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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9160325" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Well, when you get down to it, the more you can tune a character the more potential for min-maxing is present.&nbsp; There's a reason I always used a secondary capping system in my latter day years with it.It really depends on what kind of magic you're wanting to simulate.&nbsp; There's a reason the last two incarnations of FH had somewhat extensive discussions of ways to set up magic systems that use somewhat different assumptions than the core &quot;powers plus modifiers&quot; or &quot;power frameworks&quot; approaches.That said, I'm not sold its not still better than most fantasy games; its not like almost all fantasy makes fairly specific assumptions about magic; its just a case whether you like those particular assumptions.&nbsp; Among other things, whether exception based design is a virtue is very much in the eye of the beholder, and people who really want to have their magic system in that mode are going to have to do some serious heavy lifting to get Hero to do that for them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 9160325, member: 7026617"] Well, when you get down to it, the more you can tune a character the more potential for min-maxing is present. There's a reason I always used a secondary capping system in my latter day years with it. It really depends on what kind of magic you're wanting to simulate. There's a reason the last two incarnations of FH had somewhat extensive discussions of ways to set up magic systems that use somewhat different assumptions than the core "powers plus modifiers" or "power frameworks" approaches. That said, I'm not sold its not still better than most fantasy games; its not like almost all fantasy makes fairly specific assumptions about magic; its just a case whether you [I]like[/I] those particular assumptions. Among other things, whether exception based design is a virtue is [I]very much[/I] in the eye of the beholder, and people who really want to have their magic system in that mode are going to have to do some serious heavy lifting to get Hero to do that for them. [/QUOTE]

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