Ever since the first commercially available role-playing game in 1974, there's been a constant drive for hobbyists to develop and publish their own rule sets. Many of them even feel that it's worthwhile to publish them.
This is due to a fundamental misunderstanding. Because the already available mainstream rules were clearly good enough, or people wouldn't have become RPG gamers at all.
Almost nobody wants your improved rules system, divorced from any body of adventure scenarios.
#ttrpg
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