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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jonrog1" data-source="post: 2547019" data-attributes="member: 189">Hey all, back from a loooong hiatus.Been slaving away between assignments on coming up with a modern/universal D20 system based on what was the best IMHO D20 product of last year -- Green Ronin's TrueD20.  Really, just fantastic piece of work, stripped out many of the old cluttering rules ...  I cannot compliment you enough on that product.  And the fact you can actually read the damn thing, especially when stacked up against some recent products (and WOTC's imfamously obtuse text) -- again, a must-buy.Enough fanboyism.  What was bumping me was figuring an effective FX system.  Now it looks like M&M 2E is damn close to a universal RPG with integrated powers.  What I'm wondering is -- can one modulate the "powers" level of a campaign world by, instead of capping PL, instead cap allowable levels for non-equipment powers alone?  That is, let characters level up to powerful super-spy types with their feats and skills, but the "FX level" of the campaign world stays at a slightly higher than real world, oh, say PL5-7?Or would a more effective path be to consider: if you eliminated powers altogether, would one then reduce the number of points per PL?  I'd love to find (and will try to develop) a way to use the great point-buy system of M&M but without supers/low supers threshold.I realize this is all speculative, and may be covered in the book itself or the promised alt-rules expansion.  But on the odd chance nobody had put any thought into this -- any guesstimates?Again, thanks for the great work, looking forward to the book.  And any rumors that I'll trade bootleg DVD's of Global Frequency or the first 30 pages of the Transformers movie script for an advanced copy are just wrong.</blockquote>

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