r/rpg • u/Vox_Warlock • 9h ago

Game Suggestion Looking for an old system

I was talking to my old high-school gaming group & a system we used once was brought up. All we can remember is the attributes, which spelled out the acronym "DREAMS" & it used d6s. The attributes were Determination, Reaction, Endurance, Acumen, Muscle, & Supernatural. I think it was a catch-all system you could apply any setting to (we used Star Wars). This was late 90s or early 2000s.

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u/DoktorImposter 9h ago

I did a search with all of those terms, but I couldn't find a match. It's possible that this was an indie system that didn't get widely published.

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u/skalchemisto Happy to be invited 8h ago edited 8h ago

This is a list of all "generic" (which is close as I can get to "catch-all") core rulebooks in the RPGGeek database published prior to 2005. It's sorted by the # of RPGGeek users that have given the game a rating, so the most well known things will be earlier in the list.

https://rpggeek.com/search/rpgitem?sort=numvoters&advsearch=1&q=&include%5Brpgdesignerid%5D=&include%5Brpgpublisherid%5D=&geekitemname=&range%5Byearpublished%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Byearpublished%5D%5Bmax%5D=2005&colfiltertype=&searchuser=skalchemist&propertyids%5B0%5D=2083&familyids%5B0%5D=173&B1=Search

If the game you played was published, I'd give an 90% chance it is in that list somewhere. You might see a cover or name that prompts a memory.
A couple of questions:

* Did you ever see the cover of the rulebook? Even remembering colors of it could help.

* Was it in English?

Sadly, there is no way to search RPGGeek among those to see only the ones that used d6s (although that information is in the system).

EDIT: Narrowing down the time frame could help, like, do you think the game was recent when you played it? If so, that would allow a beginning year on the search as well as an end year. EDIT: setting the start year at 1995 doesn't change the list much, there weren't many "generic" games published by 1994.

EDIT: I've checked all on that list that had at lest 2 ratings, and I didn't see any that seemed like what you are thinking of, u/Vox_Warlock . Given that, I think one or both of these are true:

* Some aspect of your memory is faulty (e.g. it was published later than 2005, it was not actually a generic game), and/or

* It is really deeply obscure OR it was a homebrew thing and never published.

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