@SJohnRoss @Taskerland I think one of the big challenges with point buy systems is that making characters is a skill the player has to exercise before they can play. Not everybody is going to be interested in that kind of investment up front.

GURPS and HERO can turn into an exercise in quantifying everything in a very genre-breaking way, IME.

One of the things I like about Unknown Armies is it's kind of free-form BRP -- a mash up of BRP and Over the Edge.

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@SJohnRoss @Taskerland I think I tended to end up gaming with engineers more than actors, and the giant bricks of HERO 5 books makes me think things tended towards minutia there.

But there definitely were both camps around. I remember a GM being very grumpy with my champions character who had a crime detector. 'What's the mechanism? Is it telepathy?'

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