M&M 2nd - No ability mods to Attack/Defense?

[Thanee]

...so you don't have to have a really high Dexterity in order to avoid getting hit.

Just to make clear what I mean... I think it should be possible to get high Defense without getting high Dex (i.e. Defense should be raisable seperately), but I think high Dex should automatically give some (not necessarily super-high) Defense, since a high-Dex person simply is better at dodging than a low-Dex person.

But as Steve Kenson has written over at the ATT forums, there will be options for linking combat stats to ability scores in the upcoming Mastermind's Manual.

Bye
Thanee

 

[ThoughtBubble]

I agree. It weirded me out. In fact, it still does weird me out. And when I first started looking at the book, I was totally against it.

But now, I'm much more for it.

In my PL 7, teen titans like M&M game, everyone has high stats. It didn't seem like a big deal, until someone brought up how much he could lift. He has a 16 strength, which seems too high for a gangly 16 year old who hasn't really trained too much (similarly with his dex and con. He's going to be a Robin type eventually, so his stats show that off. However, to compete with the solar-radiation absorbing space alien in his specialty (melee) he needed extra damage.

With the de-coupling of stats and attack and such, it maks it easiwer on me to have characters with character-appropriate stats, no super stats, but still obtain output on the level of people with good stats and super stats.

It is, however, counter-intuitive.

 

[Thanee]

One approach would be to give only some of the ability bonus to the combat trait (i.e. Dex to Defense), like +1 Defense for every 4 points in Dex, in a way, that the combat trait would not automatically be maxed out with a high ability score.

But that would probably only work well with fractions (i.e. 1 point in Dex gives +0.25 Defense).

Bye
Thanee