<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=72345.msg3246298#msg3246298">Quote from: HairyHeretic on 05-07-2010, 22:15:36</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=74457.0 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=74457.0)<br/><br/>Hunters Club OOC thread up. Further discussion, sex, drugs and music with rocks in it thataways.<br/><br/>On a separate note, anyone interested in kicking around a simplified ruleset. I have a few ideas on running The City of Lies this way, but I don't want to traumatise anyone who isn't a system gamer :) Most of the rules, such as they would be, would go into establishing the character, and what they were capable off. A single roll could add a random element of luck.<br/><br/>The reason I'm looking at this rather than pure freeform is that the City of Lies is a campaign set. That means the players have to solve problems, find out things, and probably engage in a few fights. Simply deciding that your young bushi knows the Scorpion master courtier is lying .. it just won't work, you know? Because the GM needs to know if they are lying or not. And if you have a chance to tell, given respective skill levels.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I'm sorry to keep going on about Urban's system but what I love about it is that if die rolls are needed, he does them, so the players just post freeform style (not even describing in any huge detail what they are doing in a combat necessarily) and he posts responses of what the opponents are doing again as freefrom posts, no results of what the players did are given unless they are obvious (severe wounds, death etc). It feels really neat and flows really fast and the players don't even need to know the system (though of course they would need to know the universe... :( )<br/><br/>I think a Rokugan game jointly GMd by you and Urban and using something fairly simple like this would be fantastic. Urban's feudal China part of his Past Lives game should be a somewhat similar setting so I'm guessing Urban knows a fair bit of the general social order that would exist in Rokugan. I know when I joined your other game you gave me links to some rulebooks online, so in the worst case players could at least get at them to read these.