Min/Max Boards

For any sort of modern setting with 'magic' of whatever form, if you want a narrative system, I recommend a good hard look at Dresden Files RPG. It does basically everything nWoD does and more, only better. The FATE system it's based on might take some getting used to, but it's the best narrativist system I've had the pleasure of playing and GMing with. While its books are very focused on the Dresdenverse that the game is based on, it's nearly trivial to adapt to many other settings - if so inclined, you can very easily recreate the nWoD splats in spirit if not in exact mechanics, for example. Other FATE-based games may work in the same vein, but DFRPG is the only one I've personally played.

As online play goes, it's hard to gauge what will be quick and what will be slow, really, but mechanics-light systems in general will run faster than mechanics-heavy ones for obvious reasons. In DFRPG, the chat environment can be very useful for working things like aspect invocations and maneuvers out as a group, which the game heavily encourages.

For other alternatives... Mutants & Masterminds will work with practically any setting, but is probably less than ideal for online play, being very involved and mechanics-oriented (though a chat enviornment can help with descriptors in a similar way to aspects).

Ah, then you might have problems yeah. I think even WoD games handle having regular conflict better.

What kind of campaign are you guys interested in running?  B/c, as Veekie and I have both indicated, saying "I want to play GURPS" is kind of vacuous. 

Even a full caster (like wizard XX) can go melee with the right spell selection. You only have to care about improving your defenses really high. I.e. Ghostform+Mystic Shield (for immunity to damage for CL rounds) is good at high levels, then you can go melee and use spells like Death by Thorns (it allows a save but even if your enemy makes the save he will be most likely dead).

But you said low levels, no idea there, but Combust is a really nice low-level melee-spell. I used it auto-empowered on my Wu Jen (that damage was crazy, 68 average damage on level 7 with a level 2 spell).

@phaedrusxy: Daggerspell Mage could work, too, while we're at it... They are melee and not beeing seen is a pretty good defense.

Cleric or Druid.  They do melee better than fighters.

Quote from: veekie on February 29, 2012, 04:47:01 AM

Better idea I think is to go with Rejakor's  suggestion, multiple foes that ping through his defenses, or around him while he blockades a few. Wolf pack tactics, where several enemies limit his mobility physically(say a pair flanking him), and then other high mobility enemies harry his allies.

+1.  I actually play a supermount character whose AC is actually kind of too high (45-50 at level 13), so I've given my DM a list of options to get around that.  I could post it if you're interested.  I like things like Emerald Razor and Wands of True Strike b/c they make me feel like my AC has a real effect -- the baddies are wasting actions, etc. so that even if I do get hit, I'm nerfing them.  I'm also quite good at taking hits, which also makes me ok with that tactic.

The other one, as others have noted, is the ganging up tactics.  If a swarm of baddies have to waste their actions to accumulate enough Aid Another actions to hit me, then I also feel pretty good about myself.  It lets the PC take damage, which is I take it part of the goals of this thread, but it also helps him feel awesome:  look, it took 15 of them working together to even scratch me!

Better idea I think is to go with Rejakor's  suggestion, multiple foes that ping through his defenses, or around him while he blockades a few. Wolf pack tactics, where several enemies limit his mobility physically(say a pair flanking him), and then other high mobility enemies harry his allies.