Besides being nicely designed game systems, one thing we've been discussing around here is at our current ages (40-50) with wives, kids, jobs, etc. there just isn't much time to actually play games.  We try to play twice a month, but sometimes it's one time and sometimes less than one.

(Ha! Pausing to read handmade Batman/Wolverine comic my daughter drew for me)

Where was I?    Oh yeah, so given the lack of playing time we're starting to gravitate to "low prep/low maintenance" games.    And BoL and CB seem to fit that requirement nicely.

There are RPG's we love to read but there are also RPG's we love to play (sometimes they are the same but not always).   These "simpler" games are the ones we seem to gravitate to playing this year more than ever.   We only have about a 2-3 hour block of time so can't afford to get bogged down in 400 pages of rules.

Granted, sometimes these games also seem to "need more" (like random tables for whatever ....we love random tables for some reason), but again given our current situations where we don't know when we're going to play til the last minute, they are perfect for just jumping in and playing and having fun.

I'm sure I'm "preaching to the choir" here...but just wanted to chime in and thank you for providing the systems for us.

PS- Now where are my random tables?