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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ValhallaGH" data-source="post: 4852749" data-attributes="member: 41187">I realized it was a bit inflammatory, and I'm not looking to start anything, but since I chose to state my opinion (it was the soul-selling comment that finally made me break silence) I wanted to state it as clearly and completely as I could.  Which required that wording, and my desire not to start things required a caveat.Now the real reason I chose to respond to your post.By itself, no, it's not nearly enough of an issue to wish it out of existence.  The problem comes with the wealth of products that (unnecessarily) use Ultimate Power notations and listings, making some of their best characters almost useless without that book, when they could use the core book alone to create the exact same powers.Example: Melt is a surprisingly common alternate power (for fire characters) in recent products.  When all you see is "Melt", and you don't have UP, that's both confusing and useless.  When you see "Alternate Powers: Melt (Corrosion; Extra: Ranged; Flaw: Limited to Objects only)" you can read that and use it using only the core book.  It takes a little bit more time and effort to type and print but the shift in usability to the customer is phenomenal.It's that not-so-subtle pressure to "go forth and buy Ultimate Power if you want to get full utility from the book you just bought" that really gets to me.  The fact that UP is out of print (and more than the core book when you can find it) just adds that last little touch of perfectly deplorable.  I'd rather that Ultimate Power had never been published in the first place.</blockquote>

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