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)

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

Setting

Setting counts double.

Totals

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