Reply To: Nightfall Games announce The Terminator RPG

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@wfgdrmr you said yourself that rank 4 skills are (supposed to be) rare.
That means that your standard skill ranges are 1-3 (technically 0-3 including unskilled)
statwise you may have 0-6, but when you say that 2 = ‘average’ and 4 dice total tends to get you a lot of successes quickly you can’t go far beyond ‘normal’ if you want to be ‘average’. The quickstart kind of proves that.

Tammy Hardsnip is stat 2 across the board … not that much different from the beat cop the team meet in the first act. It’s almost as the game wants to say that you’re not going to survive as a team unless 90% is some kind of alien/mutant monster.

To me this says that the rules are set up for a team of supers/elites vs even tougher monsters. Not exactly noir horror, but more 80’s low budget action movie splatter fests and most definitely not something that matches what Terminator should feel like as the system doesn’t feel like it can do subtle.

I hope the quickstart for the Terminator game can prove me wrong, but I am not super impressed with the things this system can do.
Is SLA really the only system that has used this so far ?