Veeky Forums I've been searching for systems for a long time but nothing I've tried works. So I'm gonna ask you before I give up and homebrew. I'm looking for a system that has the following things:
1. Either a focus on, or suited for dungeon crawling.
2. Modern or near future, not medieval fantasy.
3. Combat that resolves quickly and is dangerous without being too bullshit.
So, GURPS Pulp Adventures, FATEs' Spirit of the Century updated to modern, or WoD core (none of the monster splats).
>dungeon crawling
>modern or near future
u wot m8?
Ancient ruins, secret and undiscovered cultures in the Amazon....you know, pulp hero stuff.
Gurp's combat system is too complex and takes too long to complete for me. I'm doing this Play by post so 5 turns to resolve a combat action is nearly a whole week. So unless pulp adventures severely cuts back the system, I don't think gurps will work.
I'll look up WoD. Chronicles of darkness or an older version?
FATE...isn't that mostly a story telling system with sort of ephemeral mechanics?
Actually more like hotline Miami in Kowloon. Or that new Dredd movie.
Spirit of the Century or Savage Worlds imo.
you literally described D20:Modern
amazing system btw
>D20:Modern
>The game uses the d20 System and Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 edition rules.
>DnD
Are you sure that this will fulfill the third qualification? Because DnD combat tends to be a horrendous slog.
>Because DnD combat tends to be a horrendous slog.
IF YOUR A FUCKING FAGGOT
It's just not a quick system. Every fight I've seen with it takes like an hour or more.
learn to play correctly then kiddo.
Ok. How many rounds does an average combat encounter last?
He's trolling you. d20 Modern is universally derided as one of the worst systems, even among d20 kind.
Just go with Savage Worlds if Fate is too narrative.
Although, giving some hacks of Fate or PbtA a read would be a good idea imo, they aren't that far off from less narrative focused games, despite what people would have you believe.
Ok. I've got SW downloading and I'll look into the PbtA engine.
Thank you.
>Just go with Savage Worlds or Fate
>talks shit about worst systems
those are reddit systems
>Namefag
>Buzzwords
Like 3 or 4 at most.
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>Just go with Savage Worlds if Fate is too narrative.
they are both horrible if you want to run interesting combat as both have no differentiation at all when it comes to combat mechanics.
Disregard the retards, DnD 3.5 runs fine if you're not mentally challenged.
Otherwise look at Dark Heresy or any of the W40k Systems, or the Warhammer Fantasy RPG .
uuummm, how about no? im kenny_O, and i think you need to stfu nerd.
>they are both horrible if you want to run interesting combat as both have no differentiation at all when it comes to combat mechanics.
Somewhat true for Fate (although narrative positioning is important), but SW characters have access to all kinds of stuff.
Also, dungeon crawling games are usually about avoiding combat, having lots of combat mechanics runs counter to that.
Also the games you recommend have even worse combat options and OP is looking for non-fantasy games.
Also there's no way you aren't trolling.
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You're a namefag, and therefore automatically of no consequence.
5 turns isn't all that much. It would be a matter of minutes on the tabletop, which is what most systems will probably be geared towards.
I think you need something rules-light.
If you think that SW combat mechanics allow mechanical variation you must be literally retarded.
Also, Dungeon Crawling Games generally are interpreted in 2 ways:
>The oldschool variant where it's more about being clever with meta knowledge within a context of exploration and combat avoidance.
This variant does not care at all about what system you use as GM fiat will be more important than the rules anway, so I assume he means :
>The "newschool" variant where it's about solving mechanical combat puzzles by having encounters primarily built to provide a challenging obstacle rather than deriving them from mechanics.
You need a mechanically diverse system to run the latter or every player will always ever make the same 3 fucking rolls for the rest of the game. So you would have to be an utterly fucktarded ass-goblin to recommend a "narrative" system like FATE or SW.
So go hang yourself, you faggot.
I am not Strike-user, but I will suggest Strike!
Think if someone took 4e and streamlined it to be a 1d6 system, then took it a step further and made it a generic universal game. Everyone says it's more complex than it is because the book has shitty organization, but the underlying system is at least worth a look.
>This variant does not care at all about what system you use as GM fiat will be more important than the rules anway, so I assume he means :
I don1t agree with this definition, but even if I did... So you want a system that doesn't get in the way. Like SW or Fate, or something even lighter. Definitely not those bloated games in>You need a mechanically diverse system to run the latter or every player will always ever make the same 3 fucking rolls for the rest of the game.
Making the same rolls doesn't make tactics different (you also don't, in SW you can have powers even on top of the built in things like Test of Will and shit), the effects of those rolls is where tactics come from.
There's also better games for that, such as
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