On the other hand-its hardback, and in print. 'Please begin by inputting your race, gender, and most crippling source of regret.' Character Creator is a five minute hate letter to RPGs, and all the nonsense they put us. This application will help you create a character for use in the Spectrum Role-Playing System (2nd Edition). (not a lot) it is a good solid engine, with lots of flexibility but slightly less than Marvel Saga. 'Welcome to the Spectrum Character Creator. Mutants and Masterminds is excellant for many /different/ levels of play but due to the damage system, hero points, it comes best at doing 3 well, but for the fact that it is a point based system. It covers a broad range of abilities but does the "80's" era X-men well.ģ) Marvel Saga-more ever the top then MSH, more flexibility, I might go with DC Heroes if I really desparatly wanted point build, or something, but frankly Marvel Saga does it much faster and the "over the top" nature of non limited and rather easy to achieve trumps makes this best for this level.Ĥ) At this level your not really playing supers, per se, as most of them still have relativly mortal concerns and hopes, at this level you've gone beyond it-_DC Heroes would work, but you might be better off with something like Everway, or Amber, because your not really playing around singular realities anymore.Īberrant's tone fits the "Dark" era of post Phoenix death of Marvel X-men somewhat but its power level isn't near that stage being much closer to classic JLA, which creates confusion on "what kind of game does it want to be, and what kind of stories should one tell." 1) Vigilantes-Champions-Hero, since it is best at the tiny points which mean little directly scale, it also has a decent system for martial arts (fair, not brilliant) and vehicles, which play a larger role at the smaller end, and possibly Heroes Unlimited (ignore most of the innate powers with "Control" or "Body of" )Ģ) X-men: Take your pick: MSH, Marvel Saga, Villains and Vigilantes, Godsend Agenda, Adventure!ģ) JLA+: DC Heroes (not Dc Universe), Marvel Saga, MSH, Aberrant Godsend Agenda (maybe),ġ) Champions-lots of scaling and differentiation that matters at the scale (though not mechanically so much but it is a bit more finer grained at least in appearance then the others) it also has a lot of good "sub" systems-Martial Arts, Vehicles (not really systems but lots of resources on representing them well.)Ģ) MSH (while I love saga its a bit too over the top for this).