Gaming poll

[gridlore]

I'm plotting out a space-opera game, and interested in what systems locals who might be interested in a face-to-face RPG campaign would be willing to play under.

The choices:

• FUDGE. Fudge is a rules-light role-playing game, concentrating on role-playing rather than endless dice rolls and tables and similar detailed game mechanics. It also uses words rather than numbers to describe character traits. Advantages: Free, fairly simple mechanics. Disadvantages: Poorly supported.


• GURPS. With GURPS, you can be anyone you want - an elf hero fighting for the forces of good, a shadowy femme fatale on a deep-cover mission, a futuristic swashbuckler carving up foes with a force sword in his hand and a beautiful woman by his side . . . or literally anything else! GURPS has been the premiere universal roleplaying game for almost two decades. The new Fourth Edition makes it even better! Advantages: Comprehensive, extensive support. Disadvantages: Not free (although there is a free "GURPS Lite" that teaches the basics), mechanics can get complex.


• Dark Heresy. You are an Acolyte in the service of the Emperor's Inquisition. You stand in the front line of a great and secret war where your duty is to hunt out the foul stench of heresy, the vile alien, and the twisted influence of Chaos. You will tread where others fear, venturing to distant planets, ancient space hulks and the unsavoury depths of the under-hive. You will never know fame nor reward, yet if you stand resolute your deeds will be whispered to the God-Emperor of Mankind and your name will be revered for millennia. Advantages: Good mechanics, loads of setting goodness. Disadvantages: Single setting, not familiar to many people.

[Poll #1552090]

Comments

[kshandra]

You do realize, of course, that by not building a filter populated solely by SF Bay Area residents and only posting this poll to that filter, you're going to get responses from people who have no ability to attend a gaming session here again.

Yes, I'm bitter. Though not necessarily about this.

[davehogg.livejournal.com]

Obviously, I can't make it to a gaming session in the Bay Area, but I'd be very curious to hear how it goes if you use FUDGE. It's a fascinating system, but I've never been able to see how well it works in an actual campaign.

[dalen-talas.livejournal.com]

Since you're using Dark Heresy, how about Rogue Trader?

[seawasp]

I'm not local so my opinion's irrelevant, but Space Opera, obviously, if you're planning to do space opera. Unless you're doing Star Warsy space opera, in which case Star Wars (the older version).

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

This. (WEG d6 has always worked for me.)

[travelswithkuma.livejournal.com]

Kuma Bear would like to,
but it is toooo far for bear to walk.