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Personally I'm against switching M&M to hit points. The dramatic and sometimes surprising damage is part of what makes M&M feel comic booky (you swoop in and clock the villain, you don't whittle him away until he gets low on hit points). If having the defender roll to resist damage feels too...

I assume you mean during character creation. It's a common problem with point-buy systems, moreso in the superhero genre since the genre itself allows almost any concept.

Just wanted to butt in for a second to clarify: the Universal Combat Maneuver is not a feat, it's intended as something anyone can do, literally a "one size fits all" rule to cover all the improvised creative things players want to do. Since it's one rule to cover many options, it's easy to...

Thanks! I didn't read Church & State until long after it's release, and I'm sorry I didn't read it sooner. Brand Robins (no relation) did some very creative/groundbreaking structural things, like setting it up so you could play any of the scenes in any order depending on how the game unfolded...

Here's a related thread specific to M&M adventures: http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?t=22477

You should be able to easily duplicate anything that you can do with Boost by just Flawing powers. Electricity Absorption that lets you Blast is just Immunity (electricity) and Blast (flaw: only after being hit by electricity). You can even flaw the Blast so that it can only be used at the same...

Hey, you found one! I'm actually impressed, though I think you'd agree that's more a plot device/villain thing than a character you would actually build. He's an adventure premise really. Yep. Folks like Loki often just create whole supervillains with a wave of their hand, but that's definitely...

[sorry to butt in, but I figure since I got quoted earlier it's fair game ;)] Boost is broken in several ways, either as an exploit or just as a pain for bookkeeping (who wants to recalculate the number of power points every round and figure out current rank?), many of which you've already hit...

Capes is cool (and by cool I mean groundbreakingly interesting) but it is a very different thing than running a normal RPG with a rotating GM. Capes has no GM, no set adventure just whatever emerges from the scenes as each participant takes a turn picking the next one, players pick whatever...

There are two separate trade-offs, attack and defense. Reducing your attack lets you buy a higher rank for an attack power that requires a save (or vice versa). On the other hand a defense trade-off let's you reduce your defense to increase your toughness (or vice versa). An attack trade-off...

I did say "great" thanks, which has got to be a little better than the regular kind. At least that's what the guy selling it told me... All seems to be working perfectly. Thanks (again) for the fast response.

Can the powers that be add Lame Mage Productions to the reviews database and give me access so I can add products? My thanks will be great, if not quite eternal.

In the "Fiat's not Cheating" vein, there are really two kinds of Fiat: within the rules and outside the rules. If you let a villain have a virtual hero point and re-roll a save, well you are just using the same rules the heroes use with their hero points. It shouldn't feel like cheating at all...

I recall that name getting roundly mocked during during playtesting... oh wait! My NDA! :eek:

I'd second the PL guidelines Jim laid out, but with the caveat that a lot depends on the combination of characters. Characters with more extreme trade-offs have a lot less effect against opponents with the opposite trade-off -- even if they are same PL, a speedster who has a 15 attack/5 damage...

Try the Run Club trick. It circumvents some of the resistance to trying out the big seat.

Usually always, but starting a Run Club has shaken things up a bit (in a good way).

Personally I'm also expecting a fruit basket from my players. Possibly with some kind of booby trap or ancient curse attached. They grow up so fast...

This bears repeating, because I'm not sure I really got it until I joined. The publishers on YGN literally run YGN.

Yep, just so. Even when the games don't turn out so well, you should love your GM for trying.