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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8424207" data-attributes="member: 86653"><p>Right. The guidelines presented are basically “do what you think looks right” instead of “here are specific mechanics for creating balanced characters from a pool of points” as you see in many/most other games. It’s the “do whatever, man” approach to character creation. And this lead to endless arguments when it was new about whether this setup of character creation even counted as a system.</p><p></p><p>But, it still works because the game you play isn’t about who has a slightly better power set. Everyone can have an impact on the story because of how the mechanics work. Thor will have one extra die in his pools sometimes and maybe a higher die type when focused on strength-based tasks, but that character creation setup still works because the game is looser and not focused on balance. It’s focused on emulating the ebb and flow of superhero stories...not mechanical superiority. So the lack of strict character creation rules literally doesn’t matter to the game as played. </p><p></p><p>And that’s something people slowly learned over time as they played the game. The people who wanted strict character creation rules simply could not understand how it could possibly work because they were hung up on the character creation instead of just playing the game. But, because they couldn’t see past the lack of strict character creation rules, they missed out on a wonderful game. </p><p></p><p>A lot of things people in this thread are hung up on simply don’t matter in FKR games. You’re hung up on the lack on strict character creation rules and, as a result, you’re missing the game. It’ll be okay. It’ll work out. Just play the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 8424207, member: 86653"] Right. The guidelines presented are basically “do what you think looks right” instead of “here are specific mechanics for creating balanced characters from a pool of points” as you see in many/most other games. It’s the “do whatever, man” approach to character creation. And this lead to endless arguments when it was new about whether this setup of character creation even counted as a system. But, it still works because the game you play isn’t about who has a slightly better power set. Everyone can have an impact on the story because of how the mechanics work. Thor will have one extra die in his pools sometimes and maybe a higher die type when focused on strength-based tasks, but that character creation setup still works because the game is looser and not focused on balance. It’s focused on emulating the ebb and flow of superhero stories...not mechanical superiority. So the lack of strict character creation rules literally doesn’t matter to the game as played. And that’s something people slowly learned over time as they played the game. The people who wanted strict character creation rules simply could not understand how it could possibly work because they were hung up on the character creation instead of just playing the game. But, because they couldn’t see past the lack of strict character creation rules, they missed out on a wonderful game. A lot of things people in this thread are hung up on simply don’t matter in FKR games. You’re hung up on the lack on strict character creation rules and, as a result, you’re missing the game. It’ll be okay. It’ll work out. Just play the game. [/QUOTE]
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