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Originally Posted by Blackberry
How would you compare your problems with the system (damage bookkeeping, scale problems between normals and supers, and confusing application of stats) with the HERO System, which is commonly cited as having all three of those problems?
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It's a little hard to compare a highly crunchy system like HERO with Truth&Justice.
Clearly, damage bookkeeping is much less than HERO but more than, say, Fudge. HERO has a huge amount more bookkeeping in general. On the other hand, I don't see that HERO has problems of interactions of the normal/super scale. It has some scale problems at the very big (where you have an unwieldy number of dice), and at the very small (i.e. below average human). But the scale is smooth between agent, super-agent, and superhero. HERO is rather unusual that it has carefully defined rules for superpowers and how they interact -- I've more often heard the opposite complaint that powers are narrowly defined by effects. i.e. You can't use your lightning bolt power to power an electrical machine unless you previously defined something like a multipower with END Reserve, Usable By Others.
As I started my review with, I think the two (HERO vs T&J) are pretty clearly very different animals.