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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 4199074" data-attributes="member: 4275">Well, I think you can see advancement in plenty of heroes, though it's not at an even rate, no. I mean, look at the original 5 X-men now. They're all considerably better at what they do.Spider-man is also a classic case for superhero advancement.Iron Man has advanced as well, Id say Ant-Man/Giant-Man/Yellowjacket has as well, though with all retraining its sometimes hard to tell.Other characters, like Cap, come into the Silver Age more or less fully formed.But I am in favor of story driven advancement for my games period. That's more of a sweet spot problem than a genre issue though. Freeform advancement allows groups to spend less time in the levels that dont appeal to their play style and more time in the levels that do.See I think Nightcrawler had fairly clear advancement in the early days of the New X-men.If you recall, he learned his "multi-port" trick, where he used teleporting to attack multiple times, carrying another person while teleporting, increasing his range, and the sword skills were all gained during Claremont's early New X-men run. I'd also contend that Storm advanced during that period, becoming more of a leader, and Wolverine too.A lot of the "revelations" of his past life, which seemed to expand his skill repertoir (becoming a stealthy ninja-samurai with Japanese weapon and language skills) could be seen as advancement, even though in story he "always had those abilities". they were just never shown.</blockquote>

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