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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angrydad" data-source="post: 4459792" data-attributes="member: 70987">As DM in my own games for the last 15 years or so I like to allow lots of variety for my players to choose from, but I know when to say no (psions, anyone?). I agree that the DM is the one who should set limits, but even when doing that still allows for some crazy powerful PCs to pull off ridiculous stunts or attacks, there's something wrong with the system balance itself. We also discovered that it was very easy to make characters in SAS who could dish out about 100 hp of damage a round, even with a fair amount of restrictions on the powers they could take and how many ranks of those powers. While dishing out tons of damage sounds superheroic and all, the characters themselves only start with a d10, d12, d8, or d6 Hit Die. This means that they stand no chance of surviving an encounter with even a low powered super being who has focused his abilities on offense. If the DM has to spend too much of his time telling the players no and determining how the characters' powers actually work, it robs the game of fun and pacing. That's the system's fault. If the system was really a decent toolbox, the DM would rarely have to stop play to decide if Joe can really use his power to run up the side of a building while shooting energy beams at the enemy and blah blah blah. All the DM should have to do is create and tell the story for the players, with a little bit of rules determining and judging on the side.</blockquote>

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