P&P problems

[Alex Koponen]

Two of the problems that I have found with P&P are:
1) The magic system tends to make users of magic very powerful, perhaps
too powerful. They have no offsetting penalty other than the likelihood of
having multipliers and perhaps attributes (if placement allowed) placed to
emphasize magic rather than physical skills.

Though with poor or unlucky play they may be subject to abysmal failures.
An unlucky abysmal can be catastrophic.
[Of course this also allows any character to learn magic to a marginal
amount. Granted, a MEL2 EL1 wizard is all too likely to abysmal on any
offensive magic.]

2) Characters and creatures only roughly share the same attribute system.
Evidently, in order to keep encounter creation simple, the creatures use a
simplified system that in some (very few) cases had not been adequate.