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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aus_Snow" data-source="post: 4932409" data-attributes="member: 29112">Eesh, that's a tricky bunch of requirements. . . <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> So, other than the good suggestions already given:The One Roll Engine might be worth looking into, via Nemesis, Reign and the like. But it doesn't cover every single point you listed. Reign, for example, has a kind of lifepath system built in, dice pools (rather neat ones, actually), characterisation mechanics (er, I think), tactical combat, and so on.Likewise, EABA could be used, which would be somewhat along the lines of GURPS, but might appeal more. Very flexible, not so swingy at all. No lifepath, not a dice pool per se, although it could be thought of in that way. . .Artesia (and Fuzion in general) could be worth a look, but it's pretty crunchy, and there are crazy amounts of stats (Artesia has FIFTEEN!). . . even so, many of your criteria are met by this game, weirdly enough. You'd have to come up with (or graft on) different magic/powers mechanics (e.g., from another Fuzion source perhaps), but the rest of the system is very close indeed, now I think about it some more. . . Oh, and it's partly derived from Cyberpunk, which you did name! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm    :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" />Each of those has some crunchy combat etc., but none of them is anywhere near say, HERO (IMO, that is).Just to address the last three you named: Burning Wheel* (plus hacks, natch) might work OK, and it certainly hits most or all of those points, pretty squarely; Riddle of Steel does too, AFAIK; HeroQuest 2.0 on the other hand is (to the best of my knowledge) *way* over the story-oriented side of RPG land - IOW, it really doesn't have much in the way of, for example, combat crunch or anything of the sort, but the characterisation et al would be there in spades.* A supplement to research is Magic Burner, containing many alternative magic systems - might even be something appropriate (? - I only have the core two, plus one other)</blockquote>

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