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Game WISH wants to know three games I might use to get people started roleplaying.
Well, depends on the people, and depends on the venue. (Yay hey, feeling wishy-washy today.) For a play-by-email, I would be strongly tempted not to use a system at all; the point is to get people coming up with characters they want to write about, and giving them situations to write about them in. I would probably outline the genre and setting and turn ’em loose (with Everway-style questions, if necessary) to write me descriptions.
Face-to-face gaming… For a new female gamer, I’d probably pick Trollbabe for its quick mechanics and unabashedly chainmail-bikiniless outlook. If the restrictive character creation (in Trollbabe, you are a trollbabe; you have no choice in the matter) doesn’t appeal, I’d go for Everway. Everway would also be my choice for a visually-oriented gamer, as the art (not to mention the possibilities for adding more art) is spectacular, and vital to the game.
Everway also has hooks for New Age types, of course, and I think it particularly suited to the novice gamer because of the non-crunchy but still very detailed and above all interesting process of character creation.
Some people do like crunch, though. I don’t typically play with them, but there you have it. For them, GURPS Lite would probably be my pick. But I’d rather turn them on to Warhammer; that way I can play with people who are more my speed.
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