User:Almafeta/Mech A RPG contest reviews
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
Content
Content 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
Guerilla Earth: Two words: Landscape format.
- 1 point: Guerilla Earth
"Mechgen"
Setting
Setting counts double.
Totals
- Dreadful Tide: 8 points.
- Guerilla Earth: 6 points.
- Extinction: 4 points.
- Mecha Wars: 2 points.
