For everything else, there's HERO system

[Pteryx]

It occurs to me that the MasterCard ad template could work just as well with character points in an RPG -- an IC event being the part that's "priceless". Unfortunately, I haven't actually played HERO yet (I want the book, though! And the issue of Digital Hero with Object Creation in it, too!), so I can't provide my own example yet... but I hope I'm not the only one who finds the concept potentially amusing. Perhaps others could post their own? -- Pteryx

[tesuji]

Unfortunately, this begs the counter add spoofing the same thing... i recall the old herb commercials and the adds listing "herb eats here as counters. :-)

"Good gantasy roleplaying: DND 3.5."
"Good SuperHero Roleplaying: MnM"
"Good science fiction roleplaying: Stagate-SG-1, Traveller D20, or Babylon-5 D20" Did i leave out Star Wars?
"Good Buffy Roleplaying: D10 Modern Urban Arcana"
"Good X-File Roleplaying: D20 modern Urban Arcana"
"Good Super-Spy Roleplaying: D20 modern or Spycraft d20"
etc
etc
etc with the final catch line being

"For whatever's left... HERO system."