DoctorDitko

But... Adam West Spider-man just wouldn't work at all!

Which is why you stand behind the bad guys for +4 and double damage!

Honestly, it probably has more to do with merging divergent source trees and reconciling changes than anything else. It takes orders of magnitude more effort to reconcile the changes from plural development teams.

How about a more focused look at under-performing sets? Just patch the worst offenders in unpopular sets with a better alternative. (I'm looking at you, Time Bomb!) Much less work than trying to rebalance an entire powerset, but it could make a lot of people happy to hit the lowest-hanging, most rotten fruit.

Well said! Though to me, TFT>GURPS; it's the elegance.

Erm, if people substitute words, you're not to blame. "I solemnly swear to tell the *****, the whole *****, and nothing but the *****, so help me ***!" Go in good conscience, it's not you with the problem, it's those *****.

Uh, "WoW!" That sounds like an awful lot of work. Thanks for the explanation. I can see why my WoW-addicted friends don't get the same endorphin rush from CoH. For me, I think I'm where I belong.

It makes a nice auto-fire choice when ghost-hunting. The ones that charge right up and get in your face get an axe in theirs.

DCUO, despite having plusses like Kevin Conroy's voice (he is the One True Batman after all), couldn't hold my interest either. It felt an awful lot like being at one of those slick amusement parks where every step is cleverly designed to fleece you of more money. I always thought Champions was the best designed and executed tabletop Superhero RPG, all I ever wanted was computer assistance for all the die-rolling and bookkeeping. I was very disappointed in the MMO version, they seemed to have lost the good parts from the p&p game and not replaced it with anything worthwhile. For all its flaws, CoH seemed to get the spirit of Superheroes right more than any of its rivals. From mission one you feel Super. Not like Superman, but definitely more like a comic book hero than your average basement-rat-killing FRPG newb does an epic fantasy hero.

For a guy who comes across as a party animal, Drew's Super-Powered series is both well thought out and surprisingly serious in places. Memorable characters, a believable interface between the real and comic-esque worlds, good characters and clever twists, plausible bad guys, just good stuff all 'round. Have a look (the Kindle first hit is free, kids!) https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=drew+hayes+super-powereds&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

I'll never play WoW, can you elaborate?

Weeeellll, for one thing, most of us are a decade older! It's certainly turned my Superleap into Combat Jumping!

I read that as "Fairly Psychic Rose." lol! Made me think of the 9th Doctor.

"Lettuce that wilts, shall be the cole of the slaw!"

OK, that's what I thought. Thanks! I hate giving wrong information!

But if they also install the mod, won't they see his lightsaber as he does? Or is it only for the wielder?

Having played an old-style Willpower Tank to 50 (pre fixed Taunt Aura), I concur that Taunt is the essential Tank trait. Gauntlet is very welcome, but you need the Taunt to be the Tank. And, BTW, Welcome Home!

Nature of the beast. These kinds of mods are client-side only, so not so much a bug as the only way it can be done. Regular teammates can be pointed here so they too can enjoy your bad-assery!

Doesn't matter, there are always N - 1, where N is the number you want!

Ah, Shi'ar! That's the Huckleberry! Very cool links, thanks. Good read! From what I see, they went out of their way to get closer to Superman as he evolved. Didn't mention his power rationale, though. Did they keep the "it's all TK" explanation?

I remember Marvel did a Superman Expy and tried to rationalize his powers. (I think he was Kree? Gladiator or some such? With the big black mohawk haircut.) Anyway, their take was that all his powers are really Telekinesis. TK force fields for toughness, TK to pick up a building by one corner brick, TK flight. I liked it, but not sure it covers everything. Still, the Alan Moore-esque out-of-the-box noodling was cool. (His job on Marvelman Miracleman was inspired! [But, IMNSHO, nothing beats his run on Supreme!]) And of course, his 2-issue farewell to the Silver Age Superman is required reading for all superhero scholars. I'm sorry, what was the question again?

Shy Erotic Foe?

Welcome home! I find Ice to be good, slows help everything go better. You might have room to try more than one character though.

I'll agree with you in the sense that they are the stand-out worst of all possible choices in their universe. "Ooooh, crappy Inherent and I get to spend my first ten levels fighting Vahzilok? Sign me up!" -- said no PC more than once.