Message from @Beemann
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GURPS and Savage Worlds are generalist systems overall- you can do whatever you like with em
Check out Snakes & Saloons, it's DnD5e conversion.
>D20 conversions
I've never understood the draw of these
I don't know if it's because I got started with World of Darkness, but I've always been especially uninterested in actual DnD.
Oddly, that same distaste doesn't apply to Pathfinder.
Maybe I'm just a hipster.
Pathfinder is basically 3.5 with newer shit
I've not been a huge fan of 3.x in some time
Basically since I started looking into other systems
Just read up on Deadlands. That sounds really cool
It's pretty neat yeah. The artwork is 👌 as well
It's funny actually, in the two PnPs I like most, Shadowrun and Deadlands, the South does indeed rise again
Few things are cooler than a Cowboy
Shadowrun is a weird game to me. I love the setting, but I've never had an easy time coming up with a character concept for that game.
Really? I come up with so many that more than half become NPCs
I think the best I ever had was an Ork Rigger that got his start as a CSA soldier, then became a PMC, then became a shadowrunner to cut out the middleman.
The problem I had was that I had so much money at character creation that I didn't know what to do with it, but I got the impression that if I took less money, I might not have enough to get what I needed.
My last two characters were a hardworking Ork getaway driver who didn't want his criminal activities to come anywhere near his family and a turbostealth Face. The latter didn't get very far because the DM hated how I kept pure RP running and succeeded basically whatever rolls he asked for (until that dwarf biker gang) but the idea was going to be that he was going through a bit of an identity crisis from years of drugs and having too much fun pretending to be other people
I had a VtM character kind of like that.
The former weirded people out because I insisted on only ever using burner phones
It was a Malkavian that was so paranoid that he'd kind of divorced himself from his own identity.
I never got to play that character though.
Man I kinda wanna reuse that Ork
Couldn't you get around having a legit SIN by keeping at least one fake one that you use primarily?
I didn't even put anything into rigging. He was just this stubbornly old-fashioned dude who insisted on driving manually and I put a ton of dice into that
Basically
And changing your appearance
But anyone who makes any connection can royally fuck you up
It was my compensation for my Face character- the annoyingly sneaky careful character who pretty much couldn't be traced followed up by one of the most vulnerable characters I've played
How does this all happen on a table top game. It sounds as if you are describing a video game.
It depends.
Because it's just pen and paper. You make everything up. The games are very broad
Ok.
Some games use minuatures on a map, some are just descriptive.
Broader than you could feasibly make with modern software without making major sacrifices
It's interactive campfire stories
Ok.
I've never been a big grid and minis guy
Exactly.
Yeah, me neither.