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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 9637931" data-attributes="member: 5142">IMHO, Cortex Prime is incredibly niche. It's a toolkit that is mostly targeted at people who already played Cortex through its prior games, which are no longer available. Prime was late in development and had a number of changes of ownership, which also killed some of its licensing deals (e.g., Masters of the Universe), and Cortex Prime doesn't really have any games associated with it other than Dragon Prince. From what I recall, the current publisher still hasn't publicly published the Spotlights, which are meant to be micro-games that highlight the versatility of the system.*&nbsp; Moreover, I personally found the game does a bad job of explaining why and how you would use certain rules. A frequent question that I would see on the Cortex Prime Discord was &quot;how do I do magic in this game?&quot; The answer was usually something to the effect of &quot;it depends on what you want magic to do,&quot; which while true is also something of a non-answer that doesn't really help people trying to grok the system. * In contrast, Fate has a LOT of these (and for cheap) so you can see different ways that people have utilized the system.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 9637931, member: 5142"] IMHO, Cortex Prime is incredibly niche. It's a toolkit that is mostly targeted at people who already played Cortex through its prior games, which are no longer available. Prime was late in development and had a number of changes of ownership, which also killed some of its licensing deals (e.g., Masters of the Universe), and Cortex Prime doesn't really have any games associated with it other than Dragon Prince. From what I recall, the current publisher still hasn't publicly published the Spotlights, which are meant to be micro-games that highlight the versatility of the system.* Moreover, I personally found the game does a bad job of explaining why and how you would use certain rules. A frequent question that I would see on the Cortex Prime Discord was "how do I do magic in this game?" The answer was usually something to the effect of "it depends on what you want magic to do," which while true is also something of a non-answer that doesn't really help people trying to grok the system. * In contrast, Fate has a LOT of these (and for cheap) so you can see different ways that people have utilized the system. [/QUOTE]

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