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That's really more of a people-with-powers setting. You can do that with some systems, but its not going to look much like a superhero...
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I have to point out that's back to something you've been on the other side of in other threads: "You can't play this kind of character...
Mar 15, 2026
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Like I said, the way the damage save system works, you'd just have supers that folded up ridiculously frequently on a first shot without...
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Its not been infrequent for it to not even be close. So at that point, you've got mostly people in setting making guesses that aren't...
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Statistically the most rare colouration for humans in Ginger, at less than 2%. Blondes are more common at maybe 5%, depending on the...
Mar 14, 2026
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And during the interim period they had people like Jessica Cruz and Jo Mullein (and Jade far as that goes). Let's not act like those...
Mar 14, 2026
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I think that's a pretty big overstatement with M&M at least. Pull the metacurrency out of it and the damage/effect system would break...
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All the parties involved were fictional, and the measurements were done to support a narrative, not to establish objective reality.
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If there's no consistency, I'm not really sure I see how relevant any fictional measurement matters. At that point its just color...
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That doesn't mean they'll keep redoing the gear constantly.
Mar 14, 2026
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It depends on how important consistency of expression of the former is to you. Truth is, most longtime supers tend to not be quite the...
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That is, perhaps, one of the only major aspects of the series that hasn't been seen in mass media at this point. Plenty of series have...
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Smith had a very black and white view of alien evil sometimes. He always leaned into that. You saw it regularly throughout the...
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I saw it the first day of theatre release, however, I knew the source material (and was a little disappointed that Dejah Thoris wasn't...
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I will point out she's presented as the most powerful of the female mutants, at least in potential, however. You could take that tact...
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