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Yep. Forgot about power stunts entirely. Karma was a critical meta-currency.

IIRC, it was also the way to unlock more Power Stunts, or how to use your power(s) in new ways. It was fairly common for one of the more...

blink. Karma, its meta-currency, was central to effective play in FASERIP.

I strongly disagree with this part. Is part of that whole physical vs mental skills divide, where to play someone smart, you have to be...

Karma is 100% a core mechanic of Marvel FASERIP. You can't remove it without crippling the game.

Karma allows you to succeed where you would often fail, like superheroes do when facing long odds. Further, karma is the way that...

It's not a narrative conceit. He's smart enough to have thought that far ahead. Because there is no way to accurately simulate that...

If there's no consistency, I'm not really sure I see how relevant any fictional measurement matters. At that point its just color...

Marvel FASERIP literally had the karma mechanic as one of it's primary mechanics. Karmia is an entirely meta currency.

I agree with this. And it is 100% true at low levels. But, we reached tier 3 at the end of our campaign. And while no one could "suck"...

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My point is that they've basically started over with a bunch of heroes. When Superman died and came back he was very different than...

Not a bad idea to help your players along. For best results: Design magic items that interact with those classes in the way the player...

The point is that comics, even for heroes like Spiderman and the Hulk, have never been consistent, let alone highly consistent. Hell...

The point is that measurement doesn't matter when the measurements are 3, 7, 4, 3, 9, 12, 2, 5, and ?(whatever the next guy is going to...