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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7343752" data-attributes="member: 19675">1) Even though it is notoriously crunchy, you mostly only only encounter that during character creation.  So while it can be difficult to create a character, the game comes across as a breeze to play.2) Similarly, you almost never need the rulebooks in session- 95% of what you need is on your character sheet.3) I’ve yet to come up with a PC concept I couldn’t model in it, regardless of genre4) the way things are modeled make sense (to me and some others).  Best example: Autofire rules.  Many modern games- like Mutants & Masterminds- think it is better to simply add extra damage to a single attack to simulate using many attacks, like a machine gun or a super-speedster’s rapid-fire punch.  While it is faster, it ignores how sometimes those autofire attacks are distributed among multiple targets.5) the game is truly generic and universal.  Unless the GM issues campaign-specific rules, the “Jedi” you make for a sci-fi game could be used as a “mystic warrior” in a fantasy game, simply by changing the character’s name.  The truncheon-wielding City Watch could be similarly reskinned as a mall-security rent-a-cop. Not only can that be a great time saver, this also means that genre blending is easy.  You want a campaign with Space Marines falling through a dimensional warp into a realm of high fantasy, then its as easily said as done.</blockquote>