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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ValhallaGH" data-source="post: 4868527" data-attributes="member: 41187">You seem to have some pretty good answers, but I'll throw my pennies in.1) Extremely easy.  The most difficult part is deciding what abilities you want to use to model a particular concept.  Scaling power is a matter of table convention; simply discuss it with your players and you shouldn't have any real problems.  Example: When you can choose between Absorption, Limited Impervious, and Immunity to make your ice dwarves cold-proof, which one you use depends upon how cold immune you want them to be (Immune to a point and highly resistant after, Immune to a point and normally reistant after, and totally immune, respectively).2) Very well.  A few abilities (Paladin's Divine Grace) are brokenly good at the price D&D charges, so they aren't there; instead the player can simply buy good abilities rather than use a cludge.  3) Any given spell is fairly easy to reproduce, though you have to get creative for a number of them (focus on the idea behind the spell, not its specific mechanics; Example: Guards & Wards spell).  But that can be a lot of work if a given spell isn't going to be used.  What's far more interesting, to me, is how easy it is to create new, balanced, spells and powers, and how much more interesting they tend to be than most of the ones in D&D.Side Note: I've been converting some of the spells used by the various dragonmarks for an M&M-Eberron game I want to run.  Using M&M extras, flaws, drawbacks and power feats, a lot of spells up to 6th level come out at 1 to 4 power points (includes the Unreliable [5 uses per day] [-1], or my variant Unreliable [2 uses per day] [-2], flaw).  And some of the purely flavor ones, like prestidigitation, can come out at negative points, if you require a power at all.Good luck.</blockquote>

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