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ICONS Advancement System

Started by RPGPundit, January 16, 2011, 12:29:17 AM

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drkrash

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June 04, 2015, 07:27:58 AM
Quote from: Matt;834950Almost all characters have increased in power from the '60s to today but not because of "experience." Remember the publishers keep changing the start dates of he characters' careers so they are always just about as experienced as they were way back when but just started in a later era. They have increased in power owing to fanboys taking over the industry and publishing their fantasy versions of the heroes they love, which is sales gimmickry.

Iron Man's higher power level is because he now started his career in 2005 with 2005 technology rather than 1963 with 1963 technology. Not because he accrued a million XP.

This is why Spider-Man is perpetually portrayed as inexperienced, despite having more adventures than anyone outside Batman and Superman, and gets mentored by less experienced characters like Iron Man or Captain America in the comic books, whereas in an RPG Spidey would be a good dozen levels up on those guys. Yet he never got more powerful than Thor or more capable than Cap.

Sure.  And there is obviously a translation issue across mediums in that regard.  But from a comic reader's perspective who is also a gamer, it *appears* these guys earn experience.  As a middle-aged comics reader, I *never* conceptualize that start dates of heroic careers are re-set except for the occasional moments when it is explicitly mentioned by the characters (and then I basically ignore it).  And that's why games are right to have advancement.
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