View Single Post
Old 04-07-2019, 03:56 PM   #6
larsdangly
 
Join Date: Dec 2017
Default Re: Best Tool for the Job – When would you use TFT/DFRPG/GDF?

I've played a lot of both TFT and GURPS. While I had a ~10 year period when I played more of the latter than the former, at this point I only think of GURPS when I want to play a campaign that is well suited to relatively realistic treatment of characters, actions, etc. and that is substantially outside of the wheelhouse of classic fantasy gaming. At this point, I think if someone is swinging a sword around and/or casting a spell, TFT is the better game at the the table. Perhaps if you are going to do a super simulationist treatment of a one on one duel I would still go for GURPS, but in any other sort of situation its level of granularity can be a bit much. And I don't like the ways you can 'game' character creation. Dungeon Fantasy could have been something that hit a happy medium for me, but after checking it out I decided the happy medium between TFT and GURPS is just TFT.
larsdangly is offline   Reply With Quote