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Yup; in M&M, you also ran into some of the ways some offensive abilities interacted with Hero Points and GM Fiat. In practice after...

Yes. On the "main" M&M site, The Atomic Think Tank, there's several members currently converting their 3e characters over to 4e using...

Essentially Wildcard skills are bundles of related skills priced more expensively than normal. They are definable for any campaign you...

People can be super-optimistic about AI with anything, and that's part of the problem - the optimism is not directly linked to the...

This is very similar to my feelings, and why Savage Worlds Super Powers Companion is my personal favourite system. For me, it...

Re: The Superman/Batman problem in HERO If you’re clever, there’s ways to make it work. First of all, assume both have the same...

This might feel like a lazy way out of this question... I think the most successful games communicate clearly what type of superhero...

I also should note that the question of detail and complexity can muddy this discussion; Champions is extremely detailed and definitely...

That, of course, it absolutely is. But in the context of trying to represent the way things work in the extent superhero comics of the...

No, its really not, and repeating it doesn't make it true. If its "simulating" something its the way superpowers and such classically...

Hero came out of an era of simulationist game design and, yea, it's a physics engine, trying to simulate a version of the real world...

It’s a great game. Doesn’t get the love it deserves.

Hm. Ever read or tried Wushu? It's a very narrative system where players gain bonuses to an action by describing how their character...

I don't know. I'm sufficiently spooked. Humanity - as a group - isn't that smart, I think many of you would agree. So. We've created...

Enough already. I already hate the word "trad" as much as I can feel emotion about a word. You can't make me hate it more.