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The book recommends (core p199): “A good fight for a party of heroes is two Extras per hero plus an enemy Wild Card leader with roughly...

Features like Unstoppable, Hardy, Resilient / Very Resilient, and large size mean even an Extra can be extremely hard to take out.

There was a trend for a while, I wouldnt say was just rules lite, but experience specific. Instead of generic do anything systems, folks...

When I am running supers with Savage Worlds the Inverse Rules of Ninjas applies - a solo foe is likely a Wild Card but a team of enemies...

I haven’t played ETU, only read it. My understanding is a trope of the genre is finding an enemies weakness so you can exploit it and...

Yeah, the newest "Pandemic" version, a LotR themed title, is FAR more complex than original Pandemic. In fact, almost all later versions...

Board Game Geek refutes that premise. All the highly rated games are pretty complex. The top 10 games on BGG have an average ‘weight’...

They are, Exhibit A … Draw Steel. And there are many reasons, already discussed in this thread, which mean creating a new crunchy game...

There are always new ideas and new ways of using existing ideas. That applies to crunchy games as well as light weight ones.

I think the type of crunch is important. Rules engines like D&D use an exception based design, where every special ability is typically...

I haven’t played DS yet but I have read through the Heroes book twice solidly to get my head around the new concepts and how they all...

Maybe not so much on the ’clear signal’ aspect but Fate has the concept of a concession which would fit the ’retreat’ aspect nicely...

EABA v2 has an interesting take on this. When you get to a certain level of injury you do take a penalty to skills. But that penalty...

That really, really says Draw Steel to me :) And to add to that - the model of Victories increasing resources while Recoveries deplete...

I’ve often thought about this split between ‘heavy’ and ‘light’ systems. I put a name on the shift towards lighter systems as...