This game system is a result of many years of playing various other games and never being fully happy with any of them. First off, none of them are universal enough to allow characters from fantasy worlds, modern day settings, the far future, superhero settings, horror, the Wild West, and any other possible genre one could imagine. My ideal game system would have to be able to accommodate this. Second, the other game systems out there are either so unreal that they are unenjoyable or so real they are unplayable. For example, in D&D a character puts on a suit of full plate armor so he is harder to hit. However, another character that is able to hit him with a rapier can potentially kill him with a single shot, despite the lack of any way a rapier could hope to penetrate that armor. The reality is that the guy in full plate armor would be much easier to hit due to the decrease in mobility, reduced peripheral vision, and increased burden of the heavy steel. However, it would require a considerable amount of force to penetrate that armor.