one essence of modernity is orthogonality, i.e. the ability to decompose things on separate axises and then recombine them in other patterns. This is how AD&D treats race & class. Mixing modernity w fantasy is wrong Basic D&D had it right with elf, etc as class Change my mind
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Conversely, an engine like GURPS - where everything (attributes / skills / physical & social handicaps) in commensurable - is the right approach for science fiction, where the tone is one of hyper-modernity, and everything is tradeable / fungible / rationalized cc
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You're going to LOVE my (optional) rules for the Aristillus RPG, which combines the point system from GURPS with the character history system from Traveler. (not even joking)
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