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==Chargen==
 
==Chargen==
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==Combat==
 
==Combat==
  
==Content==
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==Completeness==
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Completeness counts double.
  
 
<b>Dreadful Tide:</b>  Holy cow.  Far and away the victor in this category, it's 95 dense pages of stuff -- they made a commercial RPG without telling anyone.
 
<b>Dreadful Tide:</b>  Holy cow.  Far and away the victor in this category, it's 95 dense pages of stuff -- they made a commercial RPG without telling anyone.
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==Layout and Formatting==
 
==Layout and Formatting==
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<b>Dreadful Tide:</b>  Near-professional layout; some problems with table formatting, and some problems with tables or art going too close to the edge.
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<b>Extinction:</b>  Professional layout -- shouldn't this guy be working for White Wolf?
  
 
<b>Guerilla Earth:</b>  Two words:  Landscape format.
 
<b>Guerilla Earth:</b>  Two words:  Landscape format.
  
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<b>Mecha Wars:</b>  Okay layout in the beginning, but the layout becomes more and more unwieldly towards the end.
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*4 points:  Extinction
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*3 points:  Dreadful Tide
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*2 points:  Mecha Wars
 
*1 point:  Guerilla Earth
 
*1 point:  Guerilla Earth
  
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==Setting==
 
==Setting==
 
Setting counts double.
 
Setting counts double.
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==System Design==
  
 
==Totals==
 
==Totals==
#Dreadful Tide:  8 points.
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#Dreadful Tide:  11 points.
#Guerilla Earth6 points.
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#Extinction8 points.
#Extinction4 points.
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#Guerilla Earth7 points.
#Mecha Wars:  2 points.
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#Mecha Wars:  4 points.

Revision as of 13:21, 4 August 2005

I am in the middle of ranking the various other entries in the Mech A RPG.

For the sake of curtosey, I automatically place myself at 0 in every category, but to be honest, I didn't enter this contest seriously thinking I'd win it... it was mostly to see whether or not I could design a RPG without a trace of 'furriness' in it. That it's unfinished isn't that important, it's a success in my eyes.

This page is still being written... Almafeta 02:52, 4 Aug 2005 (PDT)

Chargen

Combat

Completeness

Completeness counts double.

Dreadful Tide: Holy cow. Far and away the victor in this category, it's 95 dense pages of stuff -- they made a commercial RPG without telling anyone.

Extinction: Extinction hits the 32-page goal exactly. However, it seems a little light on the content.

Guerilla Earth: 60 pages of content. Includes psi, sample mecha...

Mecha Wars: It's very heavy on the fiction and the background (14/37 pages), and it loses for it.

  • 8 points: Dreadful Tide
  • 6 points: Guerilla Earth
  • 4 points: Extinction
  • 2 points: Mecha Wars

Layout and Formatting

Dreadful Tide: Near-professional layout; some problems with table formatting, and some problems with tables or art going too close to the edge.

Extinction: Professional layout -- shouldn't this guy be working for White Wolf?

Guerilla Earth: Two words: Landscape format.

Mecha Wars: Okay layout in the beginning, but the layout becomes more and more unwieldly towards the end.

  • 4 points: Extinction
  • 3 points: Dreadful Tide
  • 2 points: Mecha Wars
  • 1 point: Guerilla Earth

"Mechgen"

Setting

Setting counts double.

System Design

Totals

  1. Dreadful Tide: 11 points.
  2. Extinction: 8 points.
  3. Guerilla Earth: 7 points.
  4. Mecha Wars: 4 points.