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<blockquote data-quote="Donovan Morningfire" data-source="post: 2780172" data-attributes="member: 39532">I'll confess to being very leery at first about a new edition of Mutants &amp; Masterminds, especially given some of the previews on fan site.&nbsp; But now having the book, I'll now confess to being a fan of the revisions.&nbsp; The biggest change I was worried about was divorcing Strength and Dexterity from their respective combat scores, but I can understand the logic as it puts those two ability scores on a more even footing with the other four, and allows for the super-tough guy that has no clue how to land a punch.While having power creation rules would have been a nice addition, I'm not missing as every concept I've been able to think of so far I've been able to stat up, including the DCAU versions of the Justice League, and able to do so without anyone's Power Level getting to ridiculous heights (namely Superman and Batman), and without too much &quot;fudging&quot; in terms of powers (sole exception being Supes having Improved Initiative as an extra of Quickness; net saving in terms of points equaling zip).As for the repeated &quot;Blast&quot; theme powers, I see those more as being there to give new players ideas to set up power themes via Alternate Powers, so I can forgive them that trespass.I guess maybe the highest mark of praise for M&amp;M2e is that a friend of mine, who is a dyed-in-the-wool Champions/Hero System advocate since the days of 1st edition, and loudly criticized every other superhero RPG out on the market (including M&amp;M1e), borrowed my copy of 2nd edition, read through it, and went out to buy his own copy, and is now planning a M&amp;M campaign, and is working on converting a lot of the background NPCs and villains from his old Hero System campaigns to M&amp;M2e for use in the new campaign.&nbsp; I guess if Mikey likes it, Green Ronin did something right.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Donovan Morningfire, post: 2780172, member: 39532"] I'll confess to being very leery at first about a new edition of Mutants & Masterminds, especially given some of the previews on fan site. But now having the book, I'll now confess to being a fan of the revisions. The biggest change I was worried about was divorcing Strength and Dexterity from their respective combat scores, but I can understand the logic as it puts those two ability scores on a more even footing with the other four, and allows for the super-tough guy that has no clue how to land a punch. While having power creation rules would have been a nice addition, I'm not missing as every concept I've been able to think of so far I've been able to stat up, including the DCAU versions of the Justice League, and able to do so without anyone's Power Level getting to ridiculous heights (namely Superman and Batman), and without too much "fudging" in terms of powers (sole exception being Supes having Improved Initiative as an extra of Quickness; net saving in terms of points equaling zip). As for the repeated "Blast" theme powers, I see those more as being there to give new players ideas to set up power themes via Alternate Powers, so I can forgive them that trespass. I guess maybe the highest mark of praise for M&M2e is that a friend of mine, who is a dyed-in-the-wool Champions/Hero System advocate since the days of 1st edition, and loudly criticized every other superhero RPG out on the market (including M&M1e), borrowed my copy of 2nd edition, read through it, and went out to buy his own copy, and is now planning a M&M campaign, and is working on converting a lot of the background NPCs and villains from his old Hero System campaigns to M&M2e for use in the new campaign. I guess if Mikey likes it, Green Ronin did something right. [/QUOTE]

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