So I've been working on a Pokemon tabletop system for my

>>30913205
Another fa/tg/uy here, and I concur.

Also, unless your players are either familiar with tabletop rpgs or at least the type to understand the rules completely before playing, classes tend to be easier for new players to grasp mechanically

>>30913205
>>30913278
Loose classes that are essentially a collection of abilities to be picked and chosen from like PTU or Classes that give you a strict progression of abilities like D&D?

>>30913374
How new are your players to this kind of thing?

>>30913454
We've played D&D for several years, and tried PTU once.

>>30913482
Personally the PTU one sounds a bit more fun to me, but either works. I think we'd need more details about what was on offer to say more

>>30913113
I think it really depends on what is dragging you down on speed vs. what you feel needs improvement on the lite one.

Since you are mostly building to your group, even if you are introducing a new system, consider if they are going to need to be helped to build a balanced and useful character (lean class) or if they are going to be focused enough building to character concept that no one person is trying to do everything really poorly (go GURPy).

The other part is how long your story is going to run, and how much of that time you are going to spend on character creation. A less rigid system helps for games where you want to pick-up and go right away and maybe you don't need all your skill points decided from the word go. A more rigid system will help you a little if you want to plan your encounters in advance or if people want to know how, exactly, they are progressing the characters.

I really like the idea of skill pyramids where skills have ratings like 'amazing', 'great', 'good', 'okay', 'poor', and 'terrible' And limited number of traits that modify skills in specific moments. Creation wise, you can sketch out the barest details and everything else will fall into place as it matters. This also helps reduce the feeling of wasting a skill if it never comes up in a one-shot story.