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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 4457892" data-attributes="member: 3887">Are you familiar with Champions or Mutants and Masterminds (both are effects-based point-buy superhero RPGs)? They are fine examples of systems which focus on providing mechanical frameworks for character abilities, with mere suggestions on how to define (&quot;flavor&quot;) them in-game. For example, a ranged attack power could be a bolt of lightning from a hero's fingertips, a laser beam from his battlesuit, a fireball from his wand, a razor-edged boomerang, etc. They'd all be same mechanics-wise, outside of the modifiers you could choose to apply. The specific flavor would be up to the player to provide. I have a Mutants and Masterminds character that's the Egyptian God of Mexican Wrestling; he can paralyze enemies using the secrets of&nbsp; &quot;Ka-Wrestling&quot;, which tie of their seven souls into knots (a base power called Snare, which covers things like Spiderman's entangling webs or Iceman trapping someone in a block of ice), weaken their powers with a hold called the Khonsuplex (a base power called Drain), or use his super-secret &quot;Cheops Drop&quot; move that summons a pyramid out thin air and drops it on opponents (the area attack form of the Create Object power).I could never have created this character without the ability to overlay my own &quot;flavor&quot; onto the game mechanics, and I'm fairly certain that I''ll never find a game which included flavor like this to start with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 4457892, member: 3887"] Are you familiar with Champions or Mutants and Masterminds (both are effects-based point-buy superhero RPGs)? They are fine examples of systems which focus on providing mechanical frameworks for character abilities, with mere suggestions on how to define ("flavor") them in-game. For example, a ranged attack power could be a bolt of lightning from a hero's fingertips, a laser beam from his battlesuit, a fireball from his wand, a razor-edged boomerang, etc. They'd all be same mechanics-wise, outside of the modifiers you could choose to apply. The specific flavor would be up to the player to provide. I have a Mutants and Masterminds character that's the Egyptian God of Mexican Wrestling; he can paralyze enemies using the secrets of "Ka-Wrestling", which tie of their seven souls into knots (a base power called Snare, which covers things like Spiderman's entangling webs or Iceman trapping someone in a block of ice), weaken their powers with a hold called the Khonsuplex (a base power called Drain), or use his super-secret "Cheops Drop" move that summons a pyramid out thin air and drops it on opponents (the area attack form of the Create Object power). I could [i]never[/i] have created this character without the ability to overlay my own "flavor" onto the game mechanics, and I'm fairly certain that I''ll never find a game which included flavor like this to start with. [/QUOTE]

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