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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2374513" data-attributes="member: 151">Unless he's got Sorcery or the like, which is effectively a pool of powers, but Yeah.  M&M characters are tightly focused on very specific subsets of abilities....but the combat system also has very different applications and intents.  I'm not sure it's an apples-to-oranges comparison, because they're modelling very different things, by design.In M&M, everything is streamlined to keep the action flowing; it's much easier to sacrifice verisimilitude when you're a super-powered professional wrestler putting a suplex on a killer death-robot while yelling a batttle-cry of "I can hold my breath for a whole hour!!!"  In M&M, characters get hit with lamp-posts...and get back up again.  More than once.  Most of the powers are fairly simplistic in implementation, and the DM has a lot of lattitude, by necessity, to adjudicate their use.  They are so broad as to not be worth trying to codify...which is a good approach for superheroes.  That approach CAN work for D&D, but many folks (myself included) would find it unsatisfactory.  M&M's power levels put an effective cap on certain things that D&D doesn't.  Under M&M, there's no way for a team of PL15 heroes to defeat a PL20 villain, per se.  With pluck, they might be able to incapcitate or slow him down, but generally they're not scratching him.  In D&D, a clever 15th level character just might have a chance of defeating a 20th level attacker...potentially slim odds, but not a statisical certainty of failure.  In M&M, it's just plain not going to happen.And M&M, for all it's reduced complexity, still has to deal with the interaction of diverse power sets together and against each other.  Again, not a fault, but there is plenty of potential complexity there.  A quick glance at the M&M FAQ shows that it suffers from rules confusion, too, and from many of the same kinds of questions as high-level D&D.But let me be clear: If you haven't bought M&M, and you like superheroes...You owe it to yourself to pick it up.  It's my favorite superhero RPG, bar none.</blockquote>

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