Just thought I'd chime in.

I honestly don't mind which system Beyond Human will stick to primarily. If it's main thrust is for superhero roleplaying, then Cinematic is the natural choice. It seems to me that the intent is to make the book adaptable to both, so what's the problem? Seriously, if it can support both rules, and provides conversion guidelines from one to the other, what does it matter which set of rules it primarily uses?

Skeloric, having until last month been in a position of extremely limited income, I can understand the desire to be selective about what you buy (not easy when I end up buying most of the books for my group, I can tell you!). There's an easy solution. Simply convince a friend to buy the book you may want to read, and borrow it.

I think, with Angel and The Magic Box, you should have everything you need to see how the Cinematic rules work in detail.
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