Everybody, please answer these questions.

[Mike Holmes]

NPC descriptions are good to, but maybe let actual stats be left to whoever runs it

That's an important idea. What I'd do is to make them relative. That is, stat things relative to the players abilities. So, instead of saying that the big villain has a CP of 17, say he has X+3, where X is the highest CP of characters expected to encouter him. That sort of thing.

The real art would be ensuring that the conflicts that occured would take into account the SAs that led the characters to the conflict.

Mike