[Forge-main] FRINGE Meta-System (was New FRPGC Blog)

[Ricardo Gladwell]

Hi All,

Actually, reading through The Forge has given me a few ideas regarding 
FRINGE. For example, there is no reason I can't create a more 
'meta-game' system from FRINGE a la FUDGE. Rather than have specific set 
abilities or skills, I could devise a more generic system that simply 
specifies that an 'ability' and a 'skill' are required to make a roll 
and makes no assumptions about what precisely those traits are.

For example, if a character is defined with just two abilities: Mind and 
Body, whilst another is defined with the current FRINGE suite of 
abilities (Intelligence, Strength, etc), there is no reason they 
couldn't otherwise interract. A test to out-run each other could still 
be determined by Body + Run versus Agility + Sport, for example. Since 
they are both on the same scale, there would be no problems that 
couldn't be fixed with a bit of gamesmaster imagination.

This leads me to consider splitting FRINGE into two systems: FRINGE 
would become the meta-system, whilst a new system, called CORE, would 
define a standardised sub-syste of FRINGE that can be used as a generic 
roleplaying system for commong types of games (i.e. d20-like fantasy, 
Storyteller-like modern horror, etc).

Thoughts?

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Ricardo Gladwell
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