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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3492268" data-attributes="member: 710">Well, the Heroes setting is very specific about the kind of characters it contains.Here is a possible &quot;replication&quot; of it:Treat each superpower as a magical item that you usually can't lose. Instead of handing out magical items as treasure, each time a characters level advances, just improve his power to fit his expected wealth by level.Sylar has the ability to steal this special treasure if its posessor is dead, but his own power doesn't advance by level. Peter is similar, except that the original person keeps its power and doesn't need to die either.Sylar is still not entirely balanced, as he obviously doesn't need to share his treasure with 3 other PCs, so you might want to give him lower level versions of the powers. (This would also indicate that Sylars stolen power don't improve over time - he only gets it at the mastery the creature he stole from controls it...)This will probably fail for a lot of the powers described with Heroes - I doubt that Claire's healing ability will change a lot if she gets better control, but Hiros abilities will certainly evolve a lot in time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 3492268, member: 710"] Well, the Heroes setting is very specific about the kind of characters it contains. Here is a possible "replication" of it: Treat each superpower as a magical item that you usually can't lose. Instead of handing out magical items as treasure, each time a characters level advances, just improve his power to fit his expected wealth by level. Sylar has the ability to steal this special treasure if its posessor is dead, but his own power doesn't advance by level. Peter is similar, except that the original person keeps its power and doesn't need to die either. Sylar is still not entirely balanced, as he obviously doesn't need to share his treasure with 3 other PCs, so you might want to give him lower level versions of the powers. (This would also indicate that Sylars stolen power don't improve over time - he only gets it at the mastery the creature he stole from controls it...) This will probably fail for a lot of the powers described with Heroes - I doubt that Claire's healing ability will change a lot if she gets better control, but Hiros abilities will certainly evolve a lot in time. [/QUOTE]

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