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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 9267546" data-attributes="member: 5142">This is pretty much my hang-up with Cortex Prime. It's a versatile kit and well-loved by its adherents, but I also find a lot of advice about grokking the system from those same fans to be a bit vacuous, vague, and mostly unhelpful, especially for newcomers who are looking to get into Cortex. Like one of the most requested things I have seen people ask advice about is how to do magic. But the usual truistic answer is &quot;it depends on what you want magic to do.&quot; Which while true, generally doesn't help people who are trying to grok the system. So what usually happens, IME, is that those people throw their hands up in frustration and go play/grok some other system. With Fate, people can point to relatively cheap published materials for examples. With Cortex, a lot of those potential examples are either out-of-print or were removed from DriveThruRPG due to publisher reasons.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 9267546, member: 5142"] This is pretty much my hang-up with Cortex Prime. It's a versatile kit and well-loved by its adherents, but I also find a lot of advice about grokking the system from those same fans to be a bit vacuous, vague, and mostly unhelpful, especially for newcomers who are looking to get into Cortex. Like one of the most requested things I have seen people ask advice about is how to do magic. But the usual truistic answer is "it depends on what you want magic to do." Which while true, generally doesn't help people who are trying to grok the system. So what usually happens, IME, is that those people throw their hands up in frustration and go play/grok some other system. With Fate, people can point to relatively cheap published materials for examples. With Cortex, a lot of those potential examples are either out-of-print or were removed from DriveThruRPG due to publisher reasons. [/QUOTE]

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