Reply To: Interesting News From Monolith

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The RPG world is also the place that shows how bad universal rule systems can be when used to make a game conform to the core rules (D20 Call of Cthulluh is so wrong on so many levels for example).

I think the pros and cons of universal systems have been discussed in one of the shows as well.

As such I think using Conans’ mechanics for melee focussed heroics is definitely possible.
You’d lose a lot of the flavour text in the core rules, but one definitely could create a core box with Batman and Conan as ‘expansions’ because the real meat is in the statistics and skills for each hero/villain anyway.

That loss of flavour might bother some people.

The cost of the games is another factor that is going to get trickier with this system in place.
Those who own the core rules of a system will find that adding ‘more’ games is cheap, but if you don’t own the system (or worse : own an ‘old’ version of the core rules) the price advantage dissappears.

This might even result in maps that can be used by both systems, especially if one were to include add-on terrain like the Joker Funhouse map does in Batman.