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Its hard to see to what degree that's really true, because the truth is a lot of rpgs are flashes in the pan. I'm not sure IP focused...

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

The greater degree they do that, the more they tend to fail though; the assumptions baked into it as a superhero game tend to fail out...

This is entirely legit. I'd somewhat moved on a bit myself for quite some time, going over to M&M because it had a lot of Champs...

The tendency to put up with actions from other PCs you likely wouldn't from an NPC with the same apparent personality or actions. The...

Your biases here aren't the problem. The fact you have to bring it up any time you see anything that smacks of it, however, a bit is...

I tend to think a game that pretty much demands them is offloading a little too much mechanical weight on the dice (I make that...

I really do have to question how ongoing PvP approaches to things would work barring "PC Glow". And why I'd bother to keep playing with...

Eh. That's part of a set of terms I think was flawed from the get-go (because of how simulationism was handled) so that's a...

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...

A bad GM is one that engages in various harmful behaviors, such as: arbitrary and capricious decisions, bad-faith rules interpretation...

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

I suspect it was less a failure of imagination than conservativism about getting too far from the elements that had proven themselves to...

Kind of... G: Dungeon Fantasy is moving dead tree, and is a subset of GURPS 4 mechanics, the materials being stand-alone. Doing well...