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That’s right – in Classic Traveller, your PC can die during character generation. For instance, to hit with a machinegun requires a roll of 7 or greater, with the character’s Gunner skill level added to the total of the dice.Īs it happens, both this skill system and this task resolution are precisely mirrored in GDW’s Classic Traveller, the influential science-fiction RPG.

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While Car Wars is mostly about car combat, it features the skeletons of a role-playing system: Characters are rated with skills like “Gunner” and “Mechanic” with ratings from 0 to +5, while task resolution is resolved with a roll of 2d6 plus the skill level to meet a difficulty number. Let’s begin with Steve Jackson’s Car Wars, a widely played simulation of automobile combat in a post-apocalyptic future. It’s easiest to explain in practice, so let’s start smashing.

Double Check – You review the adjacent rules or setting elements to make sure the smashed-up game is still coherent.

Blend – You adapt the rule mechanic or setting element from the first game into the second game.

Hook – You notice a rule mechanic or setting element from one game that somehow fits into the framework of the rules or setting of another game.

I call this “finding the hook,” and it’s the first step in a three-part process: The amusing thread on RPG.net linked above takes a humorous approach to smash-ups, leading to games like Skyrealms of Tekumel (combining obscure fantasy games Empire of the Petal Throne and Skyrealms of Jorune) to create a “world so weird no one goes there at all.” Obviously the writers are doing it just for giggles, but the key to any smash-up is to notice how two systems or settings fit together. Smashing up RPGs has been defined as “replacing major rules components with components from different games” or “taking two games in your collection and mixing them together.” However you define it, it’s a lot of fun indeed, one of my favorite pastimes as a gamemaster is blending systems and settings to create something unique. Videogames have smash-ups (often called “mods”) and so do tabletop RPGs.

Mash-ups are not confined to music, of course. Smash-ups have been around a long time but became a renewed cultural phenomenon with 2004’s Grey Album, a smash-up by Danger Mouse of Jay-Z’s Black Album and the Beatles’ White Album. A “smash-up,” also known as a mash-up, bootleg, blend, cut-up, crossover, or powermix, is a song or composition created when a producer blends a pair (or more) of previously existing songs, generally by combining the vocal track from one song with the instrumental track of another.