But what are they filtering for?

As much as I like success counting systems, the speed of one die roll-under is really good if you are playing a game with lots of procedural rolls.

Success counting really benefits from games using concepts like let it ride from Burning Wheel (don’t keep rolling the same thing unless the situation changes significantly) and either extremely limited or highly abstracted combat.

I think part of it has just realising that they might as well as it was adding so many rules modules in. Its not like adding the basics in costs much more. The preview suggests the base classes will be replaced but its still going to be BXish at its core.

I haven’t used it in this way yet, but I want to use it to quickly generate things like news stories to pad put handouts. I’d really like to give my players full news papers in the style of Consulting Detective rather than just the relevant clippings.

Relax, it’s a lot easier to run a good game than some people make it look.

I try to limit myself to only especially nice books these days. If I just want to read the rules a pdf does the job done. So if its taking up shelf space is going to have to look nice and be useful. Aside from that, as long as I’m keeping in my entertainment budget there isn’t really such thing as too many.