It's super in depth, but since you have to make every aspect of a power and they don't show the process of actually doing so as an example, it's frustrating... especially since you have no idea how strong you need to MAKE your attacks.
I've looked at that first one before but it does nothing to explain just how strong an attack should be for the various power levels or how accurate you need to make it to reliably hit.
Character creation is incomprehensible.
That... that sounds awesome!
I would dub this character Critical Mass, for the awesome ability and awesome fat joke.
It's a fun concept for a character but it made playing the game not fun at all. Took out the villains before anyone else got a turn, and then my whole team was injured.
I named him Stretch Mark.
Hmmm. At first I was like, No, that's what you call an elastic character (plastic man, Mr fantastic, Elastigirl), but I guess it makes sense.
If you gain that much weight that rapidly, you're gonna have some stretch marks.
Have you tried not making a super powerful character? Because you can doesn't mean you have to, and usually the DM will decide what's kosher and tell characters no.
That's great and all, but the thing is I wasn't trying to create some mega game breaking character. If I was the kind of player who played like that, I wouldn't really have a right to point out the flaws in this game's character creation. My DM helped me to create the character, since the character creation is so horribly complex, and he deemed this the best way to go about the power we had come up with. (The DM is also my roommate and the idea for the power came out of a conversation we had). In any case, although my character's powers broke combat, there were other problems we had with character creation. Other than character creation being a disaster I really can't say much else about the game. I don't even actually remember how combat works because the power I had didn't require rolls (except for the rolls on my fat character's belly, amirite?)
I found your problem, you should use second edition only, and pretend that the third doesnt exist, speak of it only whispers.
