I’m really sorry you didn’t enjoy yourself. I hope Forbidden Lands works better for you. The one game of Coriolis I played at GenCon already had me thinking “so, I pray for every roll, right? That seems…weird.”

I was sad about Mechatron. It had the same problem for me that Genlab Alpha had, which was it is essentially a railroad-y campaign scenario with rules attached. In another place, a person replied to me that I should just ignore the campaign scenario and just use the rules to add robots to MYZ, that in fact that was the point of Mechatron to some extent. It is not intended as a robot version of MYZ it is intended as an extended method to add robots to MYZ. I’m not sure if that is true, but its really not my thing either way, as a GM. Like Paul Mitchener I would probably enjoy playing it though.

Adam D I have a friend who is much the same as yours, I think. Who seems able to just go for it with traditional games in ways I can’t. I’m playing in a Star Trek Adventures game with him and its a riot, and I would fail at GM’ing that game in moments.