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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8124290" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>The superheroes genre is a great potential gold-mine or cash-cow in the TTRPG industry, but potential players without previous experience don't like complex rules too much, and the challenge for the game designers is the right power balance. Some players want to be a street vigilante and others the cosmic champion who destroys alien ships with his own fists. </p><p></p><p>I wonder about Marvel, DC and other comic publishers creating alternate timelines with different power scales, (lots of characters to be very nerfed, nothing of throwing cars as basket balls) to allow an easier adaptation not only into TTRPG but mainly videogames. Fandom has got too many ideas about their own variants of superheroes franchises. </p><p></p><p>I have said someone of the future WotC's projects will be a d20 superheroes, but this being totally compatible with D&D without a break of power balance is very hard. I guess they will try a Gamma World with mutants (DNA altered by the new vaccines against the last epidemic outbreak), high-tech and superpowers (these not only an updated list of psionic powers). </p><p></p><p>Is it not cypher system the used for the coming soon Master of the Universe RPG?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 8124290, member: 6802378"] The superheroes genre is a great potential gold-mine or cash-cow in the TTRPG industry, but potential players without previous experience don't like complex rules too much, and the challenge for the game designers is the right power balance. Some players want to be a street vigilante and others the cosmic champion who destroys alien ships with his own fists. I wonder about Marvel, DC and other comic publishers creating alternate timelines with different power scales, (lots of characters to be very nerfed, nothing of throwing cars as basket balls) to allow an easier adaptation not only into TTRPG but mainly videogames. Fandom has got too many ideas about their own variants of superheroes franchises. I have said someone of the future WotC's projects will be a d20 superheroes, but this being totally compatible with D&D without a break of power balance is very hard. I guess they will try a Gamma World with mutants (DNA altered by the new vaccines against the last epidemic outbreak), high-tech and superpowers (these not only an updated list of psionic powers). Is it not cypher system the used for the coming soon Master of the Universe RPG? [/QUOTE]
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