess they realized they needed a whole new system by that point.

Yeah, the publication order should have been reversed

I think Reign pretty much sucks, but I like their "character backstory" tables; I forget if those are random or if I made them random... anyways, they're pretty good.

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