I would have to agree with HH here. It's fine to go all cinematic on mortals, and for some things, perhaps a few PMs before a post would work great.<br/><br/>However, for combat and other challenges, I would defer to the system. The system is there, let's use it. It kinda defeats the purpose of drawing up a character sheet only to have the entire game go free-form.<br/><br/>As for play style, I can go either way, but I am leaning towards powers being there, but in a background role.