hey, well since you've started talking about roleplay i think i'll have to say hello and stick my nose in ;) I've not played 3rd Ed D&D, but i'm not entirely sure how well their (Wizards of the Coasts) generic system works. I think there are a lot better systems out there. 'Fading Suns' (http://www.holistic-design.com/FS/FSmain.htm) is a great game -in a similar setting to 'Dune'- which is a well balanced system for guns, swords and hand to hand combat. I'm running a 'rifts' (http://store.palladiumbooks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1001&Product_Code=800&Category_Code=R800) campign at the moment, but i don't think i'd recommend their system. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (http://www.hogshead.demon.co.uk/WarhammerFRPindex.htm) is a good -but fantasy only- system (it's got a nice grisly critical hit thing :P )
And finally, my favourite is SLA Industries (http://www.nightfall.co.uk/index.php?page=index). A good combat/skills system, but i'd be impressed if you could find it. Oh, and it's got that amusingly dark, British sense of humour.
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Date: 2003-02-17 11:29 am (UTC)I've not played 3rd Ed D&D, but i'm not entirely sure how well their (Wizards of the Coasts) generic system works. I think there are a lot better systems out there. 'Fading Suns' (http://www.holistic-design.com/FS/FSmain.htm) is a great game -in a similar setting to 'Dune'- which is a well balanced system for guns, swords and hand to hand combat.
I'm running a 'rifts' (http://store.palladiumbooks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1001&Product_Code=800&Category_Code=R800) campign at the moment, but i don't think i'd recommend their system.
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (http://www.hogshead.demon.co.uk/WarhammerFRPindex.htm) is a good -but fantasy only- system (it's got a nice grisly critical hit thing :P )
And finally, my favourite is SLA Industries (http://www.nightfall.co.uk/index.php?page=index). A good combat/skills system, but i'd be impressed if you could find it. Oh, and it's got that amusingly dark, British sense of humour.