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What's Your Favorite Game & Why?

Since this group is for gamers about games, let me get started.

My favorite system right is D6 Fantasy. I enjoy fast, abstract combat and simple, easy-to-use systems that I can modify without breaking. To that end, I also like Cyberpunk 2020 and have been looking into Savage Worlds.

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Permalink Reply by Dennis N. Santana on October 25, 2009 at 9:09am: Maid: RPG because it's fast, random and ridiculously funny.

It's a game that's modeled after anime sitcoms. You play a group of anime-style maids in service to the "master" (the GM) who is a rich guy with a mansion. You try to gain the master's favor by doing all of the often ridiculous housekeeping tasks he asks (I remember once my maid party had to go to the ancient ruins under the mansion to destroy a lovecraftian horror that was messing with the water).

You can generate a whole game and its situations by rolling on random tables, and everything is d6-based. You also generate characters, their personalities and their backstory entirely randomly too.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Viriatha de Cordova on October 25, 2009 at 9:20am: What does favor get you if you earn it? do I want to know? lol; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dennis N. Santana on October 25, 2009 at 9:32am: Favor is like XP. You can use it to boost your scores. You can also spend favor to direct the story for a bit, like causing a random event. If you "die" you can lose favor and a bit of your scores to return to the game. If you lose all your favor, you are fired.

There's a misconception that the game is inherently romantic or perverted, which it isn't unless you want it to be.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Hammer on October 25, 2009 at 9:39am: Maid sounds interesting, but I think I could only ever play it as a one off comedy thing, the same way I treat Paranoia.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Viriatha de Cordova on October 25, 2009 at 9:52am: Paranoia is hilarious but yes, hard to keep it interesting enough to base a campaign around.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by F. Douglas Wall 1 day ago: You can do long term comedy, but you have to add a serious element to it to create continuity and investment.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cassey Toi on October 26, 2009 at 5:01am: Oh it sounds awesome.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Hammer on October 25, 2009 at 9:19am: Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader, both set in the Warhammer 40K universe.

The setting is so dark, it's pitch black; any given object is probably going to kill you, corrupt you or drive you insane; just about every enemy is tougher then you are and most importantly, it has some pretty cool sci-fi trappings. It's like CoC, but more over the top and with a lower PC body count.

I'm really just a masochist. I mean, 40% success rate can be considered normal in DH sometimes.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Viriatha de Cordova on October 25, 2009 at 9:20am: What do you think of Necromunda?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Hammer on October 25, 2009 at 9:31am: I like the sound of it, but I've never played it. I've never actually played any of the Gamesworkshop games apart from Battlefleet Gothic.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Adam Weber on October 25, 2009 at 9:53am: heh, I have played everything GW except for blood bowl and battlefleet gothic.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Hammer on October 25, 2009 at 10:10am: Battlefleet Gothic is good as long as you don't get too many ships involved. More then about 5 ships each and combat rounds start to get far too long.

On the other hand, the only thing I have to compare it to is RPG combat, I have no idea if it takes as long for a turn in the other games.; ▶ Reply to This