Silver Age Sentinels (Tri-Stat) -- and Streamlining Hero

[mmadsen]

There's a major difference there though. The 50 points spent on Strength boosted the brick's defenses (PD, ED, and STN) as well as granting extra movement by increasing your leaping distance. He's getting more bang for his buck. Super-strength is its own little power framework.

You've made the point that Str is a bargain, and I don't disagree. (It doesn't boost ED, by the way.) It sounds easier to boost Str's cost or accept its prevalence -- it is in genre, after all -- rather than find ways to reduce the cost of everything else, if that's the issue.