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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7748889" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Not everyone in the world (of 4e) does have 4e class features. Only characters with classes have them, which in the world of 4e is a rare and exceptional thing.Anyway, we’ve long since passed the point where this metaphor has broken down. The point was meant to be that, much like “when everyone is super, no one will be,” when every character has cool, interesting things to do, no one does. Which is just silly. . All of the main characters of the film are super, and that doesn’t cheapen their superpowers, even if we ignore the non-superpowered characters, because all of their powers are different. Likewise, the fact that all PCs in 5e have interesting things to do, doesn’t cheapen the interesting things other characters have to do, because they do different interesting things.Also, Syndrome’s quote, while a punchy soundbite, is demonstrably wrong. Just as Mr. Incredible being strong doesn’t make invisible girl’s invisibility less cool, everyone being super wouldn’t make superpowers not super. For a good example of a setting that examines the implications of a world where everyone (or almost everyone) has some kind of superpower, look at My Hero Academia. Even if you take the superness of super powers as a zero sum game, some powers are just inherently better than others.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7748889, member: 6779196"] Not everyone in the world (of 4e) does have 4e class features. Only characters with classes have them, which in the world of 4e is a rare and exceptional thing. Anyway, we’ve long since passed the point where this metaphor has broken down. The point was meant to be that, much like “when everyone is super, no one will be,” when every character has cool, interesting things to do, no one does. Which is just silly. . All of the main characters of the film are super, and that doesn’t cheapen their superpowers, even if we ignore the non-superpowered characters, because all of their powers are different. Likewise, the fact that all PCs in 5e have interesting things to do, doesn’t cheapen the interesting things other characters have to do, because they do different interesting things. Also, Syndrome’s quote, while a punchy soundbite, is demonstrably wrong. Just as Mr. Incredible being strong doesn’t make invisible girl’s invisibility less cool, everyone being super wouldn’t make superpowers not super. For a good example of a setting that examines the implications of a world where everyone (or almost everyone) has some kind of superpower, look at My Hero Academia. Even if you take the superness of super powers as a zero sum game, some powers are just inherently better than others. [/QUOTE]

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