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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9888682" data-attributes="member: 19675">For me, the main questions I ask:1) how easy is it for me to design interesting, fun PCs of different kinds?2) how does it compare to HERO?3) how does it compare to GURPS?Context: HERO is my favorite RPG system; GURPS is the toolbox system I’ve found to be popular with the biggest number of groups I’ve been part of.  So I have a lot of hands-on experiences with each, meaning I can get pretty creative with PC design.Of the systems I’ve added to my arsenal this century:1) Mutants & Masterminds has come closest to being as flexible & useful to me as HERO.2) I’ve perceived Cypher as being damn flexible and relatively rules light, so it has a lot of potential 3) I feel quite strongly that D&D 4Ed shouldn’t have supplanted 3.5Ed.  Instead it should have been designed from Day 1 as a classless toolbox system. It has great bones for that, IMHO, and it was somewhat hobbled by adapting its mechanisms to fit (or slaughter) D&D sacred cows.</blockquote>