Do I actually need [POWERS]?

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by trooper6

Powers is definitely genre dependent. If you are running a game with no supernatural powers...then powers is useless.
Martial Arts I really, really like. But I have been in a game with almost no combat it in. And I could easily imagine a game where only the basic combat rules are used...a sort of breezy Lite game...the Martial Arts is useless.

Powers is genre dependent… it’s just that it’s useful for so many of ‘em ;) Martial Arts ought to find utility in just about any game where you’re going to have combat (though it is mostly concerned with low-tech).