NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ValhallaGH" data-source="post: 3905110" data-attributes="member: 41187">Having played in a couple of M&M games for about a year now, I can tell you that there are no dump stats.  However, unlike other systems, you don't need to buy up any stat to be effective, either.  Choose the stats appropriate to your character and have fun.With the eternal danger of Drain attacks, you'll want to have most or all of your stats above the campaign's power level.  Additionally, you never know when you'll find yourself in desperate need of successful skill or ability checks; having ability scores that aren't a liability is extremely useful in those situations.  Computing most derived values, including initiative modifiers and jumping distances, relies solely upon ability scores and the (few) relevant powers.  For doing cool things, like hurling cars at your enemies, or hitting them with buses, you'll generally be relying upon your strength for damage; so, when you start doing cool stuff, you'll be very glad you're not a cripple.  And believe me, GMs get just as bored with repetitive attackers as comic book audiences do.  Some of them will start to make those attacks less effective because of their boredom.Finally, it's not about points, it's about power level.  Any hypothetical superman build is probably PL 15 or higher, while sir chumps-a-lot is probably no higher than PL 10.  Given those facts, supes is going to hit him the vast majority of the time, and cream him with every successful attack.</blockquote>

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