I used to hold that exact same opinion. Then I read Clean, simple, quick, and flexible -- all in one package. (Yes, I'm the marketing guy. But I was a GURPShead long before I worked for the company.)I should mention that I also design what the publisher asks me to design! * For GURPS Vehicles, managing editor Loyd Blankenship wrote on my contract 'let's make this a complexity freak's wet dream!'

And so I obliged. Other Vehicles-related books were supposed to be compatible, so they shared that complexity.

Anyway, there's an old BESM 2nd Edition module called Cute and Fuzzy Seizure Monsters. This gives some nice tips on running these campaigns. Although, I wouldn't endorse using it word for word. As for systems that work. We used BESM 3rd edition. It's full of HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE oversights in balance, but it's simple. Pet Monster Trainer. Sentai Member. Shadow Warrior. Power Templates. ThE Third EdiTion. BESM Third Edition presents the most recent version of the. Tri-Stat System, the game engine used to power all of your anime action.

* For BESM 2nd edition (and the first edition system Big Robots, Cool Starships) Mark more or less let me select my own level of complexity, which I did. * For BESM 3rd edition, Mark wanted *more* complexity and some compatibility with the more-complex Silver Age Sentinels/dX system, while my goal was to release a cleaned-up 2nd edition. Mark won, and it got a more complex, though with more options as well. * For GURPS Spaceships, I wanted something that was very, very fast to use, but still comprehensive and realistic, and SJ Games agreed that should be a priority We sacrificed some customizability in the process, but produced a system that seems to have the right level of detail for many people. I have no particular love of cube roots or whatever.

Usually in the GURPS 4e design process, I was the guy saying 'simplify this!' Some time in the not to distance future, I hope to release some game designs of my own. Last edited by David L. Pulver; at 06:04 PM.

Reason: typo. I'm actually playing in a BESM 3e game right now; the main improvement over 2e is the rebalancing of different powers so dynamic sorcery no longer dominates everything else, although 1st session bosses still need about 500 hp to be viable.

I find it to be a pretty good game, although I do resent it slightly for making the BESM GM boycott any WW product because he blames WW for the collapse of Guardians of Order.I ran a BESM3 game over the summer, and I never found that my bosses needed 500hp to be viable. And I was running a 300-point game! While I understand the complaints about BESM3, I don't really agree with most of them. The major problems with the game are the same problems you get with any pure point-buy game: coming up with a character concept is even tougher than normal, since you have so many options; and balance is an issue if you have one or two players who are more interested in breaking the system than playing the game.

GM oversight fixes the latter, and a little guidance (possibly in the form of templates) helps a lot with the former. Jeremy Puckett. I ran a BESM3 game over the summer, and I never found that my bosses needed 500hp to be viable. And I was running a 300-point game! Jeremy PuckettThis was pretty much inevitable in BESM 2e as well.

Huawei Mobile Connect Ec321 Driver Download there. At about the time players acquire about 400 points, you can expect bosses to have thousands of hit points. Bump Of Chicken Jupiter Rar 320 Kbps Dubstep here. Unfortunately, the system doesn't really handle player characters and enemies built identically unless the players are encouraged to put a lot of points into defenses, but that tends to lead to a boring game in which the entire plot resolves around trying to penetrate crazy defensive shields. (which is sort of like genre emulation, but leads to bad results when the enemy succeeds in breaking the player's defense.

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And we laugh heartily and zoom off to infinity side by side. Good Trades with: J.R. Henderson (he got his stuff at any rate), Reidzilla, Allen (x2), Eric E., Varangian, Steve Dubya,Kevlyn and Domino Catch me on World of Tanks in the Hoplite Clan either as 'Dammit_Carl,' [Soviet, Chinese] or 'Roy_Orbison, [German, French, American]' and as 'Dammit_Carl,' on Steam probably playing War Thunder [can field Tier 1-3 at this point]. So Far so good, although char gen too FOREVER due to the complex system once the characters are up and going you end up with something that matches what you vision of the character was.This is why I love BESM 3rd so much.

Yeah character creation takes a while (but not much longer than creating D&D characters takes me) but at the end of it I have a character that almost perfectly matches my character concept. That is extremely important to me, and it's why BESM is my go-to system for anything I want to play that I don't think will need a specialised system to pull it off. Personally, I purchased it second hand from someone who just didn't get the rules and found the whole 3rd ed too daunting.only to find that I just didn't get the rules and found the whole 3rd ed. Too daunting.so I sold it to someone else, who took a look at it and told me 'I see what you mean'.

I don't know how a system that was originally designed to be so simple and freewheeling can have enough crap added to it to make it a 300+ page monster and still retain it's original goals.Any chance you've heard from them that it isn't their bag either, and they're looking to sell? I've been looking around for a hardcover copy of BESM 3rd for a while, and not being interested in buying the PDF version I haven't had much luck.

Any chance you've heard from them that it isn't their bag either, and they're looking to sell? I've been looking around for a hardcover copy of BESM 3rd for a while, and not being interested in buying the PDF version I haven't had much luck.As with others, I also had no luck finding a hard copy. So, I bought the PDF and printed myself a copy of the book at Kinkos.

Cost about $15 at the time, and the PDF version cost less then the hard copy, so it all evened out. Sure it's not in color, but that's a small price to pay. On a side note, is there a forum dedicated for BESM that I can't find? I've made a character sheet and I want to give it away.