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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6617906" data-attributes="member: 6696971">I won't rehash most of the other responses to this but I agree with most of them.  I'll just choose 4 off the top of my head.1)  I would have rewritten the certain sections of the various books with a more decisive, clear voice on general play procedures, genre expectations, and best GMing practices.2)  I would have liked to have the xp paradigm in the system adjusted.  Specifically, I would have liked (1) xp only on failed skill challenges, (2) quest xp on the various tiers that is focused on realizing theme/PP/ED (akin to DW bonds/alignment and Cortex + Jobs/Milestones...Hackers Guide has this for D&D and they use Quests), (3) xp on stunting/play that hews to archetype and pushes play towards high octane action-adventure, (4) an "End of Session" move as in DW where the group goes over the play session and xp is rewarded for various things (such as "did we learn something new about the world" or "did we defeat a notable monster").3)  I would have liked a thriving Healing Surge (and a different name for them) economy that was synched into all of the relevant action resolution of the system from Rituals to Skill Challenges (see 4 below) and possibly and possibly for an Encounter Power recharge roll (eg spend a surge for a no action 5, 6 recharge roll).4)  I thought the final product of RC Skill Challenges were absolutely great.  However, I would have preferred a few changes to make the meta-action slightly more fun and offer more decision-points:Treat failure in SCs akin to MHRP's conflict resolution.  In MHRP, GMs can activate 1s rolled by PCs to up their resource capabilities (they gain dice or step up current dice) which translates to escalating the conflict and upping the stakes in the fiction.  In return, the players are given plot points.  This is sort of the paradigm of RC SCs with Hard DCs:Advantages except it passively defaults to this set-up, thus it doesn't carry the emergent, evolving dynamism of the conflict resolution mechanics and the interesting decision-points (for player and GM) that MHRP does.In 4e, the GM would gain a Hard DC for future deployment in the challenge while the PC would gain a token to spend a Healing Surge to mitigate the escalation of the conflict and the impending disaster brought on by the micro-failure (in the same way that advantages are used in RC SCs).</blockquote>

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