The lack of competence is what ultimately turned me off of the game, sadly. I’d love to see more up-front character competence paired with more drawn-out advancement. I’m one of those weird players who doesn’t care half as much about getting more stuff as I do about being cool.

I don’t need to start the game as super Batman competent or anything, but I didn’t work well under the “fail at everything, all the time, unless I hurt myself” flow we experienced in play. Which is fine, I pulled out of that game and let the others continue to have their fun.

Goddamned gorgeous book, though.