Echoes of the Multiverse

Pumpernickel wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:17 pm Are there any games on here that are open and also on discord?

For the most part, games here are Play by Post, but there is an active semi-official (run by a Green Ronin employee) Discord here, although I'm not certain which games might be open.

Things have been a bit quiet around here lately, but The Gaming Table is where the PbP games go.

I highly enjoyed the film as well. For once, the climactic fight in an MCU movie looked like it involved actual people instead of a CGI-fest (although I'm sure there was probably a decent amount of CGI doubling to allow for easier superheroic movement). I liked that they gave a reason for the wooden...

As I noted in the Discord, 2E Cloud also halved the diameter from Burst. You missed Explosion (part of Ultimate Power, but so was Targeted), which doubles the diameter, but reduces 1 rank per increment. Also, it's worth noting that 2E Shapeable covered a decent area while 3E... 30 cubic feet sounds ...

This also reminds me of how the "Trance" feat persisted from 1e to 2e despite being a very niche thing.

There's also the Flash foe known as the Top. I really hope that John Broome had no idea of the other meaning of that term. It was the sixties, so I don't think he would have, but ... Meh, at that point, you also have to start questioning anyone named Bear, Daddy, or the like. Now The Whizzer, on th...

And as I think I mentioned in the Discord, someone pointed out that Green Ronin archetypes / characters typically averaged about PL-2 across the three "exotic saves" of Reflex, Will, and Fortitude, which led a number of people to adapt it as informal caps for their games.

One thing I do miss from the second edition Containers was a better exploration of the duration of the combined effects. If someone has a bunch of powers combined with an Activation, is maintaining that form Sustained? Continuous? If someone attempts to Broad Nullify your "Beast Form", do ...

One thing lost with not transporting the idea of an Array over to 3E is the ability to add more points than the most expensive power, such as with Dynamic Arrays. Weirdly enough, in the Gadget Guides, their Wide Array (And the second edition version of that, introduced in the Masterminds Manual, was...

I also wished they'd kept the "Super-Senses" name. Much like the situation with Create and Movement, the term suddenly became too generic to easily search for via text.

Sorry for being unclear. Yes, Power Reserve gives a consistent discount to the Dynamic APs, as well as giving you some free ones at the start.

Power Reserve is simply a Dynamic Array with a limitation that it only applies to powers that already have ranks, and with "free" dynamic on them. It's also a decent way to handle a separate descriptor (psychic powers, but the Power Reserve is Technology-based). In 3E, it would come out as...

The one place where I feel they really fumbled things in terms of the replacement for boost was the idea of a reaction boost. Somehow, they turned it into it being the same cost to have access to those ranks at all times, or the only have them in certain circumstances, and immediately fading. It jus...

I kind of miss 2E Emotion Control too. Such a wide variety of powerful effects available... although some of them required errata to make sense, like Calm.

I believe that Activation also involves a degree of Noticeable, which helps reduce the "I took this action before we started the adventure" argument. Much like having a weapon drawn, it's evident that you're prepared to fight. Speaking of which, I thought Noticeable still had a "secon...