I guess the question is, does the system, and its lethality, require a mechanistic understanding of the system. That's the biggest barrier to me - if I don't really like/get/want too buy the book for the GMs favorite setting, am I screwed?<br/><br/>Exalted (which I love) suffers pretty heavily from this problem - the power differential between a well-built character, and a not-optimized one, is a vast, vast gulf.