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Originally Posted by Mallus  Mainly because I don't think D&D 3e offers DM's 'the tools to do, literally, anything they wanted'. It's nowhere near that flexible. Unlike more full-fledged toolkit systems like GURPS, Hero and even the d20-based M&M. |
You're absolutely right. I've recently started running M&M and have a lot of experience with the HERO System and they handle things very differently than
3e.
3e would never let you do anything you wanted with a character, even with a lot of supplements. How could a class and level based system? Those mechanics are by their nature limiting, that's their aim. And rightly so. Simplicity in communicating a PC's job and power level combined with simplicity of PC generation is a major selling point of D&D.
Owning more supplements, like Bo9S or the Completes or whatever would give you a lot more options but you were still much more limited than you are in M&M and HERO. It's a totally different approach.
Hong was, I think, wrong when he talked about the HEROisation of D&D.
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