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While hardly able to be an influence at the time, I've thought for a while now that TFT would be pretty good for something like Game of Thrones (the tv show, I haven't read the books). It has decent mechanical support for playing someone with absolutely no combat inclination at all who is still very useful, and since combat is very dangerous that may be a good choice for survival anyway.

Because death is never far away when getting into combat, all fights feel more important, there are very few throwaway fights where it doesn't feel like one side is in danger at all. Being very experienced does not mean you are close to invulnerable either, and being ambushed by crossbowmen will probably spell your doom even if you are a great fighter. Plus TFT has built in a dichotomy between heavily armored but slower fighters and agile unarmored ones.

Lots of characters may die, but it is very easy to make a new character and get back into the thick of things, emulating somewhat the large cast of characters of Game of Thrones.