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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8231541" data-attributes="member: 42582">Talking about RM is tricky because it has so many supplements/optional rules.Some of those optional system include points-buy-ish "background options". These open up some of the same problems you point to in GURPS and Cyberpunk, though not always with the same degree of flexibility.But core RM is choose a race, choose a profession, allocate points to the skills you want. If you want to be good at fighting, stick points in your weapon and your armour (or adrenal defence for warrior monks) and your body development. If you want to be good at casting, stick as much as you can into your spell list development. There's a fair bit of accounting, but everything basically does what it says on the tin.RM does have a small number of broken spell lists, but I don't count finding those as optimisation. It's like the OA/AD&D 2nd ed katana which is just like a longsword but with d10 rather than d8 damage. Picking that isn't optimisation in any meaningful sense, it's just exploiting a broken element which can easily be excised. It's not trading on any system interactions.</blockquote>