From the introduction: Many role-playing games, if not most of them, have character creation systems that take a long time. One character may take an hour, at least, to create. Take four Actors and you’re looking at four hours before you even get to play the game. In EPICS, characters begin play with a basic outline, which takes only a couple of minutes. Even with a large group of people, you’ll be playing in no time. ... [J]ust behind the scenes, hidden away from the sight of the average citizen, there are dark forces at work. Certain individuals possess strange powers, and the governments try to hide this fact by finding and "dealing" with such individuals. Even more terrifying, evil supernatural creatures exist, feeding on the unwary population of the world.