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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 2860640" data-attributes="member: 9254">I loathed the BGC Fuzion release.  Total tripe.CNM's base book was a little bland for someone who'd played Champions/Hero but it was a great book for someone with no experience in HERO.  One of the expansion books brought back some of the more advanced rules like power pools.  HERO was always too much work; I passed differential equations and HERO char-gen still makes me cringe.  I detest a ruleset where you have to pay attention to order of operations.  The greatest Fuzion disappointment to me was Core:Shards of the Stone by Obsidian.  An incredible system (Fuzion + hero points), great setting, gorgeous artwork (I bought several prints at Gencon2000),  wonderful expansion to the fuzion magic mechanics and lots of well known RPG authors had signed on to create material.  But then due to "creative differences" things went haywire.   They apparently still exist but they've got their own mechanic, are planning on doing d20 conversions, and the new books are 3-ring binders.  Ack.  And *sigh*</blockquote>