Post originally by Bob Runnicles at 2004-01-12 12:17:15
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Nice review....I too have been fighting with myself over whether to commit to the Hero System (gamewise, bookwise I'm already pretty committed and have been since 4th Edition!) - only this weekend I decided to go with GURPS for now until the Hero Sidekick comes out (Hero Lite) as I've never played or GM'd Hero before and my players are pretty much rpg-newbies and to my tired old brain GURPS is, well, simpler to grasp and explain. To be honest it's the thought of wading through all those rules, trying to grasp it myself and then having to try and explain it all that is off-putting. I very much like the potential of the Hero System, but as the reviewer mentions it's this very wealth of options and customibility (is that a word?) that is off-putting when you're starting from scratch.

The tone of the review was spot and on it was worth reading the intro to see where the reviewer was coming from; certainly this review was aimed almost perfectly at me :}