Thanks Paul!
Your thoughtful analysis has given me much food for thought and ideas for house rules, especially around character creation!

Now whether or not it’s a disappointment that the world’s most expensive RPG would need any sort of house rules is, I guess, a fair question, but my cost entry was so low I’m not terribly appalled. And maybe good GMs add house rules to ANY game, sometimes even unconsciously, depending on their players and the stories they want to explore…

Cheers,

Larry