I don't really see how his 'simple' system will prevent you from fudging roles and rewarding XP based on roleplaying as well as hacking and slashing. > > Does any of that make sense? > Well, yeah, but it's not an adequate answer, you haven't even looked at his system yet. Why not just say that you want to use systems that you've had experience with, which is fine, since you seem to want to take lead in this anyway.