Quote Originally Posted by Tavar View Post
Well, I think both merits and flaws can be interesting, and it really isn't a problem to add merits to a game. The problem is with flaws, mainly for the same reason that flaws are a problem in DnD.
So they're extremely overpowered? Mmmmmm... Well, in this case, I'm the only one learning all the rules and explaining them to them as they make their characters (more or less as usual), so the chances they make an overpowered character seem rather low.

Besides, I'm going to be brutally blunt here - I can optimize circles around my players. And they know it perfectly well. So they generally don't try to overpower themselves too much - they know I'll catch them, that I'm a thinly reformed powergamer, and that I will either ask them to tone it down or take it as a challenge .

But eh, as said, I will just get other books anyway.