Also, yes, a lot of this combat is inspired by Betrayal at House on the Hill which is the best game I've ever played.

@Maenad Seems pretty good. Seperating Combat out as its own stat is a nice idea too:

Is the system skillless too? Just roll with stats and good RP? I could be down for something like that (with the right group of course. Cue flashbacks to a game of Dusk City Outlaws I was in <____<)

@Gyrfalcon2138 yeah, I was thinking skillless + RP for minimizing bulk aspects. I'm down with RPing skills in, though - "my character loves puppies and volunteers at the animal shelter" could result in an animal companion. "My character really wants to learn guitar" could result in performance: guitar, etc. (In other words, downtime is valuable and can be spent acquiring skills).

@Gyrfalcon2138 but I would rather an index card with a character description and 5 stats than a 3 page packet with detailed number crunching.

@Maenad Yeah for sure.

One thing I liked from FATE based systems was Aspects: you get a small bonus if you can somehow apply one of your aspects to a scene (or, the GM can apply a small penalty based on those aspects)

That could add a little extra flavor to characters and it could maybe give a quick +/- 1 (which is huge in your system)