[OFF] Other Crappy RPGs...

I don't -hate- dark heresy by any means, but I think that the focus on the inquisition (rather than rogue traders) and the related rules decisions really stymied its potential. But then again I think that, as a Role-Playing setting, Fading Suns does the whole neo-medieval space-opera fantasy thing a good deal better (in, for instance, it's treatment of Religion, or the freedom of the Questing Knight set-up). But man, replacing my careers with de facto classes, though it might make sense for inquisitors, is a good way to make me sad.

I do hate Vampire in its various incarnations, mostly because I hate vampires (as protagonists...damn Anne Rice). Too much angst and ~evil~ for evil's sake. And I don't like DnD--too generic, Tolkienesque fantasy deprived of much of the flavor that made Middle-Earth so interesting. I do admit that good things could come of both of these games (Planescape:Torment, and Baldur's Gate have been mentioned before) but I don't think that makes up for the setting's weaknesses. At least some of the guys that made Vampire later made the aforementioned Fading Suns, which is one of my favorite settings ever.
-Wilhelm