Recent content by Thomas Shey

The question ends up being whether there are more broad-superhero fans or people who just really like one subset of the brand output. I don't doubt at all that there are no small amount of people who really like the Batman related characters and really don't care about others for example, and...

As @Reynard says, most of the solutions for that aren't a satisfactory fill-in for the actual plan. You can argue that's a case of people having multiple wants that are not really compatible, of course.

We always refer it to defaulting back to "The Irish Plan". Part of it, of course, is an extent plan can easily not have a good drop-back state if a few critical parts just don't work out, and even if it could that tends to require even more planning, and as some point parts of most groups just...

[Duplicate because my connect is being derpy.]

Feel free to point out where I suggested what you were doing was not an RPG; it absolutely is, and my feeling it excludes some things doesn't change that. In fact, I've mentioned its pretty much the way the hobby started where social or mental processes were absolutely done by players directly...

I'm just saying I'd think whether you want to be telling people who play different than you and have different priorities that you don't think they're playing an RPG when you're describing playstyles that have been in the hobby for a half century. I realize you said "doesn't feel like it to...

I have to just note that there are plenty of people who, effectively, play RPGs as single-character board games where they get to define the character associate with the play piece and sometimes have discussions in character. The line you're drawing here is crossed back and forth all the time...

That's one way, but its not close to a primary source, because you'd get one Hero Point out of it, and you're going to need more than that. And no, I don't have any sign that sudden-death takedowns are an intended result of M&M, and its one of the few games I was involved in extensively enough...

Sometimes the desires we have are strings that don't meet in the middle. But I just wanted to note that if you want someone to be able to play Batman as he's commonly depicted, you have to let something go here. True superhero settings (as contrast with people-with-powers settings) have some...

Good gods either Frontier, Discord, or both were being big jerks tonight.

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 setting at all, other than the fact powers are present.

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 unless you're as smart as he is" which is in practice "You can't play him unless you're also a strategic and logistical genius."

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 Hero Points, because the D20 roll has so much swing in it. and the categories are so broad. Something like Champions can get by without use of metacurrency...

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 particularly well founded. The Spider-Man note has hardly been a unique situation.

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 weren't changes; they just changed again. DC is conservative and tends to revert to the mean on their characters over time, but acting like things never change...