Sell me on Judge Dredd
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Simple answer: Because JD is a cool setting 
A bit more detailed answer: The setting has a sort of post apoc feeling to with radiation and mutants. Most of the normal humans are pretty tightly packed to huge cities like MC-1. Although the default setting is urban policing of the streets of MC-1 you could pretty easily set your campaign to Cursed Earth (where anything weird can happen).
I think there was a short series called "Cursed Earth Coburn" where a small team of judges were posted to a remote station in the Cursed Earth. It had a sort of Mad Max (the first movie) and Western feeling to it. You could do something like that, too.
Personally, Traveller system seems a tad too light for me, too but I am not sure because I have not yet run anything with it. Yes, you are not interested in the career system but in this case it really gives life to your judge (I have created one character just to test the system).
If you are only after the fluff I am not sure if I am the best person to answer you. Maybe those Archive books are then better suited to your need.
It would help a bit if you told us what you are after. Are you looking for a new game or some ideas that you could use in your own game or something else?
A bit more detailed answer: The setting has a sort of post apoc feeling to with radiation and mutants. Most of the normal humans are pretty tightly packed to huge cities like MC-1. Although the default setting is urban policing of the streets of MC-1 you could pretty easily set your campaign to Cursed Earth (where anything weird can happen).
I think there was a short series called "Cursed Earth Coburn" where a small team of judges were posted to a remote station in the Cursed Earth. It had a sort of Mad Max (the first movie) and Western feeling to it. You could do something like that, too.
Personally, Traveller system seems a tad too light for me, too but I am not sure because I have not yet run anything with it. Yes, you are not interested in the career system but in this case it really gives life to your judge (I have created one character just to test the system).
If you are only after the fluff I am not sure if I am the best person to answer you. Maybe those Archive books are then better suited to your need.
It would help a bit if you told us what you are after. Are you looking for a new game or some ideas that you could use in your own game or something else?
I'm Mainly interested in wether or not I'd like the setting info. I want to know what mega city 1 and the cursed earth is like. If it sounds like something I'd like then I would be looking at getting resources (game books,archives or other source books) that would let me run the setting. I would be using HQ2.So no need for stats, just descriptions and like I said I have NO interest in the lifepath system.
How about reading the Mega-City One entry on Wikipedia? It's pretty comprehensive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega-City_One
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega-City_One
