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<blockquote data-quote="Galfridus" data-source="post: 143991" data-attributes="member: 119">Hero System combats do take longer to run, generally speaking, than 3E combats. It's a quality of the system.I run a Psi Hero game at GenCon and have had plenty of people with absolutely no Hero experience join in and have a great time. I've also run a Fantasy Hero game for novices where I made the characters; they had no trouble adjusting to the rules. That said, there are certainly plenty of people who won't want to absorb all the rules. (A GM can work around this, of course.)You can do free-form magic systems in a couple ways. One is the &quot;Variable Power Pool&quot; described above, where you are literally building Hero System powers on the fly, which can be complex. I've also seen several Hero magic systems which pre-calculate a lot of this, so you have fewer options at casting time but it's a lot simpler to build the powers. Hero lets you decide how complex you want to be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Galfridus, post: 143991, member: 119"] Hero System combats do take longer to run, generally speaking, than 3E combats. It's a quality of the system. I run a Psi Hero game at GenCon and have had plenty of people with absolutely no Hero experience join in and have a great time. I've also run a Fantasy Hero game for novices where I made the characters; they had no trouble adjusting to the rules. That said, there are certainly plenty of people who won't want to absorb all the rules. (A GM can work around this, of course.) You can do free-form magic systems in a couple ways. One is the "Variable Power Pool" described above, where you are literally building Hero System powers on the fly, which can be complex. I've also seen several Hero magic systems which pre-calculate a lot of this, so you have fewer options at casting time but it's a lot simpler to build the powers. Hero lets you decide how complex you want to be. [/QUOTE]

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