I mostly play Pathfinder 1e because all my friends have been on the D&D 3.0 track for the last 20 years. And I absolutely agree that the "crunchy" games tend to be the most annoying to learn and the most easy to exploit, annoying new players who aren't middle school autists with infinite time to absorb the material. Still, a few fond memories of playing the old LotR setting in Rollmaster. I've still got the books I bought when I was a teenager, gathering dust in my room.
I'm also a huge fan of White Wolf / Onyx Path games, as the modern horror setting is a lot of fun. But I've had a harder time to get people to buy into those games, often because the rules are too soft and the stories tend to be a bit grimdark for my friends' tastes.
Oh yeah, I've been playing WoD games for over a decade now; my longtime RPG group I met in college started as dedicated WoD group, and although we paly a bit of everything today, its probably still about 50% WW. There's a lot to like about them, even when the actual rules... need some help.
Most recently, we have a game that WoD/Lancer, with WoD rules for the out-of-mech stuff, and swapping to Lancer rules for mech fighting.
Exalted is great too, but good lord, none of the editions of it actually feel like they want to be played. Most fun I've had with Exalted was hacking FATE to run a game in the setting.
DnD 3.0/Pathfinder 1e are fun, but also have enough problems I've pretty much moved away from them at this point. Like Exalted, have big 'ivory tower game design' issues.
Exalted is great too, but good lord, none of the editions of it actually feel like they want to be played. Most fun I’ve had with Exalted was hacking FATE to run a game in the setting.
Best setting, worst system.
The crazy thing is that Abberant is right there. Its not like they've never made a Super Hero game before. But instead we get this Rube Goldberg Charms system.
The world is so rich. But they've redone the mechanics at least three times and it never gets any better. Ah well...
Incidentally, I also have a Mage one-shot that I did eventually get up there. If you're interested. Zero out the price if you want to check it out. I'm just happy whenever I see the download counter increment.
I mostly play Pathfinder 1e because all my friends have been on the D&D 3.0 track for the last 20 years. And I absolutely agree that the "crunchy" games tend to be the most annoying to learn and the most easy to exploit, annoying new players who aren't middle school autists with infinite time to absorb the material. Still, a few fond memories of playing the old LotR setting in Rollmaster. I've still got the books I bought when I was a teenager, gathering dust in my room.
I'm also a huge fan of White Wolf / Onyx Path games, as the modern horror setting is a lot of fun. But I've had a harder time to get people to buy into those games, often because the rules are too soft and the stories tend to be a bit grimdark for my friends' tastes.
Oh yeah, I've been playing WoD games for over a decade now; my longtime RPG group I met in college started as dedicated WoD group, and although we paly a bit of everything today, its probably still about 50% WW. There's a lot to like about them, even when the actual rules... need some help.
Most recently, we have a game that WoD/Lancer, with WoD rules for the out-of-mech stuff, and swapping to Lancer rules for mech fighting.
Exalted is great too, but good lord, none of the editions of it actually feel like they want to be played. Most fun I've had with Exalted was hacking FATE to run a game in the setting.
DnD 3.0/Pathfinder 1e are fun, but also have enough problems I've pretty much moved away from them at this point. Like Exalted, have big 'ivory tower game design' issues.
Best setting, worst system.
The crazy thing is that Abberant is right there. Its not like they've never made a Super Hero game before. But instead we get this Rube Goldberg Charms system.
The world is so rich. But they've redone the mechanics at least three times and it never gets any better. Ah well...
Incidentally, I also have a Mage one-shot that I did eventually get up there. If you're interested. Zero out the price if you want to check it out. I'm just happy whenever I see the download counter increment.