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I haven't looked into but I too have been seeing the talk. Il have to look into it.

The SRD is free and legal so I'd recommend taking a peek. It doesn't have the quality art that's in the core book and cards but the rules are the same.

I know a lot of folks are going ga-ga about the cards and how easy it is to make characters, but I am a reactionary grognard who hates change; and therefore does not like it.

It honestly feels like a step towards further monetizing the RPG space, because now you need a set of cards to play. I feel the same way about proprietary dice too.

I am not a fan of monetizing RPGs beyond books/PDFs. Part of the appeal to me is that once you have the rules you don't need anything else to play.

Beyond that, I have not looked close enough at it to have an opinion.

The cards are frankly an unnecessary gimmick but I could see people who don't actually play ttrpgs (i.e. Critters) going gaga for them.

FWIW, though, you don't need the cards at all as the full text is in the SRD and you can just copy it over to the a character sheet since the rules for each card barely amount to a couple of sentences (or no more than the typical feat/talent/power/spell/whatever).

I wanted to run a campaign based in my sci fi setting for my novel, which might take place during or in replacement of the events of the 2nd novel (which has a very broad plan to it) I couldn't find a system online that fits the setting so started to make my own P&P RPG which has been a challenge. Character creation is a points buy/skill/traits buy system, but I started to make classes, which I got stuck on, so instead I just made it the Player can upgrade their stats freely. It's also a 2d12 system. I might've borrowed heavily from the Infinity Tabletop Miniature game for inspiration, lol.