While Dunder Moose talked Braunstein the other night, Rollin' Bones did a breakdown on a RPG ruleset.
The point of doing an analysis is to see if the product under the scope is fit for purpose.
Far too many products that present themselves as Tabletop Adventure Games are not. Separate and distinct from being surplus to requirements (which is over 90% of what is on the shelves), so much that is there is not able to deliver what it claims because it is dysfunctional. Maybe it is due to the technical writing being dogshit. Maybe the design is bad. Maybe it's both. (It's often both.)
The need to sift out bad product is necessary going forward as the Collapse hits and progresses through to its conclusion.
I agree 100% and this something that took me years to figure out. Reading Jeffro's posts about GURPS was instructive.
ReplyDeleteYou should do some posts analyzing various RPGs as to whether they're fit for purpose as "Tabletop Adventure Games." (I sometimes call them "Fantasy Adventure Games," but that name has an unfortunate acronym.)