Role Call #27
I seem to be on a Role. (I am genetically incapable of passing up a straight line. Ask anyone who knows me…)
If you were somehow forbidden from playing with your favorite system, genre or setting, what would you substitute?
The Smartass Answer: Anything that allowed me to hunt down and beat the snot out of the person who barred me from my favorite system, genre, or setting.
The System Answer: Of late, I use GURPS a lot, not because the mechanics are simple or elegant, but because of the wealth of source material. Also, GURPS Lite rules are available for free. If, for some reason, I was unable to use GURPS, I’d probably end up using d20 or Palladium, again for the richness of source material, not the mechanics.
The Genre Answer: My current favorite genre in which to run games is alternate history/steampunk. If I wasn’t going to use that genre, I’d probably find some way to warp high fantasy into something a little more interesting…or maybe just run Toon for a while. As a player, I’d go looking for just about anything else. As Cathy says, “Call me a game ho’, but honestly, I’ll play nearly anything.”
The Setting Answer: This would be a fun challenge for me, and probably the only part of the scenario I’d actually enjoy. I’d probably pick some point in spacetime that I knew nothing about–maybe the Inca Empire, medieval Iceland, or prehistoric Australia–read up on it, and come up with a game.
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