Game of Thrones

[Ethanorr]

Well I don't have any experience with this game. I don't play this kinda like game of thrones as I thought initially it is a game for adults. The review I heard is quite uncertain so i would like to play this game on trial version first.

[Whisperduke]

Game of Thrones is an Amaizing series of books and also a very entertaining show.

There is still so much unknown about the Lore, Mythology, Magic System, Class features etc etc. Hell...even White Walkers are still a small mystery leaving out such detail.

Try the PC games. That might float yourself some ideas.

There is so little to be known that anything made by non professional sources (PC games, Goerge RR Martin approved resources etc etc) will be half done at best filled with Guesswork.

I'm sticking with Pathfinder and GURPS.

[Banshee]

Game of Thrones is definitely amazing, both the series and the books. At the risk of sounding corny, both draw me right into the story, and I find myself thinking (at least for the show) that this has to be the fastest hour of the week! LOL I also like that some of the stuff in the show deviates from the material in the books. I know that some is obviously done for continuity and time constraints, but I hear from friends who are further along in the books than I that there are characters who appear in the books but not at all in the series. Just makes it interesting, and makes me need to see AND read more. Very well done.

[mrken]

It has been awhile since I have visited this thread. In a way I am surprised it is not archived, and in a way I am surprised it does not have 58 pages of commentary.

Upon advice I found here, I d/l the free introductory piece. Read it over a few times to find out if I liked it even a bit. My problem is that I am so fascinated by the books/movies that I'm afraid any old pile of crap would look like gold to me.

The rule book also found it's way into my house. It too may have me under it's spells. So, of course I had to get the Chronicles and the Wedding Knight adventure as well. The rules don't sound so bad, but then I have yet to put them into play and see first hand if they work at any level. Wanted to run a game at one of our local conventions, but without running any games I am of course hesitant to run them for paying players. Since my old group fell apart maybe I will find the time to look for some players at our new game store.

[DMMike]

I read something about social combat earlier in the thread, not sure if it's actually in the GoT system or not.
That system excluded, the burden seems to be on the GM to make a Game of Thrones game good, since GoT seems heavily social and less physical. Meaning, it's easy to set up conflict by having someone swing a sword at players, not so easy to set up conflict with witty comments, veiled threats, and conflicting motivations.

My lingering question: is there a Game of Thrones system that includes game mechanics that can't create the same game that d20 could?

[mrken]

Are you talking about the social combat? Back in the day Pendragon had the social combat system that worked very well.