Thank you for the lovely review.
Glad you found the game easy to modify to your own liking. That was one of the core pillars to the rules. Finding the fun with the random, although sometimes it feels not-so random, generation is very important!
I hope to use a similar combat system in a future project but tighten up the rolls more. Encounter a large group is just too wild at the start of the game and turned a fair number of players off.