Flockaducks. I had a nice beefy reply written, then the browser went pif and it vanished. The only part I care about enough to recreate is that I hate resource ranks and love book-keepy combat, but D&D character creation is like trying to draw with three "designer color" ballpoints (purple, pink, and teal,) a greenish-yellow highlighter, and a stick of charcoal, while BESM is like a nice fat pack of Crayolas (the 64-color box, frex) with many options and many ways to blend them into the shade you want even if they are a bit blunt, and the benchmark (for gaming, that's Mekton Zeta Plus for me) being a 128-color set of finely-sharpened colored pencils.
You can make ANYTHING in Mekton, from a pistol that fires Nuclear Bullets with a 2m blast radius (and is ridiculously cheap, being at the top of the MZ+ Abuse List) to Tupperware, a mountain (complete with wildlife and a spring-fed waterfall,) or a banana creme pie. I've heard similar things about GURPS only in even more detail, but never found the GURPS core rulebook for sale at the same time I had disposable funds. Either that, or perhaps my Resource rank is just too low for my Contacts to even bother offering it. Or something. Maybe I should put some UPs in Logistics or Blackmarket?
- CD, prays daily for access to his Character menu and its tabs
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
You can make ANYTHING in Mekton, from a pistol that fires Nuclear Bullets with a 2m blast radius (and is ridiculously cheap, being at the top of the MZ+ Abuse List) to Tupperware, a mountain (complete with wildlife and a spring-fed waterfall,) or a banana creme pie. I've heard similar things about GURPS only in even more detail, but never found the GURPS core rulebook for sale at the same time I had disposable funds. Either that, or perhaps my Resource rank is just too low for my Contacts to even bother offering it. Or something. Maybe I should put some UPs in Logistics or Blackmarket?
- CD, prays daily for access to his Character menu and its tabs
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows