Quote from: SettembriniFuck, Jim, you can´t answer the question!
It was not a real question!

He didn´t say,...ahh forget it, just merrily babble all you want.

:rolleyes:

As James said - what the fuck? Why can't the question be answered? It's about one's subjective opinion. The fact that there is no way that there is an objectively "best" combat system makes the subjectivity of the question and answers pretty self-evident.

Okay, deep breath, GURPS has a better combat system than Rolemaster, but it's easier to teach Rolemaster to a new player than GURPS because GURPS has a rule for everything and Rolemaster has a chart for everything, but the charts all work the same way.

It's Rolemaster's magic and character creation (RMSS in particular) that I love.

since this is a purely subjective discussion, here's the other favorite:

tweaked megatraveller.  instead of damage being straight points (e.g., gauss rifle = 4), it becomes #d6 damage, modified as normal (by degree of success and penetration).  i added the hit locations from mechwarrior 1e for variety.  hit points are determined by averaging str and end (round up), which becomes the same as the "body" score in MW.  

my crew absolutely loved firefights with it.  as soon as you defeat armor (pen vs. armor rating), the damage just gets ridiculous, with limbs getting blown off, heads vaporized, etc.   over-the-top levels of carnage, especially when you use the PGMP & FGMPs.

mechanically it's a bit clunky, but we've been using it for so long (almost 20 years?  whoa) it's become second nature.  

I like Unknown Armies the best:

1. Fistfights are long and brutal, Gunfights are short and DEADLY!
2. It's psychologically damaging (or hardening if you're lucky!).

But I like a lot of others too!

D&D/D20 is great, easy to understand with lots of combat options.

WoD is both brutal and cinematic, and much quicker than oWoD


I like Palladium Combat too, every character class seems to have it's own unique strategies to win, which I enjoy a lot!

Quote from: ColonelHardissonAs James said - what the fuck? Why can't the question be answered? It's about one's subjective opinion. The fact that there is no way that there is an objectively "best" combat system makes the subjectivity of the question and answers pretty self-evident.

Don't fret it. Those of us that can think for ourselves knew it was blatantly obvious from the "explain yourself" part of the question that the criteria was "whatever the hell you want your criteria to be, but be sure to tell us what it was."

Or maybe it's the language barrier and not some need to be led by the nose that stopped him from realizing what seemed perfectly clear.