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Cortex Plus: Products, System & Reception

The Cortex Plus System is a toolkit RPG system that evolved from Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd's Cortex System. The system was the basis for the Firefly, Marvel, and Battlestar Galactica tabletop role playing games. Cortex was sold to Fandom in 2019.

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Cortex Plus topic overview

The analysis highlights Products, System and Reception as prominent areas in the source structure around Cortex Plus.

Related topics
12
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
16
Extracted relationships
18
Concept neighborhoods
12
Bridge connections
16

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

System · 5 topics
Reception · 3 topics
Overview · 2 topics
Published games using Cortex Plus · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Designers
Cam Banks
Genres
Role-playing game
Publication
2010
Publishers
Margaret Weis Productions

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

System

Published games using Cortex Plus

Reception

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Cortex Plus connects Entity context

The extracted context around Cortex Plus shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Cortex Plus → Another, Captain America, ENnie Awards, Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, Reception, Wolverine Another extracted example is Cortex Plus → Cortex Plus Hacker's Guide, Cortex System, Kickstarter, The Cortex Plus, Unlike. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Cortex Plus

Top relations

related to Reception · 6
Cortex Plus → Another, Captain America, ENnie Awards, Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, Reception, Wolverine
related to System · 5
Cortex Plus → Cortex Plus Hacker's Guide, Cortex System, Kickstarter, The Cortex Plus, Unlike
Designers · 1
Cortex Plus → Cam Banks
Genres · 1
Cortex Plus → Role-playing game
Publication · 1
Cortex Plus → 2010
Publishers · 1
Cortex Plus → Margaret Weis Productions
is a · 1
Cortex Plus → roll and keep system in which you roll one die from each category and keep the two highest dice in your dice pool.The Cortex Plus system has been used for four published games a…

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

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Cortex Plus relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 18 structured relationships around Cortex Plus. Examples in this analysis include Cortex Plus → Designers → Cam Banks and Cortex Plus → Genres → Role-playing game. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Cortex PlusDesignersCam Banks1.00infobox
Cortex PlusGenresRole-playing game1.00infobox
Cortex PlusPublication20101.00infobox
Cortex PlusPublishersMargaret Weis Productions1.00infobox
Cortex Plusis aroll and keep system in which you roll one die from each category and keep the two highest dice in your dice pool.The Cortex Plus system has been used for four published games a…0.90text
Wolverineinstance ofAnother theme picked up on in the system is the way that it allows balance between characters0.80text
Captain America while having enough meat to distinguish theminstance ofAnother theme picked up on in the system is the way that it allows balance between characters0.80text
Cortex Plusrelated to ReceptionReception0.60section
Cortex Plusrelated to ReceptionMarvel Heroic Roleplaying0.60section
Cortex Plusrelated to ReceptionENnie Awards0.60section
Cortex Plusrelated to ReceptionAnother0.60section
Cortex Plusrelated to ReceptionWolverine0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Cortex Plus bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Plus, Margaret and One. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Margaret
    • One
    • Productions
    • Reception
    • Weis
    • Games
    • System
    • Game
    • Published
    • Role-playing
    • Using
  • cortex plus
    • Plus
    • Margaret
    • One
    • Productions
    • Reception
    • Weis
    • Games
    • System
    • Game
    • Published
    • Role-playing
    • Using
  • cortex system
    • Plus
    • Games
    • Published
    • Using
    • Margaret
    • One
    • Productions
    • Reception
    • Weis
    • System
    • Four
    • Game
  • firefly role-playing game
    • Best
    • Ennie
    • Heroic
    • Leverage
    • Marvel
    • Reception
    • Roleplaying
    • Rules
    • Battlestar
    • Galactica
    • Game
    • Games
  • system
    • Games
    • Published
    • Using
    • Four
    • One
    • Playing
    • Productions
    • Role
    • Weis
    • Game
    • Marvel
    • Basis
  • published games using cortex plus
    • Using
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    • Four
    • One
    • Game
    • Margaret
    • Marvel
    • Productions
    • Published
    • Reception
    • Role-playing
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  • smallville roleplaying game
    • Rules
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    • Ennie
    • Heroic
    • Leverage
    • Reception
    • Roleplaying
    • Games
    • Marvel
    • Published
    • Role-playing
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  • marvel heroic roleplaying
    • Leverage
    • Roleplaying
    • Rules
    • Best
    • Ennie
    • Heroic
    • Marvel
    • Playing
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    • Battlestar

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Cortex Plus, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Cortex Plus with System. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Cortex PlusSystem · splits 11 ⟂ 6
Cortex PlusReception · splits 13 ⟂ 4
Cortex PlusOverview · splits 14 ⟂ 3
Cortex PlusPublished games using Cortex Plus · splits 14 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Cortex Plus

Nodes17
Edges16
Triples18
Avg. degree1.88
Density0.117647
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Cortex Plus to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Products, System & Reception, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Cortex Plus · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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