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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4561239" data-attributes="member: 19675">I'm a HERO player from back when it was a slim book called Champions, and I enjoy M&M as a mutant love child of HERO and 3.X lite.I won't repeat what's been said before- it's pretty accurate.What I will say is that, like any system you'd care to name, an experienced player can squeeze a lot more out of his resources than a noob...and in HERO, this could mean disaster if the GM isn't up to speed in paying attention to each PC's disadvantages.If they aren't, disads can be overvalued and/or under-enforced, resulting in seemingly enormous power discrepancies.RE: Speed- not every GM has upper limits on particular stats, many only enforce point limits per PC and perhaps an upper limit on the effective overall power level of a power or ability.  IOW, they may limit a power to an upper limit equivalent to a 10d6 attack- baseline 60 points without power advantages and limitations...but they might allow a PC to put all of their points in one slot as long as the math all works.  Speed could be treated in the same way- you might have a Speed 4 PC and a Speed 12 PC in the same party...but the Speed 12 PC might be a 1 trick pony while the Speed 4 PC might more closely resemble Batman.</blockquote>