Tastes obviously vary. I like many things about Pendragon. I'm ambivalent about traits, but the only thing I have a real problem with is that it works well only for what it was written for: heavily armed and armoured knights. I like swashbuckling stuff where the heroes in silken shirts/bearskin loincloths take on hordes of incompetent goons armed with a sword and nothing else. You can't do that in Pendragon.
I haven't seen the high skills problem others have encountered though. I mean, you have to burn a lot of Glory just to get from 15 to 20.
Storyteller on the other hand, I always found clunky and unintuitive and plain difficult to use.
No matter how much I writhe, I always get back to RQ/BRP as the most playable system, warts and all.
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