[Kinetic]

Originally Posted by tanaka84

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.

Except that the point cost for these powers is the same I would agree that they don't have a point of comparison. The point that the reviewer was trying to make is that these two powers cost the same, but it seems that Daze is VASTLY more useful while we kind of have to half-ass something together to get Color Manipulation to be worthwhile in the same power level. Because they cost the same I'm counting them on the same power level.

Originally Posted by tanaka84

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.

Again, cost versus reward.

Originally Posted by tanaka84

Digestive adaptation is conspicuous and leaves no trace, disintegration leaves traces behind.

It has been pointed out that Disintegration doesn't leave traces, works on more targets than Digestive Adaptation, and can be used at range. Yet both of these powers cost the same.

Originally Posted by tanaka84

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 you´d have to go one by one.

This one I'm a little on the fence on and I'm kind of leaning toward your defense of X-Ray Vision. These are both situational powers and I don't really have an issue with them.

Originally Posted by tanaka84

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.

I agree that a 1/1 is too harsh for Dawn of Legends, but I would love to see more balance put into the book. The comment that you made about some powers being better than others in combat... Well, the examples given are mostly about cost versus effect. That's my biggest gripe as well. DoL seems to be a min-maxer's favorite at this point in time, but I wouldn't completely write it off just yet. I haven't played it, just read through it, but can't see myself running this system by the book. Maybe with some more reading and tweaking I'd be ready to give it a go, but not until then.