Chaotic Neutral posted:

Running an internet 4e game soon, roughly based on Fire Emblem but with more of a classic D&D spin. Woo. That's all great, but the problem is that skills have left me wanting in a big way, and there were several times when I was doing extended non-combat sessions where I really wished I had something to fall back on.

So I'm thinking about doing just that. Yeah, two systems is extra overhead for all involved, but the players are all quite familiar with 4e and sharp enough to handle it, I think.

Question is, does such a mythical system exist that:
- can flexibly handle a variety of non-combat situations,
- won't suffer horribly upon having combat systems mostly ignored,
- and won't impose additional overhead and wackiness when combat is going on?

Super bonus points if it can also handle group management - I can always wedge in REIGN Companies, too, but three systems miiiight be pushing the limits of overhead, even though I suspect I have a couple players who would love the idea.

I am probably dreaming beyond practicality, here, but drat it it's worth a try.

BattleMaster posted:

Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever made a system that tries to capture the feel of a Japanese console RPG? There's the fan-made Final Fantasy one but as I recall it was a design-by-committee mess of mismatched mechanics.

Captain Walker posted:

Ruleset: Crunchy
Support: User-Generated
Chargen: Involved
Setting: Universal
Demands: Potentially Unreasonable

My pipe dream is a game based on the Persona series, where your character's special abilities in combat are derived from an anime monster you summon from the ~sea of your soul~ or whatever. Since Personae are strengthened by interactions with PCs and NPCs the game would seem to work really, really well in a * World hack with all the relationship stats...but * World games are too fiction-based, to the degree such a thing is possible. Ditto FATE I want to take all the crunch that a game like D&D uses for character building, magic item management, etc. and cram it all into in Persona creation and leveling, so that your actual character becomes fairly low-maintenance, leaving you free to dick around investigating until the bad guys show up and you switch to roll-playing.

Am I going to have to write this game I want to play from scratch? Is there, at the very minimum, a system to use as a starting point? I see a lot of lovely games on DriveThruRPG that claim to be the next coming of Gygax, only for anime games/JRPG-style games/whatever and they invariably aren't when I pick them up.

Ceetee posted:

inklesspen posted:

Dunno about the combat lethality (I think it's adjustable, so maybe?) but otherwise Reign is exactly what you want.

hectorgrey posted:

Dungeon world is a really good one for newbies, both to play and to GM.

Kwyndig posted:

Okay, so I figured out this afternoon that I want to play Aberrant again... except I'd rather not use its janky rear end broken system. So recommend me some good supers systems that aren't four colors.