Orc revolutionaries in love! Giant-sized mythic mecha! Swashbuckling cats in the far future! Hard-boiled and haunted police detectives! Cortex Prime is the newest version of this much-loved set of game rules, refined and redesigned for a new, digitally-supported generation. While I do appreciate the tidy precision of rolling only one or two dice from games like D&D or PbtA, there's an animal instinct of 'more dice more better' that Cortex has that I love it for.Cortex is an award-winning tabletop roleplaying game system that has existed in one form or another for over twenty years, powering multiple licensed roleplaying games. Cortex scratches an itch that is normally reserved for games like Warhammer 40K, where you get to roll a whole bunch of dice at once. As such, I'd have 3d6, 4d8 and a d10 that I'm rolling, getting to keep 4 of the dice as effect dice to hit multiple enemies thanks to Area Attack. For example, if I was playing a game based on the Disney+ Hawkeye show as Kate Bishop and I wanted to fight off a bunch of the Tracksuit Mafia, I'd probably build my dice pool as follows: I'd get a d10 for by Buddy Affiliation as I am only with Clint as an ally, get a d8 for my Dangerous Protege Distinction, a d8 for the Bow and Arrows Weapon Power Set with additional d6s from Area Attack for each of the Tracksuits beyond the first I'm targeting (let's say 3), a d8 for the Hawkeye-In-Training Enhanced Reflexes Power Set, plus a d8 for the Combat Expert Specialty. There are often a lot of things you have to consider when you take an action. I really like the dice pool system that Cortex uses.

Cortex prime handbook