Questions about M&M?

[Caspian Moon Prince]

Thanos sans Infinity Gauntlet.

Thanks, that gives a pretty good picture. I was worried it wouldn't be able to deal with high level stuff, but it looks like it can. I believe M&M will have to go onto my to-buy list.

 

[d4]

Thanks, that gives a pretty good picture. I was worried it wouldn't be able to deal with high level stuff, but it looks like it can. I believe M&M will have to go onto my to-buy list.

you might want to hold off for another week or two.

toward the end of the month / beginning of July, a revised second printing which incorporates all of the errata to date will be hitting the shelves.

 

[takyris]

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh. I mean, I already have M&M, and I wouldn't buy it again just for the errata, but still, oooooooooh.

 

[d4]

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh. I mean, I already have M&M, and I wouldn't buy it again just for the errata, but still, oooooooooh.

really? i am.

i am Steve Kenson's whore.

be sure to pick up a copy of the M&M Annual while you're drooling over the new rulebook, too.

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

M&M is, in my opinion, the greatest supers game ever made.

It certainly does allow for the hero that crushes moons and tosses around Galactus snacks but you also could devise a campaign, rather easily that could revolve around the Bat-Family and their street level criminals.

Character creation CAN be a little tricky. The reason for this is that you have all these points available and when you begin putting the numbers in it is sometimes hard to keep track of how many points were spent in various areas. There is a great 'Simpson Character Sheet' floating around here that makes creating characters a snap!

 

[Emiricol]

The Simpsons Character Sheet is at http://www.elyzium.net/mnm/

After you have made one or two, making PCs becomes a breeze to do. 10-15 minutes usually. Particularly with the character sheet generator thing (which incidentally prints very nicely, being formatted for printing already).

 

[Gadodel]

To answer your questions:
1. Maybe. You may have to customize some of the powers.
2. It is fairly fast.

 

[Alzrius]

Just to be totally clear, this updated core rulebook won't change anything right? I'm still a little nervous thanks to the 3E -> 3.5E switch, and it'd be nice to get this and then be able to use some existing third-party materials.

 

[King of Old School]

Just to be totally clear, this updated core rulebook won't change anything right? I'm still a little nervous thanks to the 3E -> 3.5E switch, and it'd be nice to get this and then be able to use some existing third-party materials.

It incorporates errata, and that's it. Errata in this case includes both corrections of errors (e.g. incorrect terminology, point values, numbers or formulae) and limited rewrites of certain powers that were unclear, ambiguous or broken. Nothing about the game is changed per se, certainly not on the scale of 3.5, and you will be able to achieve the same effect by downloading the free errata PDF from the GR website (the latest version used in the reprint is not yet up on the site IIRC but will be soon). The revised second printing also supposedly includes a detailed example of character creation, something that many people had wanted; this is an addition rather than a change, and I'd be shocked if it weren't made available as a free PDF on the GR website as well.

KoOS

 

[Kenson]

KoOS saved me the trouble of answering this one. He got it exactly right.