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Originally Posted by Gamskee
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
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At which point I stopped reading, lost interest and decided to post...
Honestly I cant follow this reasoning... I could call it garbage, but somewhere down the path someone told me that just because I don't agree with something I don't have to insult it.
Color manipulation and daze have no point of comparison, with daze you stun opponents (and even incapacitate them) granted its more useful in combat, but with color manipulation I could make someone go crazy (just keep changing the color every now and again), I could rob the Mona Lisa and make look like I drew it in Crayola, I can change my clothes and avoid pursuit... yeah it sounds silly, but the power is actually pretty useful.
Invisibility seems like the best choice... buuuut camouflage has no power rating limit, which means it can go beyond the rank limit, in other words at novice rank I could have a wooping d12+7 to remain unnoticed, so yeah, invisitibility automatically works, but in a situation were a hyper-sense might detect a camouflaged hero and an invisible hero the camouflaged one has the advantage.
Digestive adaptation is conspicuous and leaves no trace, disintegration leaves traces behind.
With ESP while you are projecting you are unaware of your body, with X-ray vision you still have awareness of whats happening around you, aaaand, you can see through multiple walls at the same time, while with ESP youŽd have to go one by one.
As for the added defenses... yeah I agree, the should be 4 points instead of 5... but as you already stated with so many PP to work with... meh...
I dont like the randomness of huge dice polls, but the exploding dice are like a quirk of the SW games... thats why bennies exist, and you can spend as much as you want rerolling soak
So a 1/1 seems a little extreme, specially when your pet peeve isn't even well explained... of course some powers are better than others in combat... DUH!, I'm not saying the game is perfect, but when people log in RPG.net and read your review they are going to walk away with a bad opinion due to misinformed examples.