Great Responsibility: Introduction

Ever since I read the new PHB, I've felt that the 4e rules lent themselves well to a superheroes game.

Like it or not, 4e is a game where characters can do a bunch of cool things, and superheroes is a Genre where characters do a bunch of cool things.

The new combat rules provide a simple-but-sturdy base that can be built on with exception-based powers. Combat roles make it easy to define how a superheroic character fights even without the benefit of classes.

And the unified and silo-ed power progression means that you can easily choose the cool things you want your character to do without getting bogged down in a complicated point buy system.

So I've been spending the past month figuring out the best way to express superhero characters within the framework of the 4e rules, and I think I've developed a pretty neat system.

In my next series of posts, I'll explain how that system works by re-creating a certain friendly neighborhood wall-crawler.