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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 2686070" data-attributes="member: 2804">I hate to be negative, but I would avoid Heroes Unlimited. I used to own every Palladium Book under the sun. Including Heroes Unlimited. The game is simple and all super powers are pre-built. Meaning you just pick from a list. You also don't have the ability to customize powers at all. For experienced gamers, or for comic book fans, you'll be frustrated by the inability to accurately model many comic book characters. You'll find yourself creating characters around the rules, instead of using the rules to create exactly the character you envision.If you like rules heavy and complexity, HERO is a good choice. It's sourcebooks are awesome and packed full of useful material. The game also allows you to come up with exactly the character you envision. However, its tool kit approach and number crunching leaves a lot of players cold. Be prepared for long character gen and a lot of prep before running adventures. Combat is also extremely tactical and can take a long time. It is a good solid system, and you can easily use the same rules to play in virtually any setting or genre, from super to fantasy to modern and so on.If you want something you can easily bolt on top of d20 Modern, there is 4 Color to Fantasy and Blood and Vigilance. Don't know much about them, so I'll leave it at that.But in my opinion, the best choice is hands down Mutants and Masterminds 2nd Edition. Its simple, it basically d20 with some changes here and there. If you know d20, you'll pretty much already know how to play. It offers the versatility of HERO, but with much less complexity and prep time. Its extremely easy to create almost any comic character you can think of. And combat runs faster than any RPG I have ever played. A little too fast sometimes, but its nothing a house rule or two can't fix.</blockquote>

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