Post originally by SteelCaress at 2004-04-13 17:41:56
Converted from Phorums BB System

Ironically, RoleMaster (in all its various incarnations from SpaceMaster to MERP) ran more smoothly than d20 ever has, at least for me. The thing it really needed was nitty gritty all-together-in-the-same-place character creation rules, but once you knew what you were doing it was a snap. Excel spreadsheets pared the process down to 5 minutes.

And, compared to *anything*, Risus is rules-lite. And, in many ways, it's got more in common with truly modern cutting-edge systems than d20, GURPS, HERO 5th, or HARP/RM. By cutting-edge I mean Over the Edge, Wu Shu, Dying Earth, OctaNe, etc.

My money's not on Fudge for a real good system, but I like the way they built FATE from it. FATE is a really good implementation of Fudge.

DISCLAIMER: All of the above is opinion. Feel free to disagree.