Well, Exalted was fun. Lots of stuff going on, lots of flashy combat, and plenty of opportunity to annoy the other players (in character, of course). It uses the Storyteller system, which is quick and fairly easy to understand (balacing can be a bit of a problem, but that's another rant).
The one mechanic I'm not so sure I like, however, is the Stunt mechanic, whereby a player describes some outrageous maneuver that his PC is going to pull off, and the Storyteller assigns a one to three dice bonus to pools for the roll.
This is fine, right up to the point where the character becomes capable of feats that he couldn't have normally pulled off, but that become possible with a Stunt. The problem there is that there might be another PC in the group who has spent lots of XP to get those precise abilities, and suddenly this other guy can do it for free.
Hmm...
Then again, the mechanic is quick, simple, and does exactly what it sets out to do.
And, of course, the alternative is to put lots of restrictions on the use of Stunts, which kills the mechanic dead. So, I guess it's just a taste thing.
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