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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gorgon Zee" data-source="post: 9522311" data-attributes="member: 75787">Well,  of course, it doesn’t. That’s one problem. A second is that having everything is not good if you don’t need most of it. A third is that a generic system still imposes its style on the game and that style may be a poor fit. This argument has been made many times in the group over the decades, and I doubt either of us are going to add much to it. Just accept that many people don’t think generic systems work as well as targeted ones rather than trying to fight a war that many other have failed to win.10 might be excessive, but 2-3 is fine. M&M runs 400+ pages for the core two books, I believe, and those aren’t digest sized books! For the same word count, I can have 2-3 other icons-sized games. I stated: “there's such a huge distance between "The Boys" and minimal powered heroes fighting in WW2”. If you draw the conclusion from that that I ‘literally only talked about the problems of power level’ then I’m afraid it will quite hard to have a conversation with you. Please be a bit more careful in interpreting what others say, and don’t just try and shoehorn it into your experience and desires.</blockquote>