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House System

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 A set of rules used by a game development company for almost every game they publish. It is much cheaper to create the system once, and then tweak it for a specific game, than to develop a unique system for each game. It also helps with sales because players will already know the basics, and won't have to learn a whole new set of rules. If your system requires something unusual, such as particular dice or tokens, they can generally be reused between games. However, using a House System can backfire if the system doesn't fit the genre it's being applied to.
Distinct from a Universal System in that, while a House System may be used for multiple genres, it is not released as an independent cross-genre product and is only used by one company. However, many (even most) Universal Systems began as House Systems, and can still be listed here in that case.
Has nothing to do with the system of dividing Boarding School students into Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, etc. Or with Smart House.
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 Guardians of Order / Dyskami Publishing: The Tri-Stat System, used for Big Eyes, Small Mouth and Silver Age Sentinels among others.
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 Mongoose's version of RuneQuest is just different enough from Chaosium's system to avoid lawsuits, but thanks to the first edition's Open Game License became the basis for other variations, mostly fan-made.
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 The Storyteller system, used for the Old World of Darkness games.
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 The Interlock system, used in the Cyberpunk and Mekton games.
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 AEG: The D10-based system used for Legend of the Five Rings and 7th Sea. Both used the same basic die rolling mechanic, but were otherwise quite different.
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 Followed by their Storytelling system, where each game refers back to the core system in a single book (Chronicles of Darkness).
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