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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6035729" data-attributes="member: 22424">Indeed. None of which I have a problem with (as I said a couple of posts above).However, if the rules claimed Superman was a 400-point character, but it turned out that he'd bought all of his powers at half price, then I would have an issue.In d20 systems, character level is the key measure of power. A character of "level X" will have this much assumed power, given by this number of feats and that number of talents. Heck, many of the games even assume a specific amount of equipment! I therefore find it objectionable when something is presented as "level X", but significantly violates those assumptions - if you want more power in your 'iconic' characters, give them a higher level!(It's especially infuriating because it's just so unnecessary. It is entirely possible to build a 1st level character who looks like Luke as he leaves the farm without exceeding that 25-point norm.)Probably the thing that vexes me most about those characters is that the stats are almost completely useless - most groups will simply never use them - but there actually came a time when I did find use for them. Back in February, I ran a mirror universe one-shot in which half the characters were prequel-era iconics, and half were custom characters. Only it turned out that I couldn't use the iconics as-is, I had to rebuild them to balance with the custom characters. To finally have a use for them, and then to be unable to use them after all... that was more than a little annoying! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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