Freedom City Campaign [M&M2] - OOC Discussion

[Graf]

It would seem that Full Power with STA would require you to fire into rank number of spaces, which sometimes is a problem, if there are not that many spaces you can attack without hitting your friends. In some cases, the extra bullets just spray the scenery, while in others, such a small room, unlike with selective,you have to attack your friends. This seems to be a more common and dangerous issue than most instances of full power.

It's and interesting argument. It doesn't make much sense from a story telling perspective. You can either pick your targets or you can't.
"I can only pick targets in some sort of complex way that could theoretically limit my options in certain specific instances...." is a bit bogus. I know this sort of thinking is common on AtomicThinkTank but I'm not really sure it has a place in a normal game.

 

[Insight]

If thats how you are going to do it, I'll ditch full power and one rank, and add incurable with the extra point.

However, I would argue that what the book says is that you cannot reduce the area because you cannot reduce ranks, and I recall that you cannot have the selective extra, although I haven't been able to find it in the book. Shapable Targeted Area is different from selective in that with selective, you can choose to not affect some in the area, thus pulling your punches on them, whereas STA involves making an attack roll and having the areas be rank number of adjacent squares. It would seem that Full Power with STA would require you to fire into rank number of spaces, which sometimes is a problem, if there are not that many spaces you can attack without hitting your friends. In some cases, the extra bullets just spray the scenery, while in others, such a small room, unlike with selective,you have to attack your friends. This seems to be a more common and dangerous issue than most instances of full power.

Full Power Only is an extremely bogus flaw in my experience. How often do you NOT use a power at full capability, certainly attack and defense powers? I've never seen anyone do it, and I've been running M&M for 4 years. Honestly, if you were going to ditch anything, I'd prefer you ditch full power.

 

[Insight]

Folks,

This game has been going on for a while now, and for a variety of reasons, I am growing dissatisfied with it. As you all know, I had some doubts that it was a terribly good idea to continue once half the group left. Although I had some good ideas for what to do with the game, I think it's best to move on.

M&M, because it's a point buy game, is kinda difficult to run online with people you don't know. Some people will have different ideas of what is good for the game, and what isn't. I feel like, as the GM, you can only do so much before you realize that you're just at an impasse. So, instead of causing any further trouble, I'll just conclude the plot where we have it and we can go on about our business.

This was an experimental game, and I think it served its purpose. I think I might like to GM another game at some point depending on the circumstances. Another issue I have is that I tend to get free time in spurts, and I think the players might have interpreted that as a lack of interest on my part, which I can assure you all was not the case.

Anyway, I hope you got whatever enjoyment you could out of the game, and I apologize for the abruptness of the ending, but I think that's best.

Good luck to you all.

 

[hero4hire]

For my part I apologize for my part in the non-responsiveness part that contributed to the non-enjoyment.

Know that I did enjoy your plot though. And I too learned a bit.

 

[Graf]

Insight.

I think you made the right call. This game was very difficult primarily I think, because of the different expectations of everyone.

I think you did a bang up job and I appreciate the frankness and politeness with which you ended the game.

It was my first opportunity to play MnM and I appreciate the effort you went through to help me and everyone else learn more about the system and try things out.

Although my own contributions were uneven I had a great deal of fun playing the game and it was often a source of great fun for me. So I appreciate that too!

Good luck to you all.

And you as well!

 

[Insight]

I'm not ruling out running another game, by the way. I kinda need to rethink what sort of a game I want to run first. Maybe M&M, maybe not.