Jay Dragon goes full sicko mode with 4E and Norse mythology. This game goes hard. "Everyone has a stat block, even if they don’t want it." It wields dice and math as incisive and exuberant expressions of a mythic age.

When I was a kid, I opened the LOTR RPG from Decipher in a bookstore, and was blown away by the way it listed several levels of physical wellbeing: Hale, Winded, Tired, Weary, etc. The very concept of expressing the way a character was physically FEELING in a mechanical form stuck with me. This game makes me feel like that again, in a new way. It's revelatory.

Also, there are exponents in the damage calculations. It rules.