DougGraves

I suggest the reverse solution. When you sidekick make you equal in level instead of 1 below. Is making the sidekick 1 level lower making the game better for anyone?

I think in a world with super powers, aliens, and demons we do not need to worry about having groups match some realistic stereotype of their views on gender.

It is too late to do defense and resistance properly, but done properly they would be multiplicative instead of additive. Right now 5% resistance is almost useless to a blaster. They still take 95% of the damage they would normally take. But to a tanker with 90% resistance already it cuts the amount they take in half. Which means a power pool ability meant to give blaster some resistance is actually useless for them but great for tankers. Instead, the power should be 50% resistance but multiplicative not stacking. A blaster with no other resistance gets it and takes half damage. A tanker with other resistance takes it and takes half the damage they would normally take. The power is of equal value to a blaster and a tanker. So a tanker would have an inherent power with 50% resistance. Then a toggle with 50% resistance. With both on they would take 25% of the damage. They could add on a pool power with 50% resistance to take only 12.5% of the damage.

I liked the complexity of champions and did not feel it was too slow to play. What I disliked was that they made all builds end up being the same with limits - Speed 4-6, Def 25, damage 12d6, etc. Bricks and martial artists had the same speed, to hit, damage, etc. And they had fixed price items that did not work with the scaling points. Speed is just a multiplier of your ability. Going from speed 4 to speed 5 gives you +25% as many actions. It was just always worth it to have a speed of 8 or so. And damage reduction had a fixed cost, so when a character was 350 points you should always have damage reduction - it was just more effective and cheaper than resistance.

The devs have made a bunch of changes such as unlocking everything at character creation instead of requiring a cape mission, etc. They are redoing movement powers - making people go faster. So what other fundamental things should be reconsidered. Not "Regen should be better". Should goldside, redside, and blue side be separate? Should you be able to create a goldside character and be able to go to Atlas and pick up missions from contacts? Have Long Range Teleport let you go between any zones in the game, ignoring sides? Should the game require you to go to contacts to get missions at all? Should you just select them from a contact list and use a cellphone from the start? Should you have to go to a trainer to train?

Early today I created a new character. I decided since I was soloing to play redside. I decided to do the tutorial so I would start at lvl 2 as expected. I decided to do Galaxy City tutorial. In the tutorial I saw 2 other players. Not at the same time, but still 3 players did the Galaxy City tutorial today! Later I got on a blueside character to find a team. Someone was advertising a team on goldside. So I went over and joined them. We got a few more people. This is not a joke. It actually happened. 4 players teamed today on goldside.

is that Stark tower?

Right elec/elec has synergy with END drain. elec/mental has drain psyche which gives -recovery. So /elec and /mental are probably better with elec/ than they are with other primaries. But I suspect a bigger question is what level you are playing at and if you are playing with IO sets. At 50 with IO sets it basically comes down to damage so fire/fire wins. But at level 20 with SOs having controls and other mitigation is actually useful so fire/fire may not win. At least it may not win if soloing, if you team with a tanker you might just want aoe damage.

I am trying out a dual pistols/devices blaster. While it played fairly normally at first, at 20 you get a stealth power. I am sure it is not as good as stalker stealth, but especially when paired with smoke grenade you can basically stealth your missions and live the stalker lifestyle. But dual pistols does not have a sniper attack, so I can't do the whole stalker lifestyle. I know ninjitsu also provides some stealth function for stalkers. So is anyone playing a blaster like a ranged stalker with stealth and snipe (I know it kids these days play stalkers like scrappers)?

that ain't working

We have cable. We have an xbox. We also have Disney+. At first to watch Disney+ we had to plug our laptop into the tv to show it on the tv. Then I discovered our xbox supported Disney+. So we now switch our tv to the xbox and use the xbox controller to get Disney+. I found today that our cable now supports Disney+. But our cable box does not. To use disney+ directly through our cable box with our normal remote we need to get a new cable box. That would mean losing everything on our DVR - which includes this season of Flash, Superman & Lois, and Supergirl (also Frankie Drake, Murdoch Mysteries, and Murder in Paradise). So we have to choose between losing our recordings of episodes we have not yet watched or going through xbox for disney+. I think I would watch a lot more on disney+ like the old xmen cartoons, gargoyles, and more - but it is a bit of a pain to get to them. I strongly suspect that I would not though, as it is not that much of a pain. We get to Falcon and Winter Soldier just fine. So at this point we keep our old cable box. And really, I blame Comcast. Why does adding a new app require a new cable box and not just a software download?

Dark Matter - they lost

In one version I have read, Superman's costume is made from the cloth that arrived with him from Krypton as a baby. It is Kryptonian clothes which is why it is invulnerable. But a later version had superman create a forcefield around himself that extended just far enough to cover his costume.

Dr. Cheng as the contact. I got Wheel of Destruction part 2, finished it and then was given Wheel of Destruction part 1

I like the art.

Superman wears boots? I thought he just had colored socks like spiderman

No, my simple Champions replacement was BASH. I like 4 color heroes with a ton of flexibility in character creation. The other systems I have found tend to have a list of powers you can have and lack the flexibility of Champions.

The fun ones do

I'm a huge champions fan from 1st edition. Are you saying Prowlers & Paragons is better than Champions for superheroes?

Tomb Fisted Kid, the undead cowboy marshal, would fit right in with the All Star Squadron.

We have these recorded but have not watched them. We just finished Season 1 of Orphan Black, so now we will catch up on the CW shows. Good to know 1-3 wrap up the last season. We will probably watch this before Superman and Lois to see how it wraps up.

I like to play with no IO set bonuses. The other IO effects are probably not as bad but clearly have a major impact on play as people design builds around procs, miracle and other bonus END abilities. I frankly don't think that a notoriety option will be used. When I do TFs people do them at +0 with no challenges except maybe 60 min for a tf that takes 30 min. I don't see people advertising teams with no IO set bonuses. I think to make playing with no IO set bonuses really a thing it would need its own server so that like minded people could play there. Of course it might only have a dozen people.

I highly recommend Relics and Rarities. Same thing as Critical Role but only 12 hours long.

My experience with WoW as totally different. I started with the Ice expansion. You could join LFG from anywhere and everyone used it, so you could just go into LFG and get a team. You could do dungeons from level 15 on. I basically just did dungeons and teamed constantly. I played a tank and could get a team instantly. Later on I tried a dps character and discovered that it took 15+ minutes to get a team. So I switched back to tanker.

But the entire LotR trilogy hinges on Gollum trying to figure out what's in Bilbo's pants in the Hobbit.