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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6143716" data-attributes="member: 42582">I'm not sure what &quot;X&quot; is, here. In your post (25 upthread) you talked about the GM ignoring the rules; is that what X means here? Because if I'm playing MHRP and the GM ignores the rules, that's probably not fine for me.Without a bit more detail it's hard to answer definitively, but my first instinct is &quot;yes, I do have a problem.&quot; It's a bit like hit points and healing in 4e - if, for instance, you follow the D&amp;Dnext approach and treat all damage above bloodied as morale only, you can't explain how an unbloodied PC takes (for instance) poison damage. The system depends upon flexibility in narration, and adapting narratin to fit the particular context of fiction + mechanics. I think MHRP is the same in this respect. Trying to introduce consistency is likely to cause problems in both mechanical resolution (players won't have the resources the game expects them to have) and fiction (the fiction will break down at certain points, because it will turn out that Hero X can't do some thing which in the comics s/he could do).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6143716, member: 42582"] I'm not sure what "X" is, here. In your post (25 upthread) you talked about the GM ignoring the rules; is that what X means here? Because if I'm playing MHRP and the GM ignores the rules, that's probably not fine for me. Without a bit more detail it's hard to answer definitively, but my first instinct is "yes, I do have a problem." It's a bit like hit points and healing in 4e - if, for instance, you follow the D&Dnext approach and treat all damage above bloodied as morale only, you can't explain how an unbloodied PC takes (for instance) poison damage. The system depends upon flexibility in narration, and adapting narratin to fit the particular context of fiction + mechanics. I think MHRP is the same in this respect. Trying to introduce consistency is likely to cause problems in both mechanical resolution (players won't have the resources the game expects them to have) and fiction (the fiction will break down at certain points, because it will turn out that Hero X can't do some thing which in the comics s/he could do). [/QUOTE]

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