Re: [HOE] d20, guns and Star Wars

[Michael Watson <mwatson1@bigpond.net.au>]

At 11:20 PM 21/05/02, you wrote:

>>I think this is another case of trying to make something generic
>>(and crap when it comes to HP in my opinion) fit something that isn't
>>generic. You end up having the rules re-written anyway. Oh and if you can,
>>try and find an adventure called Sisar Run (I think thats the one) written
>>in part by none other than our very own Shane :-) It will be interesting to
>>play that one through.
>Actually the System built for West End Starwars actually was pushed as a 
>generic system.  They called it the D6 system.  Men in Black and a few 
>other games used it.  Of course West End also had the Master lock( I think 
>that was the name of the system).  Which they used for a whole slew of 
>games(Tank Girl, Species, and of course the totally Awesome Shatterzone).
>
>Honestly I never like West Ends system.  I always thought that character 
>Generation was really weak.  It always seemed like they really wanted you 
>to use there Archtypes, and not to come up with unique characters. IMHO. 
>That and some of the later books took a lot of liberties with the expanded 
>universe.

Yeah I got that impression also, but it's not really that hard to make 
unique characters. I've heard that the new d20 system lets you come up with 
more unique characters. I think that's a good thing, cos something I hated 
about AD&D was the way everyone was always the same and you never really 
got much better. I think this is getting off topic now though, so we should 
probably stop talking about it or move it to some other list that I am 
unaware of ;-)

- michael


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