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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Laslo Tremaine" data-source="post: 2904211" data-attributes="member: 330">I played a 1 long running campaign in 1e that covered a number of genres and Power Levels:• Pulp (PL 5-6)• Mystery Men (PL 7-8)• WWII Golden Age (PL 8-9)• Silver Age (a la Justice League) (PL 10-11)1st edition worked just fine for all of those settings and Power Levels, and  I was especially pleased at how well it worked at the lower end of the scale.Right now I am playing in a PL 8 Iron Age game (based on the Villians & Vigilantes universe) and we have converted to 2e.  Unfortunately the conversion has not been very smooth for us.  In many ways it's the same problem as the conversion from D&D 3e to 3.5.  Many little things have been changed about the system.  It's basically the same, so you think you know how it works, but when you go to check a rule, you find that it's been changed in a subtle way.What do I like about 2e?• For the most part, they got rid of super stats, now you just buy your base stat up to whatever level you want.• Making  4 skill points per power point official.• Divorcing Attack and Defense levels from stats (Dex does not make you harder to hit).• PL trade-offs.• Flat caps on PL (you can no longer max out your power, stats and feats to go above the campaing PL limit).• Fixing powers like Invisibilty and Insubstantial.What I don't like about 2e!• Damage is needlessly complex now.  I much prefer the 1e way of handling it.• I think I prefer the 1e way of buying powers, although I don't hate the 2e way.• Feats are too cheap!  I don't know why they didn't keep them at 2pts per Feat.• The way Regeneration works is just odd, too expensive, and generally squirrelly.• A number of character concepts were more straight forward in 1e, in 2e you need to jump through a few more hoops.Our group is very tempted to sit down and make a 1.5 edition.  We just need to find the time to do it.</blockquote>

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