Generic RPGs: One system to rule them all...

[talysman]

Hero Games definitely seems to be taking Marco's point into consideration in a subtly different manner from GURPS. Whereas GURPS books seem to be "this is how to modify our rules to play X setting this particular way", Hero's recent shift to "genre" books seems more like "here's how to play X setting and others like it with our rules". The difference is subtle but there.

just a note here to emphasize that GURPS does in fact create setting-specific rules. this is why cross-referencing (which you mention later in your post) is a problem in GURPS. if you want to run a supers game during a major war and want to simulate mass combat, you will need to use the mass-combat rules from one of the historical world books that added them and the power-building rules from Supers.

[wyrdlyng]

In response to Talysman, yes. Actually that was the point I was trying to make about GURPS is that they make new rules for each "genre". That's what leads to the cross-referencing nightmare.