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In Rogue Trader 2E they have a similar abstraction system. One player I had really doesn't like those types of systems vs. more...

A good point in theory, but the resources available do not look deep enough to support that concept in a long-term campaign. In my...

The things you describe kind of combine ‘keeping score’ and ‘player empowerment’ so you just need to think how such things would apply...

All the toolbox and genre-flexible systems will do that, with more or less work required. The trick IMO is to know what your default...

GURPS Atomic Horror seems on the money. The genre in general is fairly pulp so I could probably run it with Savage Worlds, personally...

Looking at the question of ‘what to start with’ specifically, my suggestion would be Savage Worlds: The rule book is easy to get and...

I love flexible systems. In my mind there are maybe three or four groups. Toolkits are the most involved to get set up, typically they...

Smallville, Leverage, Marvel Heroic, and Firefly are the big ones made with Cortex+. Unfortunately as they were IP based they are no...

Which is often the chicken/egg hurdle for new toolkit systems for their adoption or increase in mind/game share. Lots of examples can...

Cortex is similar to Fudge in my opinion - it’s closer to a collection of mechanics and suggestions on how to use them than it is a game...

Absolutely, I was watching the show one day - many years ago- after Ellie-Mae got involved in the movies and gets a few suitors which...

These are the kinds of ‘problems’ I like, personally. As @Thomas Shey comments there are different flavours and strengths and weaknesses...

Another vote for Cortex Prime, because it has good mechanisms for handling character relationships, including animosity, in a...

That really does sound like something I'd at least look at Cortex Prime.

That says OpenQuest to me, or a similarly flexible system like Fate.