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<blockquote data-quote="Libertad" data-source="post: 8244348" data-attributes="member: 6750502">Don't know enough about Hasbro's business deals to comment on that, but I don't think that complete combability nor nerfing iconic characters should be an ideal for D20 Superheroes given that endurance-based dungeon crawls which 5e is strongly based off of are completely different in both narration and gameplay. And barring extreme examples like Superman I'd prefer superhero RPGs to make you &quot;feel like&quot; the characters you're playing as rather than watered-down versions. Sure it'll sell well cuz it has the WotC brand, but it's not going to be a great marvel of game design. The whole &quot;put D20 in everything&quot; during the days of 3rd Edition got us a lot of products that haven't fit in well with their emulated genres, and while it's endemic to any popular OGL system I'd like to think that the better RPG writers can move past that.Apologies if I'm coming off as critical, but given what I'm currently reviewing I hope it makes sense why I have this mindset.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Libertad, post: 8244348, member: 6750502"] Don't know enough about Hasbro's business deals to comment on that, but I don't think that complete combability nor nerfing iconic characters should be an ideal for D20 Superheroes given that endurance-based dungeon crawls which 5e is strongly based off of are completely different in both narration and gameplay. And barring extreme examples like Superman I'd prefer superhero RPGs to make you "feel like" the characters you're playing as rather than watered-down versions. Sure it'll sell well cuz it has the WotC brand, but it's not going to be a great marvel of game design. The whole "put D20 in everything" during the days of 3rd Edition got us a lot of products that haven't fit in well with their emulated genres, and while it's endemic to any popular OGL system I'd like to think that the better RPG writers can move past that. Apologies if I'm coming off as critical, but given what I'm currently reviewing I hope it makes sense why I have this mindset. [/QUOTE]

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