Post originally by Smokestack Jones at 2004-03-30 13:23:54
Converted from Phorums BB System

Hey Arcady,

True. And it would be folly for a system to try to play "catch up" with the genre (are you listening, editors of WOTC's FR game line?). I just feel that since in 4th Ed Champions on, the HERO folks took great pains to make it a "one-book" system. And with good reason, if you remember the rest of the older (around the time of 2nd-3rd Ed Chamipons) line, which seemed to have to add and reinterperet things constantly (you know, skills in Danger Int'l or Justice Inc. that would work differently than the same ones in Champions or Fantasy Hero-and don't EVEN get me started about FH's magic system). Thus the feeling among HERO folk about "only use what's in the core book." Hell, after 4th Ed, I used to scour subsequent releases, to make sure they were compliant with the BBB. Better that then have a tacked-on mess that HERO became previous to that.

Anyway, that's just to put the "HERO mindset" in perspective. If M&M can do it the other way better, I'm all for it.

-SJ