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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5091766" data-attributes="member: 15538">As the saying goes: You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. The only factually incorrect thing I have stated was when I typed 10 instead of 15. In defending myself against charges of misinformation or distortion, I have resorted to quoting the rulebook at length. If quoting the rules is &quot;factually incorrect,&quot; then I guess I'm factually incorrect.Who knows what the conversation would have been like? But since several people decided to prove the unprovable, and behave in an aggressive and insulting fashion, the discussion pretty much got dug into the dirt. Maybe defending myself against untrue accusations was not the most productive response, but I didn't feel ready to just stand back and watch people claim things that actually aren't true (i.e. that's a sidebar, that's an optional rule, that's not how most people play the game, power points are not based on PL, and so forth). Most likely, anyone else who felt like injecting some balance into this discussion saw the treatment they could expect and just bowed out. The majority of people following this this roiling discussion is probably not the same as the majority of people who had interest in the original subject.Maybe my interpretation is senseless... but I did not resort to distorting the rulebook text, at least. To segue back to the OP, Power Level does allow games to be easily scaled up or down, whereas Hero System requires a more comprehensive approach to balance, although the suggestions in the core books are good and easy enough to implement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 5091766, member: 15538"] As the saying goes: You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. The only factually incorrect thing I have stated was when I typed 10 instead of 15. In defending myself against charges of misinformation or distortion, I have resorted to quoting the rulebook at length. If quoting the rules is "factually incorrect," then I guess I'm factually incorrect. Who knows what the conversation would have been like? But since several people decided to prove the unprovable, and behave in an aggressive and insulting fashion, the discussion pretty much got dug into the dirt. Maybe defending myself against untrue accusations was not the most productive response, but I didn't feel ready to just stand back and watch people claim things that actually aren't true (i.e. that's a sidebar, that's an optional rule, that's not how most people play the game, power points are not based on PL, and so forth). Most likely, anyone else who felt like injecting some balance into this discussion saw the treatment they could expect and just bowed out. The majority of people following this this roiling discussion is probably not the same as the majority of people who had interest in the original subject. Maybe my interpretation is senseless... but I did not resort to distorting the rulebook text, at least. To segue back to the OP, Power Level does allow games to be easily scaled up or down, whereas Hero System requires a more comprehensive approach to balance, although the suggestions in the core books are good and easy enough to implement. [/QUOTE]

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