Hexnwolf, I confess I am easy to get excited at the prospect of a new generic system :-D My goal is to play Mass Effect, Borderlands and the Magicians with a fitting generic system. There are a couple of generic systems showing up of late. Something intuitive with the right amount of crunch is not always easy to find and the different approaches are legion.

Btw., take a look at openlegendrpg.com, the core rules are free and the approach to use traits to generate effects is very intruiging.

Many told me about the D6 system and are still convinced that SW D6 is the best Star Wars edition to date. Alas, I exclusively played D&D those days. The past month I have discovered Mongoose Traveller 2e as a generic SciFi system for me, it sounds very promising and I could imagine to play a The Expanse kind of game.

The structure of the generic talent trees concerns me as well. One litte point of critisizm regarding FFG SW is the obverloading of career talent trees. Often you have to purchase talents that do not fit to the concept of your char before getting to the meat. 2D20 Conan has an interesting approach in this regard (after all 2D20 is Jay Little as well^^), they tie small talent trees to the skills instead of mixing up talents in the career trees like SW does. Oh, and of course to me one of the important points is how they realize to customize supernatural powers.

I'm wondering who will be the first to post on the forums next Thursday when the first session of the Runebound module is run at GenCon.

That could help answer a lot of questions here.

24 minutes ago, DarthGM said:

I'm wondering who will be the first to post on the forums next Thursday when the first session of the Runebound module is run at GenCon.

That could help answer a lot of questions here.

May the force be with you and quicken your fingers on the keyboard

22 minutes ago, DarthGM said:

I'm wondering who will be the first to post on the forums next Thursday when the first session of the Runebound module is run at GenCon.

That could help answer a lot of questions here.

I'm also hoping that because of that possibility, there will also be a loosening of the NDA you guys (Playtesters) are under, I'm very excited to see your blog post on/about the system and any impressions you'll be allowed to mention.

It's hard enough when I have a good idea for a game I'm running and can't talk about it with my friends who are in the game. I can't imagine how hard it is to see, what basically amounts to a forum of speculation, and having to stay tight lipped about your view of this or that.

My hats off to you, sir... Thank you for it though.

Oh, and a smartphone vid of the GenCon session won't hurt either Okay, don't want to sound greedy.

46 minutes ago, DarthDude said:

May the force be with you and quicken your fingers on the keyboard

Oh it won't be me; I'll be running the morning and the afternoon sessions, and will likely want FOOD after that.

43 minutes ago, DarthDude said:

Oh, and a smartphone vid of the GenCon session won't hurt either Okay, don't want to sound greedy.

That...I might have to check with FFG on that one but that might be a possibility...

27 minutes ago, DarthGM said:

Oh it won't be me; I'll be running the morning and the afternoon sessions, and will likely want FOOD after that.

Well deserved, sir, well deserved, that will be! I wished I could have a sneak peek but the distance is sadly too long for just a quicks trip overseas

27 minutes ago, DarthGM said:

That...I might have to check with FFG on that one but that might be a possibility...

And highly appreciated by a bunch of eager Genesys enthusiasts to be, for sure

2 hours ago, Hexnwolf said:

It's hard enough when I have a good idea for a game I'm running and can't talk about it with my friends who are in the game. I can't imagine how hard it is to see, what basically amounts to a forum of speculation, and having to stay tight lipped about your view of this or that.

I wouldn't want to be in their shoes for sure, it would kill me to see all those musings and diverse speculations going in a myriad different dircetions and keep the knowledge to myself

2 hours ago, Hexnwolf said:

It's hard enough when I have a good idea for a game I'm running and can't talk about it with my friends who are in the game. I can't imagine how hard it is to see, what basically amounts to a forum of speculation, and having to stay tight lipped about your view of this or that.

My hats off to you, sir... Thank you for it though.

You have no bloody idea.

And you're welcome.

On 8.8.2017 at 9:50 PM, DarthGM said:

You have no bloody idea.

And you're welcome.

Maybe I can entice some supurficial statement from you. A simple Yes or No would do fine^^

Okay, to my question, if there is one setting I'd love to play as a pen and paper, it would be Mass effect. Would you say, one could easily emulate Biotics with the present Genesys beta rules out of the box without any hacking? A yes or no would completely suffice, I do not want any details on the mechanics

Now, I only played Mass Effect (the original) once, and that was as a Soldier. Never got a chance to play the Biotics from the Main Character perspective.

That being said; I see no reason why Genesys couldn't handle a Mass Effect game.

2 hours ago, DarthGM said:

That being said; I see no reason why Genesys couldn't handle a Mass Effect game.

So...Genesys can handle Biotics. That's promising.

1 minute ago, DarthDude said:

So...Genesys can handle Biotics. That's promising.

Biotics...magic...what's the dif, really?

Just now, DarthGM said:

Biotics...magic...what's the dif, really?

Very true. Superman's flighing ability is not really very different to the spell fly (with permanency as exception). Magic missile just with some other descriptor could pose as a biotic attack. If there's a toolbox for creating spells, you can use them for every kind of setting.

On 8/10/2017 at 7:59 AM, DarthGM said:

Now, I only played Mass Effect (the original) once, and that was as a Soldier. Never got a chance to play the Biotics from the Main Character perspective.

That being said; I see no reason why Genesys couldn't handle a Mass Effect game.

Given there's been at least a couple shots at Mass Effect using just the EotE rules that worked fairly well, the system could handle Mass Effect long before it was even close to being "completed" with having all three core rulebooks printed.