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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bretbo" data-source="post: 2096968" data-attributes="member: 18497">EDIT: dang you, HeapThaumaturgist for jumping before me!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Forgive my ignorance...True20?Hey Dragonblade, don't mean to sound like I'm jumping on you, but I had some thoughts on your dislikes:Remember, the bad guys (or the opponents of the players if they are the bad guys) have hero points also (called villain points).  And there is a system that weighs the advantage to the player on this, but villains can re-roll damage saves by spending a villain point.There was a sort-of conversion notes for doing D&D Monsters in M&M that Steve Kenson posted.  Neo expanded on these conversion (quite well, in fact) and can be found in a M&M Fanzine called Super Samurai (check E-CORE or d20 Magazine Rack) or on the M&M Forum (if it hasn't been purged).  Spells would simply be powers with extras, power stunts and flaws.  There is a Superlink Product called Monsters and Mayhem that handled Fantasy M&M; haven't seen it so can't say if its good or not.Well, the extras and power stunts are framwork-like if constructed properly.  A character like Ultra Boy (who uses one power at a time) would have a base power (probably Super-Strength) with everything else as a power stunt.  And there is a Multi-Power Framework (been a while since I read Hero, that is the other framework besides Elemental Control, right?)Using Variable Effect without spending a Hero Point sounds way to powerful.  Maybe something like the character can use it once per 5 PLs they've gain (2 at PL10) for free then they have to use hero points might work.  Don't know.  And remember, if you use extra effort (which burns a hero point) you can use any power that makes since with your character concept.  Example: The Human Torch spends a point to create a fire-cage to trap a villain (effect: Snare).The way powers are constructed, the cost is resonable.  The effect, though, can be a pain to deal with.  I mean, for 2 points a character can have Penetrating Vision that can give a GM tons of headaches in a mystery-based game.  Every super-powered game has to deal with this kind of thing, good GMing is how to manage it.See comment above.</blockquote>

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