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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 2866783" data-attributes="member: 9213">I love HERO system. I have a decent amount of 4th ed and 5th ed resources for it and If I could find more players I'd be playing it instead of M&M. But instead everybody wants to play M&M so I really dont have much of a choice. If I want ot play superheroes, I've got to play M&M. It sucks (not the game, the situation) , because gamers have a tendency to crap all over games that they dont like or may be a "threat" to "their favorite game". I like M&M, for me it's a damn good gateway game, good for newbies to learn from, but I like the granular crunchiness of HERO. Character creation requires basic math skills. Multiplication, Division, addition and subtraction. That's it. If you made it out of 4th grade you can create a HERO character. I SUCKED at math and I was still able to grasp and create characters fairly easily. SO I dont get the snipes at the math in HERO, I really dont. These people apparently have not had to calculate travel distances and hyperspace jumps in Traveller then talk to me about math. And yeah that familiarity / similarity to D20 was a BIG factor to M&M's popularity. The tweaks make it great for Supers, but the core that was used plays into it as well.</blockquote>