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If you imagine your perfect session of an RPG, what does it look like to you? What game? What campaign? How many participants? How long is the session? What is the "breakdown" between time spent in combat, exploring, roleplaying with NPCs, PCs interacting, players fooling around, wtc..? And...

As I understand it, GURPS Dungeon Fantasy was/is pretty successful.

that you personally wouldn't use either does not in any way mean those games can't do supers. Both have perfectly usable Supers specific books and subsystems -- even if some other games do supers better.

Well, you can do different things with those to games. Both can do any genre if we consider genre only to be trappings, but both are limited if you consider genre to include tone and style. And that's to say nothing of actual gameplay genres.

Star Wars is 10 different genres, just in the Clone Wars series alone. If you can't make Star Wars work in whatever system you prefer, I would suggest you aren't thinking it through.

The best part is that anyone can use their preferred system to play a Star Wars campaign.

A hill I will die on: Star Wars is the most gamable setting ever.

I wonder what the uptake is for new, different games. that is, I wonder how many people try a different game and decide to switch to it, versus going back to their old stand by (D&D or otherwise). Like, if I wasn't specifically teaching D&D (by request) to my new group of millenial players, I...

IDKWNTHT but your use of big, cumbersome, undefined acronyms is a PITA.

Based on my experience, folks who have a good experience with a new game at a con are MUCH more likely to spend money on that game (either at the con or shortly thereafter, while the fun is a fresh memory) than they are to spend extra money on whatever game they usually play and purchase for.

I sometimes think of things like the trans continental railroad was completed during the American Civil War, and it reminds me that wars do not stop the world from turning. Even now, for eample, Ukrainian game devs keep working on their games, and there are people engaged in various kinds of...

Two way ignore might be the limit for me.

Savage Worlds is still an ongoing game system with lots of support. Mythras is still active, I believe, and I assume we would put true toolkits like Cortex Prime in the same category.

House systems have been around since the early days of the hobby.

Sure, but that was never a claim or the question. The question was whether YOU, when looking to use a generic system, have setting you like to test the system against because that setting pretty well covers your preferences in a way that tells you whether the system will work for you.

Both of those things have dealing with the war as the primary focus of the narratives.

There is an interesting question: if something is easily hackable (Shadowdark, say) does that mean it is a generic or universal system? I don't think so. I think it just means that the core of the system has flexibility of presentation built into it.

Oh, sure, but many a good thread has been killed by a 2 poster sniping war.

it seems obvious on its face that all universal or generic systems have built in limitations. That hardly seem controversial, and therefore not really worth derailing the thread over.