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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5068034" data-attributes="member: 19675">QFT.In the interests of full disclosure, I've been a Champions/HERO player since it came out (the 3rd system I learned, after D&D and Traveller), and it remains my favorite system, bar none.  I just bought 6Ed Sunday, but haven't had a chance to take a close look at it.  (Sorry to see the ECs are gone, though.)I've run both HERO and M&M, and I have to say that it is a simpler game and  MUCH easier for the D20 set to learn...but also easy for them to pick apart.<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-rules-discussion/255927-starting-new-m-m-campaign.html" target="_blank">My most recent M&M campaign </a> fell apart in part due to the fact that M&M doesn't have a straightforward and intuitive way of having a speedster do an Autofire punch or series of move-by attacks over a wide area- classic speedster schtick.There are ways to do it, yes, but they all look like extreme workarounds for the fact that M&M eschews iterative attacks in general.  The suggestions floated here and at Atomic Think tank were not only dissatisfying to me as a GM who had run HERO, but also to the player designing the speedster.HERO, though.. the Autofire modifier looks exactly like what you'd expect- "Iterative attacks, Mr. Rico!  Zillions of them!"As if that weren't bad enough, 1 other player in the group managed to find other aspects of the game's mechanics that were not handled as well as in HERO: what, exactly, does it mean when you hit a character with an attack that reduces their mental stats radically and rapidly?  (And that's not hard or expensive to do in M&M.)Don't get me wrong, though...M&M is my 3rd favorite system of all time, behind only HERO (#1) and 3.XEd D&D (#2).  If/when it hits its 3rd edition, you can be sure I'll be getting my copy.</blockquote>

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