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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9733114" data-attributes="member: 78087">Just because the comics do have characters who should be able to trivially outperform their colleagues at almost everything doesn’t mean that’s something you want to emulate in a game where hopefully everyone is supposed to be having fun and enjoying being able to work together with equal spotlight and usefulness. If the game allows great variations in character utility (not power level, that’s a different thing), that is a mechanical problem first and foremost.There are quite a few game systems where lethal attacks are explicitly more effective than non lethal attacks and it’s not hard to imagine a superhero game doing the same. A good example might be MSH, where being able to get a Kill result (as you can with guns and swords) with a Red is mechanically better than almost any other outcome in combat, especially if there’s discussion about whether getting a Kill result costs you Karma in and of itself (we generally ruled not, because you couldn’t help the result with an energy blast or similar, you only lost the Karma if the person actually died).</blockquote>