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At the overall-mission or adventure level, I'll set things (i.e. pick a module or write something homebrew) such that the challenges are...

If you run across a warband, you're probably not going to be surprised, and you're probably not going to fight them head on. I start...

As informed by the initial die roll, right? The dice roll directly informs the actual outcome; all the other mechanical effects and-or...

I think that's fair to an extent, but I think it risks consequence shopping (i.e. picking the one that rather than being most authentic...

Yeah, the writers are treating canon as merely suggestions/guidelines on SNW.

In superhero RPGs it's the giant, bubble-lettered onomatopoeia that keeps popping up over my head..."BLAM!" "POW!"...that always yanks...

To my mind, willpower and luck are not real things that can explicitly affect the world, or at least are represented by stats for the...

For one thing, this post is absolutely full of subjective opinion presented as objective fact. I don't take anything you say here as...

Like I said, I feel genre emulation is important for supers games (an exception to my general rule). How it was handled in Marvel...

They are resources whose source is outside the setting. That is quite different, at least to me.

Characters have powers for reasons that make sense in the setting. Most of the time, those powers work in ways that fit some kind of...

I think in this approach (which I like, at least in some contexts), to answer your subsequent question, it's not that there are no...

I read it over, because I love Marvel, but all the stuff you mentioned took the game too far away from Sim for me to enjoy it. Even...

A resource on the Player-side to make winning more likely, and on the GM side to make events feel more exciting, both for dramatic...

So the Player decides how the NPC feels? With no mechanical consequences (at least you didn't mention any)? Again, how is this a compromise?