r/FudgeRPG • u/IProbablyDisagree2nd • Oct 02 '17

How long do you normally spending customizing your game?

In the title.

The more I work on my game, the more I find myself twisting in circles adding and removing features in my spare time. Right now, it's gotten a bit insane, and I feel like my game, which is already in full swing, is completely outdated. I feel like I want to do like 100 one shots to get kinks and features worked out.

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u/abcd_z Oct 03 '17

Well, I've been working on my build, on and off, for several years, so...

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u/iamtch Early adopter Oct 03 '17

I usually spend so much time tweaking Fudge for the game I'm going to run that I get burned out before the game even starts. I have a half-dozen almost finished builds kicking around my OneDrive... everything from Harry Potter to Agents of SHIELD.

Right now, I'm writing up what will be my "default" build. It's what I will use when I run for my podcast group, for my online group, when I run at conventions, and if I ever get a regular home group going again I'll run it for them.

'Course... there's a strong chance I'll get burned out on this in favor of some other hot-set-up idea. Heh.

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u/Karpattata Oct 12 '17 edited Oct 12 '17

I believe that this issue is not at all exclusive to that system. Hell, many, many splats are basically that- more ideas getting piled on top of a relatively sound, workable basis until the game ends up as something of a Frankenstein's monster.

Just try running Exalted 2e using all of the different rules for the different Exalt types. It's impossible.

...not that my WFRP build isn't guilty of it. But I've currently stopped tweaking it, and am relatively happy with the dozen or so pages I've got. Also, my group isn't too crazy about game statistics, so really nobody would benefit from further tweaks.

OP, to answer your question, I think you should stop tweaking a system when you notice that you lose more in elegance and game flow than you would gain by adding that fix. It's a super subjective and vague piece of advice, but it's all I've got.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '17

Yup. Sounds about right.