Recent content by Thomas Shey

It still suffered in some area from playing the "price by rarity" game which I think works really badly with superheroes at least. I felt unqualified to say since, while I think I own the 4e Powers book in PDF, I haven't really had the wherewithal to read it.

This was actually one of the problems for people trying to play conventional supers with Wild Talents (and the fix they had for it swung too far the other way).

GURPS was probably the last game I'd have tried to have work with superheroes (as compared to people-with-powers) because so many of its assumptions fight it. And best I can tell at least with the pre-4e versions, it worked about as well as I expected.

As an aside, this is also how 13th Age mooks work.

I don't remember the exact number, but Back in the Day our SR1e decker had to be given a bowl to roll all his D6 in, which suggests to me it may have been in the 30-40 range.

Yeah, as I referenced earlier, you saw a lot of this with representing speedsters; the simple, stupid and over-expensive way to do some of it was to throw a bunch of Speed at them, but as Ruin Explorer refenced above, that didn't actually represent the way you saw them work in most of the source...

Well, it doesn't help that some people are simultaneously critical of D&D, but really vague about what parts they don't like and whether its a generic dislike or a contextual one. I try mostly not to discuss my general dislike of D&D proper (and to a less degree of its kin) because I'd have to...

There's always been a tendency with NPC writeups to just write down whatever and ignore perfectly functional build constructs that any actual player trying for the effect would do. Anytime I ever saw a Hero (or even M&M far as that goes) character with multiple full cost offensive powers on...

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 running two and playing in three fairly lengthy M&M campaigns, it became abundantly clear the best thing to do most of the time was just hammer away with damage...

This is all a fair argument; a lot of it will depend on what you think he needs in the way of Talents (if any) and how much you tie up in the Batcave and a couple of the vehicles (if you're basing the Batplane on the DCAU version its pretty punchy). (I'm betting that Magneto build was...

One has to remember Netflix has a very specific metric about continuing a show (other streamers may sometimes do something similar, but Netiflix is very blunt about it); "Is this show bringing in new subscriptions?" I'm not sure exactly how they decide that, but at the point it isn't, they...

I'm afraid I just don't see it that way, and I've certainly known a lot of comics fans that don't. I don't know this part of this argument can be anything but a question of taste and perception. (The only think I might agree with is there's problems representing the movement speed of supers on...

One of the factors that mitigated any tendency to just treat it as all super fights all the time (at least when it was actually paid attention to) was the Disadvantage system was essentially mandatory. Some of those were primarily combat related like Vulnerabilities and Susceptibilities, but...

Welcome to the wonderful world of not finding quite anything satisfactory here (though have you ever given the current edition of Prowlers and Paragons a look by chance? Still might be too crunchy for you, but its kind of a compromise system.)

That's a common argument about Batman, actually. But the issue still is Hero is fairly skill-splitty, and just talking about things Batman does pretty regularly is going to eat a lot of point; he's classically the best detective in the DC universe, at one time was considered the third best...