This is a fantastic superhero role-playing game. Simple and quick in play, so you can get straight to the narritive, and easy to pick up and learn. The random character creation also has a lot more fun that it's has any right to be. Certainly more fun than than most games.

I've been something of a "casual" fan of the OSR. I've read a number of books and adventures, looked over various systems, but I never actually felt comfortable actually running any OSR game... I've never ran anything "out of the box" without my own set of house and I felt there were a lot of little bits and pieces I didn't trust myself to tweak without greatly imbalacing the game. Enter Five Torches Deep. Being a modern modern ruleset, with base mechanics I'm used to, I'm a lot more comfortable with furthering hacking it into my own thing.