[jarulf]

Over the years, have you come across any systems or settings (other than BRP/RQ/Elric!/etc or Glorantha!) that were so close to being just right, but had some fatal flaw that prevented you from bowing down in worship?

For me, I think Harnworld is a very good candidate. It's a richly detailed setting for a gritty low-fantasy type of gaming I often enjoy. The maps are pretty and informative, the details on society, culture and economics are good and so on.

But I absolutely hate the religions. They are silly and dull. They are no different probably from what you'd find in many other games, but I just think they clash with the medieval quasi-real feeling of the rest of the setting.

Isn't that island a little bit crowded with all those kingdoms?

Elves and dwarves lifted from Middle Earth (literally, I gather).

I really want to like Harnworld, but can't.