@Collective said in Urban Fantasy System Poll:
First: OH my god, yes, please. I totally get the love for WoD/CoD stuff, but I can't get into it, really. It is as much its own genre as D&D and there are some stories that just don't work in the * of Darkness as a genre.
Second: Cinematic Unisystem gets my vote for the following reasons:
- It's fast and simple to resolve. Attribute+skill+/-modifier vs a target number of 9, with exceptional successes for higher numbers.
Uh? There isn't a target number for dice rolls in the Cinematic Unisystem. It just adds the result of all the dice rolled and gives you 'success levels' based on it.
EDIT: I just remembered it's a fail if you don't "add up" to 9, so my bad, I see what you meant. Sorry, I just misinterpreted. (Though I stress that this system only works that way for non-contested rolls. In combat against other PCs, it's the higher Sucess Level that wins, since Dodge is rolled. Against NPCs, it works with a Combat Score. And at this point I'm just trying to be precise. Sorry!)
- Hero/fate points.
Drama Points.
- Templates. I can't stress enough how much I think templates are a godsend for MU players. It's 2017, we should have the option between completely 'from scratch' and 'pick a template and customize it'. The difference is between spending minutes or hours making a character. I'm old and tottering towards the sweet embrace of death. I hate wasting my precious time on making characters.
They don't have templates, either. They have packagesº, which are pretty broken, to be honest. If they were templates (X amount of points are pre-spent on Y and Z to represent the template) that would be great, yes, I totally agree. But the packages system gives bonuses based on pre-made Qualities that include bonuses and drawbacks (which can then ignore limitations of max amount of qualities) and is broken because they are inherently unbalanced as fuck, giving vague and ambiguous drawbacks on the one hand and heinously broken bonuses on the other, often unevenly. This works fine for tabletop because the Storyteller is responsible for making sure everyone's useful and contributing, but it's heinous for a MU (especially for staff, who ahve to then deal with the constant fucking bitching, believe me, I have run MUs using this system before).
ºUnless, by "template" you mean "Investigator", "Hero", "White Hat", etc., in which case, I think "template" is the wrong word because really the only change is the amount of points you get to spend, not any pre-spent ones.
All that said, there are a ton of easy ways to rectify this shit and the Cinematic Unisystem holds a special place in my heart because it's the one that was used in the very first MU I played, now almost eleven years ago--I think.
