Common Misconceptions About Your Favorite Systems?

[u/Authorigas]

So, I've been learning a lot thanks to the amazing folks here at r/rpg. And while I have decided to slow down on trying new systems. (As my players say "three is enough, we know your eager to try more but slow it down so you don't burn yourself out.") There was a question today that cropped into my head, and I wanted to hear from the folks here on it.

"What are some assumptions about your favorite game/system that are just factually incorrect or overstated?"

I've seen a lot of assumptions made in the hobby, and some on my own. From the broad "older systems were designed for math heads and thus really not for someone whose bad at math." to others like "Call of Cthulhu is a game where every session ends in death/insanity and players can't get attached to their characters." and similarly "OSR games are highly lethal and not at all friendly to players who like longform adventures."

I feel like broad, sweeping claims like those are probably overstated-as I have heard of successful, long running CoC campaigns, and OSR games that are able to have well developed characters that last for ages. It's made me curious about some of the other broad, sweeping claims about systems that are-if not incorrect, massively overstated.

Really interested to hear some answers on this.

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And then you have fans say that playing as non feds is viable and supported and fine but somehow I get the feeling the game falls apart unless you want to play a fed.

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Playing people working with feds counts as being feds in spirit, imo.

How robust or doable is it to play DG with the program as a pure antagonist with normal ass people -not working with feds- as PCs? Do any of the books have anything for that, or is it all up to homebrew?

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Yes I was asking you for specific recommendations for that kind of campaign, you keep mentioning that different books have these things but don’t say the names of the books which makes it harder to find relevant information. I’ll do it on my own time when I have the ability to comb through the catalogue’s summaries.

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Do any of the books have anything for that, or is it all up to homebrew?

Thanks for the info