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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 3579490" data-attributes="member: 177">Okay, hold up here.  We are getting deep into Miscommunication Land.The words you used, specifically were, "Part of the beauty of M&M's damage system is that lesser threats are still valid against a foe...".Now, maybe "threat" has a very specific meaning in M&M of which I'm unaware.  To me, the threat is not the gun, but he whole package - the threat is the villain or foe overall.  So, a mook with a gun is a lesser threat, but Bullseye with that very same weapon is not "lesser" by any stretch of my imagination.  Also, I now understand that "impervious" has a very specific meaning within M&M.  I was unaware of that when I spoke, and I didn't mean it in the game's specific sense.  I meant it in the generic sense of "overall, however I manage to do it, I'm not taking damage in this encounter".Let me phrase it in the common tongue of D&D - I'm not familiar with the system, and I'm trying to figure out at what point the lower PL foes are a reasonably challenging encounter for the higher PL hero. If a normal guy on the street with a pistol is still an issue for what the system would make for Captain America, that's a very different game from having to use a dozen or more trained soldiers to challenge Cap.  Now, however, I also see the game has a mechanical differentiation for "mooks" - the term I have seen used is "minions", and that, at least in genre terms, I can understand is part of the difference.I ask because I've played several supers games - and there's a range.  In the old "faserip" Marvel Superheroes, or other games designed to emulate most comic book heroes, there's a wide range of power, and Captain America can take on a dozen soldiers without much issue at all.  At the other end, there's Godlike - where a common soldier with a rifle may still be rather deadly to the more powerful heroes the system will produce.</blockquote>

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