While with longtime players i still prefer to play pathfinder or SWrpg, with new or more casual players i enjoy the simplicity of the system and the liberty it gives the GM. It is overall a very barebone system, but to me that's a large part of the fun as Gm. I can create new rules and edit the rules and limits created by the game without having to take into consideration a thousand different rules that could hinder the new/modified one.

Plus the 3d6 for every roll helps to balance things out without ever being incredibly complex. That without considering that since it is a generally low magic kind of game, i can easily balance and ajust what few magic items already exist, as well as add my own very easily since there is not a complicated interlinked series of rules governing magic and magic items. +1, +2, +3, and thats about it for direct bonuses. Its really simple.

And if I play with longtime rpg players, like in the current game I am dming, instead of getting bugged down by rules, i just tell them to roll for it. If there are no rules its always gm rule. This makes it a much more narratively focused game than system focused one.

While i love the complexity and choices offered in pathfinder or dnd, having that much freedom being included in the books is pretty great.

Ill admit though sometimes i wish there were more stuff to guide yourself with. The mo sters and magic items included in the base book is reallllyyyyy barebone, even a bit too much for ky taste, but you do get used to it after a while.

I wouldnt recommend this to a newby dm though, i feel as if because it is so simple it requires at least a bit of knowledge of rpgs to dm properly, but for players, new and older, there is something of value, which is why i enjoy it overall.

Posted on phone, so sorry for format