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Re: [RPG]: CthulhuTech, reviewed by C.W.Richeson (4/3)

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Originally Posted by Arkat View Post
Good review. But my taste in crunch differs from yours. For me the mechanics in CTech was a plesant surprise. I bought the game because the setting and premise intrigued me, but I never expected a mecha game to have rules I would ever consider running. But I could run CTech! What you find bland, I find unified and easy to implement. Even mecha combat would be easy to run! That is a first for me.
That makes a lot of sense. I remember playing Battletech with my friends back when and being sad that it took so much work to get the game going. Mecha haven't gotten a very good treatment from some games in terms of rules accessibility.
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