What do you prefer when playing or running games, /tg/? >Systems

>>55045525
GURPS

File: lewdlyapproved.jpg (130KB, 800x969px) Image search: [Google]

130KB, 800x969px

>>55045525
You just listed my 3 favourites in your first example, so that one.

>>55045525
>Casting while wearing armour

Hope he likes that spell failure chance, because he'll be seeing a lot of it.

>>55048722
The knight is clearly a divine caster, with those golden flames.
Spell failure does not apply to him

>>55045525
>GURPS

>>55045525
>Systems with optional settings but primarily made with focus on the elements of the game rather than the context, allowing you to create your own world and use the system more as a framework than something set in stone
>Systems with absolutely no setting implications nor narrative elements to work with other than the ones you put into, leaving you free to build whatever you want and only use the rules provided

i prefer these

Systems built with a specific setting in mind. That way the feel of the mechanics and the feel of the setting match.

>>55045525
Usually somewhere in the middle of specific setting and framework, but it's nice to have the generic systems if there isn't a good system for a campaign I feel like running.

File: caw of cthulhu.jpg (119KB, 435x435px) Image search: [Google]

119KB, 435x435px

>>55045525
#1 by far for me.

But I disagree with your examples in #2. Cyberpunk has a very detailed setting and the rules fit around it.
Same with Call of Cthulhu; 90% of games are played in the 1920s with very detailed setting info.
D&D is kind of 50/50, a lot of people do make their own settings for it.

I like all 3.

>>55048722
>>55050522
Or he's playing 4 or 5 where "arcane caster in heavy armor" isn't actually hard to do.

>>55056085
This.

If I had to put it in order, it'd be probably 3=2>1.