Mouse Guard - Was I wrong?

[demonground]

For those of you who aren’t locals down here in Wellington, I draw your attention to Luke’s Actual Play session of Mouse Guard - http://grandexperiment.livejournal.com/19325.html

I own a copy of the pdf with a physical copy winging its way to me at some point (!?!). After my first

Comments

[mashugenah]

Don't be too persuaded - Luke's a great seller of games that he's currently enthused about. :) I recall the fuss he made when nWOD came out - a game he'll have nothing to do with now (and rightly so, it's a terrible game from the ground up. But still... there was that initial hard sell. :) )

FWIW, I am interested to try MG, but like you, I find the mechanics of story/indie games more intrusive than helpful, and Luke's not quite persuaded me that in MG they're less annoying than in any other game of similar ilk.

[demonground]

Shame you don't live up this way, Mash, as otherwise I'd invite you around for a test session (my wife, Emma, would be keen to play).

[grandexperiment]

I agree proof's in the pudding. MG is proving itself to me but you need to play it to determine whether it works for you.

As to nWoD, I disagree that is a terrible game from the ground up. I think it is one of the best designed traditional RPGs to date. My beef with it, and the reason I won't go near it, is that all of the splats were universally disappointing to me and ultimately destroyed what I liked about the core rules.

[demonground]

A little off topic - but I really like the feeling of nWoD... a little more horror, with a little less brooding and angst.

Not so impressed with the rehashed formula it uses in game structure, however. Then I've no actually ever played it!

Then again I wouldn't listen to me too much, my idea of an adequate game system is BRP :P