Toa píše:
it just didn't feel "SoIaF-esque" to me, especially compared to the old game. Which is kind of sad, considering I was looking forward to it, since it wasn't d20. Don't get me wrong, it still looks good - but it looks kind of generic to me.The system is a D6 pool system where you add all the dice together. There are bonus dice, which are rolled in addition to the regular dice, but you only get to keep as many dice as you would have rolled without them. With penalty dice you drop dice out of the total after rolling, starting with the lowest (after accounting for bonus dice).

Old Scratch píše:
The dice system works as Toa describes, although there is a "Destiny" resource which is essentially WFRP's Fate points. It does work for this game, and there's an element where you spend them to buy Qualities, but I'm not sure what they do.I disagree with Toa though. The game feels "ASoIaF" enough to me. A smallish list of skills & stats mixed together as abilities. I like this. What I don't like is that there doesn't seem to be any room for making your own skills. Most glaringly, at least from the Quick Start Rules, there's no rules for beliefs or House Mottos or the like. This is the biggest letdown.Combat and the conflict resolution system is fairly streamlined and clean. They keep a little bit of the full & partial actions, although they've vastly simplified them. I'd prefer if they had chosen a different approach, but it works. The Intrigue rules are interesting. They seem to be descendents of Burning Wheel's Duel of Wits, but take a slightly different approach. It's worth discussing a bit. You've got your Abilities, like Persuasion 3 (Charm2b) which means you roll five dice but keep the highest three. These are then tested against the rival's defense which is Awareness + Cunning + Status + Context, so around 8 to 15. The person's disposition complicates your efforts, and so you roll your dice and try to beat their Defense, modified for Disposition. There are overall approaches: deception or persuasion and both offer different modifiers based on a person's disposition. You use different techniques in an exchange, like Bargain, Charm, or Intimidate, and others can chime in with an Assist. There are a few cool tactical options there. There is a roleplay element, although this boils down to a few bonuses or penalties and beliefs don't seem to plug in unless they figure as some sort of quality (which isn't really covered in the quick start rules). There is a brief mention of setting aside the roleplaying if it doesn't suit the player. When a person's "Composure", or their Intrigue Hit Points are gone they are defeated, can yield and try to compromise, or they can use some Destiny points, the latter of which is costly because those Destiny points are spent forever in this case.So overall, the Intrigue system is cool... but I think like the rest of the game it suffers from a lack of beliefs/values/motives/desires/passions for characters that allow them to manipulate a situation. That's the only thing I'm concerned about.The rest of it, so far, seems like a pretty cool and capable system which *seems* to do a decent job of emulating the genre material. Note, I haven't played it yet, only read the Quick Start rules and haven't mastered the game by any means, so I'm just giving initial impressions.So far, it looks as good if not better than GOO's AGoT rpg. It's a fairly streamlined, clean and intuitive set of rules, and while there are a few games that seem even more tailor made for AGoT, so far, this one seems to do a pretty good job with the material. I don't think Green Ronin has let us down, although there are a few things that I would have liked to have seen integrated into the game.EDIT: Oh yeah... the adventure. Not much there. A few generated PCs in the back without much tension or drama between them. The adventure is more of a sliver of an encounter and not particularly tied to the world or the themes of the world. It's apparently a small prologue to the forthcoming adventure.

smathis píše:
SIFRP was my raison d'etre for going to Free RPG Day. But I'll have to chime in that I was underwhelmed by the Quickstart Rules. The production value looks nice. I'll give them that. They're going for a grittier, darker look. And I think that fits.But the rules themselves have almost convinced me to take a pass on this one.The rules appear to take a nod to a few systems. The dice mechanic itself reminds me a little of tSoY (1st edition), although I'll go ahead and say that I like the way SIFRP handles bonus/penalty dice better.The Intrigue mechanics are in a similar vein to Burning Wheel. Though it strikes me that the designers ripped the crunch out of BW but I'm unsure whether they have a system that captures the drama of BW. Which, in my opinion, is what SIFRP needed over crunch.Beyond that, the lion's share of the mechanics reminded me of a d6 iteration of d20 with serial numbers changed to protect the innocent.So we have a really, really crunchy game. On par with Burning Wheel, I'd guesstimate. And I'd say a bit more complex overall than 3e and 4e.I'm not saying that's a bad thing. And I'd gather that there are a LOT of GRRM fans out there who are screaming "Huzzah" at reading that.But I was hoping for a system that was a little more...accessible.As it is, I don't know if I'd use this system for Song of Ice and Fire. I can't see putting the effort into learning a new system with rules crunch on par with something produced in the late '80s for what few benefits I see it giving.I mean, I don't see these rules bringing anything more or better to the table than a low-magic, grit-turned-up variant of 4e.It's really inspired me to get the SIFRP Campaign Guide (instead of the Campaign Guide and Core Book) and track down a copy of Hero's Banner.So, I guess I didn't like it...