How "flexible" is 5E for other genres?

>>54296616
Well DMG has rules for modern weapons and one time I ran a post apocaliptic game in it, with normal races being replaced with all kind of mutants

>>54296616
It is not. At all.

>>54296641
Was it good?

>>54296616
Just learn another system you lazy fuck.

>>54296616
Play GURPS.

>>54296659
Yeah, used homebrew port of Gamma world to 5e

(Greatest advantage for me was the fact I didn't need to teach group all the mechanics all over, because they were quite new at the time)

>>54296616

As long as your building characters out of the PHB to work as a small-scale strike team who's out to clean out some "adventure zone," get stuff, and get back out in pursuit of wealth and additional power it works fine regardless of what coat of paint you give it.

The problem is that if you work away from that style of play it's worse than useless.

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>>54296616
DnD isn't even a good game for it's own intentioned genre, why the fuck would you use it for anything else?

>>54296984
Of fuck off

>>54296616
It's alright. I'm currently running a futuristic campaign set in the 2200's. Just good ol' planet Earth. Except with elves and dragons and shit.

>>54296616
Not even a little bit.

It does not have the intentional blanket-system-factor of the SRD and 3e

It does not have the fluff-crunch-seperation allowing for seamless refluff of 4e.

It's good for what it's good for, but it's not the "generic" system you've been used to D&D being for the past almost-2-decades.

>>54296712
But GURPS is spergy dogshit. Play Savage Worlds. Or Fate. Anything but fucking GURPS.

>>54297131
Confirmed for knowing nothing about GURPS.

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>>54297131
>GURPS SUCKS
>FATE is good

>>54296616
Why would you run 5e for anything? It's shit.

>>54296616
Depends on how you define "flexible".
If you mean "does other settings as well as it does its own", then it's very flexible.
If you mean "does other settings well", then it's extremely inflexible.

>>54296616
D&D is pretty rigid even in terms of what kind of fantasy it does

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>>54297586
Not that guy, but GURPS is pretty shit. GURPS lacks a mechanical identity. By being utterly generic, there isn't anything that really makes GURPS good for anything besides a "I literally can't find a good system to run this" system. And even then, there are better games for it.

>>54297978
lol

>>54297994
Right back at ya, man.

>>54298029
lol

>>54297978
The point of GURPS is to lack a mechanical identity. 90% of all rules presented are designed to be optional, to GIVE it a mechanical identity. The base system is literally just "3d6, roll under skill plus modifiers, damage is always a number of d6's". Anything more than that is optional rules.