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Originally Posted by ghosthost
Interesting review.
The powers thing... I'm not sure what you're getting at as far as "no rhyme or reason" to how they're made. The how's and why's are listed in the power creation portion. I just know they do actually play well. I've had no problems thus far with the Freedom City characters that we converted from M&M.
The sonic boom thing. That was brought up on their forums once. They said it was meant to mimic things in DoL, but not all comics. A simple +0 modifier would get rid of the boom. Actually, that's something they've said a lot at the forums- the powers had the setting in mind, but can easily replicate anything in comics with little details like the sonic boom being covered with modifiers.
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My example with Special Boy and Better Boy would have cleared up a lot of my reasoning for why I felt the powers system is garbage, unfortunately, the review killed all the formatting for some awful reason, making it an unintelligible mess *grumble*.
Special Boy------------------------vs.----------------Better Boy
Power:-------------------------------------------------Powers:
15 points on Color Manipulation 6---------------15 points on Daze 6
30 on Camouflage 6--------------------------------30 points on Invisibility 6
30 on Digestive Adaptation 6---------------------30 points on Disintegrate 6
12 X-Ray Vision, full--------------------------------12 points for ESP 4
10 Mental Resistance +4--------------------------10 Super Smarts 2
10 Spiritual Fortitude +4---------------------------10 Super Spirit 2
2 Self Destruct---------------------------------------2 Self Destruct
1 points left over------------------------------------1 point left over
The two characters here have similar powers where possible and identical costs. Only one of them is better at everything. Thats not balance, no matter how you look at it. Likely, your game has gone well as you took balanced characters from a balanced game and ported them over.
Sonic booms are flavor, and forums may give suggestions, but I'm not reviewing the forums- I'm reviewing a book. If sonic booms are setting flavor, there should be an option to include or remove them in the book, IF this is meant to be a universal superhero system.