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I don't have my books in front of me, but what games like Champions and M&M 2E did was make Powers as broad as possible and then pile on modifiers so you could actively build any power you wanted. 3E reduced the number and complexity of modifiers for ease of use, which has its value, but in...

I LOVE Brave New World in that 90s way. My favorite thing about it was it was the first game I remember where you chose to do cool stuff (stunts? tricks?) AFTER you rolled, rather than the old school punitive mechanics for trying cool stuff. It is pretty dated now and I always have hoped there...

Did you play 2E? Its chargen was much more robust.

JLU was explicitly about showcasing all the weird edge cases in the DCU.

I did not want to start a whole thread for this weird question, so... Are there any folks on YouTube who make video game playthroughs as highly edited "movies" or "shows"? Like, if I want to watch someone play Skyrim but it is a STORY, not just a let's play, does that exist?

Thank you. For clarity, I am very well acquainted with running con games.

I ultimately decided on the following (blurb first draft): Being a Crook in Bastion City is hard, between the Capes looking to get the cuffs on you and the Kingpins looking to get their hooks in you. But there are banks to rob and art to steal, and you have your trusty super-tech to make it...

You can just play the d6 version.

FYI: Shadowdark Compatible Bundle of Holding https://bundleofholding.com/presents/ShadowCompat

You seem to be missing the point of the carousing system. it is explicitly there to eat gold so that the characters have motivation to continue to adventure. In Shadowdark, the "payment" for that is a minor XP boost. It is genre enforcement.

We aren't talking about role, we are talking about power source and genre. Sure, it is all "fantastical" but that doesn't make the genre "fantasy" unless you use a definition so broad it is useless. That is like when people call Star Trek a 'fantasy." That's true, but tells you nothing about...

I am not sure that is quite right. There are, of course, superhero genre stories where not everything goes (The Boys, for example), but superhero universes like Marvel or DC are multi-genre settings where fantasy, space opera, horror, post-humanity, technothriller, etc.. all interact. When some...

Tales of the Valiant by Kobold Press. ToV is a 5E compatible game. From the Black Flag SRD: LUCK Every PC has a special resource called Luck. You use Luck to influence the result of any check. GAINING LUCK W hen you create your character, start with 0 Luck. You gain Luck in the following ways...

Maybe something more granular than Inspiration and incorporate the Luck rules from ToV? Alternatively, you can include the possibility of minor magic items like healing potions or weapon oils or whatever.

This still gets me EVERY TIME.

Oh, sure, I was just responding to @Micah Sweet regarding 2E vs 3E broadly. I think I want to use the new Marvel Multiverse game, mostly because it reads pretty good and it gives me an excuse to try a new supers RPG -- which are the best kinds of RPGs. Always.

I had a long running supers campaign (mostly old school Champions players) that transitioned from 2E to 3E and many of them were frustrated with the limitations on building characters. I don't think it is a problem for most players, but these guys were tinkerers.

Character generation in 2E (especially with the Ultimate Power book) is significantly more robust.