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Hey /tg/ got perhaps a strange question, I have a craving for weird party combinations and settings. I was wondering if there was a system and/or setting that allowed odd mix ups of groups. Like one player being a gun wielding cowboy while another could be a wizard and someone else a private eye from the 50s. That kind of stuff. Please don't say GURPs.
>>43998327
D20 with multiple corebooks.
Don't expect it to be balanced though
>>43998327
>one player being a gun wielding cowboy while another could be a wizard and someone else a private eye from the 50s
>Please don't say GURPs
Why not GURPS? GURPS is easy. Look at your skill/ability score, add/subtract any modifiers and roll under. That's it.
You seriously don't need to use those silly books from 3rd Edition, which force you to grab a calculator, so you can balance your starship's power's usage, speed, mass and cost.
Look up skill. Add modifier. Roll under.
Read splatbooks to cherrypick rules which you deem cool. Player does something you didn't cherrypick/written yourself? It's time to improvise, something which probably every DM ever has to do at some point.
>>43999135
Behold the GURPS player. He tempts the unwary, he lists so many features.
But never in his instructions does he say 'Have fun'. He knows that is the one thing his system can never provide.
>>43998327
I would personally use Fate for something like that, but it's not to everyone's tastes.
>>43998471
which is sorta why I haven't done that. I'd like balance and everyone feeling useful.
>>43999135
Don't like GURPS. It CAN do it, probably, but doesn't mean it does it well.
>>43999155
I chuckled, I'll give you that.
>>43999201
Maybe Savage Worlds then?
>>43999135
I'd do freestyle rather than GURPS. It's basically the same thing. If a rulebook can't provide enjoyable crunch or enjoyable narrative rules that substitute crunch, then the rulebook is worthless.
Such as GURPS.
>>43998327
I don't know, man. You just described a book on my shelf called "Tales From the Floating Vagabond".
That shit gets ridiculous.
>>43999256
>provide enjoyable crunch
Fun is subjective.
>>43998327
>I need a really wacky party guys
>I want gunslingers and wizards and private eyes
>please don't suggest the system that was created specifically to tailor to this kind of setting
mkay
>>43999343
It is the same line of reasoning of
>I would like a fantasy RPG but I don't like D&D
>"Tsk, you pretentious prick"
Just because your precious system can do anything doesn't mean everyone has to accept to use it for anything.
