But you don't understand! The Wraeththu are just better than us, so they know how to make things that look weak from the point of view of a dumb, inferior human, but they're actually even better than katanas, which we all know to be the pinnacle of human weaponsmithing!
Cities Without Number's paid version has what is very clearly "Shadowrun without the Shadowrun rules." I haven't tried much of the system, and none with the magic stuff, but it might be pretty good?
If Konsi is thinking what I'm thinking, this might be like a "if you get every answer wrong on the test you get an A, since you obviously know what you're doing" thing.
I'm sorry, if the bandits didn't want to get killed, they shouldn't have jumped adventurers. I'm sorry if they had a home life, but it's not my fault my group defended itself.
God, can you imagine what a nightmare it would be to play D&D with the Warners? Though as long as you just went with the flow, it'd probably be fine; they only really harass people who are too stuck up.
"So ya know what happens when you..." is a terrifying way to begin a description of such a thing, too!