The Cortex system is an RPG system where die-size represents skill or potency. For instance, a Stealth skill of d6 would be worse than an Alertness of d12. Use this tag by itself to denote something common to other cortex games or with a specific game tag to provide the necessary context to your ...

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From Serenity through Battlestar Galactica to the Stand-Alone Rules for Cortex, what has been changed?

I get the impression that the Cortex RPG system has evolved in several directions since the release of the Serenity RPG. Not including genre-specific changes like whatever rules for the supernatural ...