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System Weights?

Started by PrometheanVigil, July 17, 2014, 08:35:29 AM

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jeff37923

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July 20, 2014, 03:14:52 PM
OK, so how would you rate something like Traveller? Both Mongoose Traveller and Classic Traveller are simple when you just use the Core Rules (or LBBs 1-3) but becomes progressively more complex as you add on the supplements and expand the reach of the rules. The end result from the expanded rules in the supplements makes for a more complete game experience with added details, but they are not needed depending on what you are doing with Traveller.
"Meh."

Phillip

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July 20, 2014, 03:32:55 PM
Quote from: jeff37923;770763OK, so how would you rate something like Traveller? Both Mongoose Traveller and Classic Traveller are simple when you just use the Core Rules (or LBBs 1-3) but becomes progressively more complex as you add on the supplements and expand the reach of the rules. The end result from the expanded rules in the supplements makes for a more complete game experience with added details, but they are not needed depending on what you are doing with Traveller.

I found Books 1-3 about as "light" as Gamma World. The GDW guys really grokked the original D&D game, and even though theirs has key differences it is also broadly similar in many ways.

The later material, from Mercenary to Snapshot, Mayday to Striker, offers a smorgasbord of both elaborations and simplifications.
And we are here as on a darkling plain  ~ Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, ~ Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Phillip

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July 20, 2014, 04:00:21 PM Last Edit: July 20, 2014, 04:08:34 PM by Phillip
FWIW, the popular "go-to" games IME in the late '70s - early '80s were

Dungeons & Dragons (more or less BX plus selected elaborations)
Boot Hill
En Garde!
Traveller (Books 1-3 plus Citizens of the Imperium)
Villains & Vigilantes
Gamma World or Metamorphosis Alpha
Top Secret (regarded by some as toó baroque in some respects)
Call of Cthulhu

I know Star Frontiers was very popular in other circles.

Chainmail, The Sword and the Flame, Tractics, Recon, Starguard, Warbots & Death Machines, Car Wars (miniatures)
And we are here as on a darkling plain  ~ Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, ~ Where ignorant armies clash by night.
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