Re: Abusing the system in HW

Ah, but like all starting hero wars charecters this is not old supes as he is today after earning hundreds of hero points. This is supes as he started out in 1939, when he was "mearly" able to leap tall buildings and not fly faster than the speed of light while battling 49 flavers of villian and carrying a planet.

• In HeroWars_at_y..., Paul Andrew King <paul_at_m...> wrote:
  > >ya see, the thing about old Supes is that he's a telly character
  (ignore the
  > >comics for a moment) and as such is bound to the same mythos as
  people like
  > >7of9 and Xena.
  >
  > (side note : the comics are the "canonical" source fo superman so
  > forgetting them is not viable).
  >
  > >
  > >I don't believe that I've seen Xena fail to wield her sword like a
  master or
  > >7of9 fail to see the logic of a situation. Also, there's the
  whole thing of
  > >skills previously relied upon and believed to be infallible
  suddenly not
  > >working. (please don't correct me on points of Star Trek or Xena
  history!)
  >
  > TV characters fail when the script demands it.
  >
  > >
  > >The other thing about Superman is that he's an established Hero
  and a
  > >starting skill of 17, 13, 1W or 5W would be quite ridiculous to
  force on one
  > >of those. Perhaps he's a bad example but there have been skill
  figures
  > >quoted for proper Heroes (note the capital), demi-gods and gods.
  These
  > >Heroes (and greater) I mention are always Narrator characters are
  they not?
  > >
  > >So would be Superman.
  >
  > I agree with that, the problem is forcing a mechanic onto abilities
  > that don't really fit. Superman could "always" run much faster
  than
  > any normal human and in any normal situation could guarantee doing
  > so. His speed can not be accurately represented by a human-level
  > ability that had the *potential* to increase beyond human limits
  nor
  > by one that only worked occasionally.
  >
  > In short, Hero Wars puts limits on abilities that mean that you
  > cannot do Superman as a starting character - only someone with
  weaker
  > abilities (many or perhaps all of them, the same as a normal
  human's)
  > and massive growth potential or somebody with unreliable versions
  of
  > the same abilities.
  >
  > The one possible area of weakness is the GM setting too low
  > Resistances for abilities that "work" by overcoming the World's
  > resistance.
  >
  > --
  > --
  > "The T'ang emperors were strong believers in the pills of
  > immortality. More emperors died of poisoning from ingesting
  minerals
  > in the T'ang than in any other dynasty" - Eva Wong _The Shambhala
  > Guide to Taoism_
  >
  > Paul K.