Post originally by lizard at 2004-03-30 16:12:03
Converted from Phorums BB System

There was a common trend among Hero fans to believe that you had to do EVERYTHING with the powers in the BBB; that nothing else could be added or changed, no matter how much simpler it would be. (This has been dropped with FRED, as there are new power adders, advantages, and so on in most of the supplements.) My canonical example is a humongous flame war on the Hero list a few years back over how to make a sword whose wounds could not be magically healed. My (and other, sane, peoples solutions) was to call this a +1/4 advantage on HKA and be done with it. A vocal contigent, however, insisted on trying to build the effect using existing powers, ending up with the most insanely baroque constructions, all to avoid adding to the sacred and perfect text.