GURPS

So at least there's one example there.

And I'm assuming GURPS, the universal role playing system, could handle this as well.

But I don't know a ton about adventures or like strong set.

I mean, I feel like Asian cultures, at least Asian cultures kind of built off of Taoism and Buddhism do this better because you can start out as a lowly human and by following the Tao, the way, you can kind of grow in power and reach immortality and become kind of like a sorcerer.

I like Merc's suggestion of merging stars without number and worlds without number.

I think you could also take white box fantasy role playing along with White Star, which is a space opera, which, you know, it's white box, so you could probably push those two together.

And you're right, things like GURPS, maybe Savage Worlds or other systems that allow you for some generic.

I kind of thought about there in some of the comments about its relationship to Cosmic Horror.

Now I kind of see that maybe I was a little blind to some of the other stuff that was going on out there.

Like I always wish I had found GURPS earlier in my career of role-playing games.

I always kind of dismiss GURPS as too complicated.

And that was really before I understood GURPS.

But I wish I had found it earlier.

I probably would have just stayed with that.

And we never really stopped until last year, basically.

So Phase Abandoned got squeezed out.

No wonder he's mad.

Well, actually, so speaking of GURPS again, there was a supplement called Atomic Horror that was intended to be the way to play out the kind of beef movies from the 1950s that I particularly enjoyed.

And so rather than having all these different scientific specializations, like you'd spend points on your character to get a certain level of facility with physics or biology or whatever, there was just one generic category called science exclamation point.

I'm a blinded me by.

And I say, well, I could probably write something that does that equally well.

I could never write another GURPS or Hero or...

I could really not write another Pathfinder either.

Anything where there's a lot of really small interlocking skills and pieces, I probably don't have the attention span to write at this point in my life.

It's just tough talk.

The next Friday night, I snuck back to the office late to make free copies of some tavern maps for a GURPS session I was playing with my mom.

There was something strange about the quiet.

I opened the door to Mayor Joe's office.

It's a white wall.

It has no flavor, right? This is true of GURPS, Hero System, the Cortex, my own RPG that I'm developing, so on and so forth.

However, the freedom to adapt any setting to a generic mechanic set allows for the application of the core rules with a greater deal of flavor that support that setting.

Like, no two GURPS setting books provide the same theme, style, tone of game, or anything like that, even though they share the same root system.

And one of the great benefits of having multiple splat books or setting books using the same set of mechanics is that you can easily mash up genres or

settings.

You could do the Lost Roman Legion in Fairylands if you wanted to, because GURPS has a fairies book, and it has a Roman Empire book, and it even has a, I forget what they call it, Legionnaire or Centurion or something like that type book that got more specifically about the Roman military.

You grab those three books, your main book, and you're set to play Roman Legion Lost in Fairyland.

Would it be more like a meat grinder? I'm like, I'm reading kind of reviews of the system and someone goes, you should probably just play Morkborg instead.

You should probably play GURPS instead.

Oh, my God.

Sure, dude, whatever.

People are so adamant.

Oh, they love telling you how to play GURPS or Morkborg.

But it looks as if people are saying it plays a lot like D&D 5th Edition.

So, I don't know.

Jackson guy as well.

David, someone who could just churn out the GURPS stuff.

And it was always good and it was always on time.

And yeah, there's a few, there's literally one handful, I would say, of games writers out there who are so productive and I will read anything they put out there.