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In the case of teams vs. single supervillain, even being a Wild Card won't be enough alone, and what you need to make that work can create some potential problems in SW Supers.

I'd be willing to put at least a small side bet that's not how most people running that would do it. People don't tend to associate individualized opponents with Extras.

Its a person running LevelUp who apparently wants something different, I'd guess because its as close to what they want as they could get people to play.

I suspect that's another problem with using SW for supers in a lot of cases; you're either fighting a single well defended enemy (and that tends to reinforce one of the core problems with using it for supers) or you're fighting an enemy superteam which is likely all Wild Cards.

Though that should only be a problem if the weapons choices and the Toughness numbers are way out of sync routinely (if the dice just hate you that won't help, but that can make you feel ineffectual in pretty much any game that uses them to resolve combat).

That's at least a different take; its usually the handwavy nature of the non-mecha stuff (or just the dissonance between the two) that gets people about it in a negative way.

I think there can be a bit of a middle ground here. They're bus drivers. They still have a route they need to follow (to various extent) to get where the AP is going, but they're key to getting it there; they're active particpants, not just observers. They don't have a lot of broad agency...

Well, I still think its post-apocalyptic--one of the classics of the genre, Hiero's Journey was probably at least that far down, and Daybreak 2250/Starman's Son was a pretty fair bit down too--but you do need to make the distinction between "during the apocalypse", "soon after the apocalypse"...

Depends how far back the apocalypse was. A lot of SF and fantasy settings have an apocalypse in their background, but its far enough back things have recovered reasonably well and its not tragic anymore; its just a reset and need for people to to rebuild and learn what's happened beyond their...

I think the implication of that question always is that the only changes that will happen are things you cause, either directly or indirectly. Otherwise the whole thought experiment is a gotcha.

That's been the case the with the only person I (still) have on ignore from virtually the day I did it.

I wouldn't completely write off doing so, but I'm not going to say its not a strike against it.

That wouldn't exactly land well with me were I one of the remaining players, and it doesn't matter what the exiting player did.

In the case of AwoN, as I recall it has a selection of default settings for the (I want to say either three or four) type of apocalypses it talks about, but more than most of Crawford's other Without Number games really leans into rolling (sometimes literally) your own.

I also have to say I'd personally be more likely to give something a look with a one time purchase, even if it was halfway substantial, than a subscription. I'm not a fan of, effectively, renting software.

Though not what I currently use, I have to admit Foundry would probably be my drop back choice if I switched at this time.

I can state the second here was a pretty good setting; the first version of it had a bit of a design problem at one point, but the author fixed it in the second edition. There's also the question of what translates into "post-apocalypse" here. It technically fits, but I suspect the OP wouldn't...

Since we've had a habit of keeping character sheets and running characters for people when missing, I'd just do that until an opportunity for them to leave arrived, and then not make a big deal about the reasons unless it seemed a very unlikely development.

This is not a universal view of being a GM, and GM-only choice here. Its traditional, but its not a law of nature.

Genuine question here: even with VTT's that can roll both ways, I'd think a given session is still being hosted one way or the other, so it seems like this is one of those things different people in a group both can't have it the way they want it. Am I wrong here?