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<blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 4089162" data-attributes="member: 9053">To me, a lot of what you're talking about makes the game more interesting from a roleplaying perspective and not less: so Eladrin can teleport short distances every five minutes. When a character like that is captured, if his captors know this, they will likely try and engineer something around it, whether it's a lead room (maybe cold iron is more appropriate for their powers?) or just keep kickin' the character to keep him unconscious. Maybe the guards might just think about killing the character outright since they can't hold him ... and have to be persuaded by the rest of the group to not do so. Thinking about the roleplaying possibilities for this kind of a situation makes for, to my mind, a more interesting game.Similarly, suppose a character has a power that will allow them to knock down a metal door in just a few minutes. As long as the GM is aware of this, there's no problem, he just has to keep it in mind. &quot;We can just knock down the vault door with my 'Mountain Hammer!'&quot; &quot;Okay, but won't that put all the guards in the entire fortress on alert?&quot; &quot;Hmmn, well we'll just have to chance it ... &quot;If there is a published adventure, one would hope that the designers would take this into consideration.I've run a lot of HERO (and, more recently, M&amp;M) so I see the opportunity to do a lot of unusual &quot;outside the box&quot; thinking as a good thing: it keeps me on my toes when I run the game!I think the only situation where this would be a bad thing would be where you have an awful GM who is trying to run an entirely railroaded plot. Since I've read Lizard's posts literally for years, I strongly suspect that there will be no problem with bad GMing in his games: quite the reverse!--Steve</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SteveC, post: 4089162, member: 9053"] To me, a lot of what you're talking about makes the game more interesting from a roleplaying perspective and not less: so Eladrin can teleport short distances every five minutes. When a character like that is captured, if his captors know this, they will likely try and engineer something around it, whether it's a lead room (maybe cold iron is more appropriate for their powers?) or just keep kickin' the character to keep him unconscious. Maybe the guards might just think about killing the character outright since they can't hold him ... and have to be persuaded by the rest of the group to not do so. Thinking about the roleplaying possibilities for this kind of a situation makes for, to my mind, a more interesting game. Similarly, suppose a character has a power that will allow them to knock down a metal door in just a few minutes. As long as the GM is aware of this, there's no problem, he just has to keep it in mind. "We can just knock down the vault door with my 'Mountain Hammer!'" "Okay, but won't that put all the guards in the entire fortress on alert?" "Hmmn, well we'll just have to chance it ... " If there is a published adventure, one would hope that the designers would take this into consideration. I've run a lot of HERO (and, more recently, M&M) so I see the opportunity to do a lot of unusual "outside the box" thinking as a good thing: it keeps me on my toes when I run the game! I think the only situation where this would be a bad thing would be where you have an awful GM who is trying to run an entirely railroaded plot. Since I've read Lizard's posts literally for years, I strongly suspect that there will be no problem with bad GMing in his games: quite the reverse! --Steve [/QUOTE]

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