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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...

When you get like this you're worthless to talk to and I'm not going to bother further.

You can actual burn a lot of points for a Batman expie on skills and talents. Only reason it isn't a bigger problem is Overall levels can allow you to avoid investing too much in any one skill.

It wasn't identical, but there was a lot of overlap; the only heavily different items were its invisibility sub-in and some powers that (at the time) were unique to it. Note that by the time of 4e that was no longer true however. Well, yeah, after the time of 4e there were no true...

I count "pretty good" as "got well over what they asked for" not absolute amount. If you don't need a lot, asking for a lot makes no sense. Nothing is going to get those high end assigns unless they have a popular IP or are hooked to a creator with a very strong presence. I don't think that...

Eh. In a number of places, peasants learning to use slings for things like hunting rabbits may have approached being universal. Not everywhere and when had the whole "all huntable forests belong to the nobles".

Why would I limit it to Kickstarters that high? Most of the time when kickstarters want that much money, they're planning to do a lot of hardcopy material and add-ons and/or are big ticket producers in the first place. I'm looking at KSes that got multiples of what they asked for, but still...

It doesn't hurt that the proper materials for crossbows, while more expensive over all, were much more common outside of Great Britain. There are other styles of bow that were more comparable, but they were also dependent on regional materials to one extent or another.

I don't doubt that's true, but I'll just note I've seen a number of non-IP based games that had pretty good kickstarters and then vanished without a trace. They were interesting enough to get a kickstarter through (sometimes a pretty successful one) but then just didn't propagate any further...

Though often those are toward the cheaper end, and for non-specialists are mostly melee weapons. Ranged attackers from the commoners usually were guys who had their own weapons for one reason or another (different places what this meant varied). Your typical levies were probably talking spears...

I think there's some virtues with some executions there (card decks have, in practice, "memory" in the way a die doesn't) but haven't found them practical for various reasons, even more so since I now play virtually.

I was assuming we were talking mostly about the latter; I still find it a little annoying if there's more than one or maybe two special characters because I'd have to remember what symbol was associated with what number space. I'm not actually familiar with too many games that are using...

Its been an extremely common thing since the start of the hobby, though often in more minor ways. I mean, the truth is, a lot of D&D and other sandboxy game parties are self-formed. If there's a character that's just, well, annoying to most of the group, why are they there? Because its...

Well, honestly, its not like complaining about things you don't like, even when you aren't forced to engage with them, is exactly uncommon in the world. Sometimes venting is venting.

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 games do any worse than the hobby as a whole here.

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 if you're using any real scope outside a supers game, because they show their roots. This includes such basic things as the fact its far easier to knock someone...

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 elements but was a bit more lightweight. Unfortunately, at one point I realized a problem from my own POV about the system, and once I did I couldn't unsee it. I...

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 classic was thieves stealing from the party. If an NPC did that they'd be dead in a ditch in two minutes flat.

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. It gets pretty tedious, man, and doesn't tell anyone in the discussion likely anything they don't already know.