What setting Is best for Mutant and MasterMinds

[KallMeKip]

My players have decided that they want to play MnM, But im not shure what powerlevel would be good for begging players. Any reccomendations?

[Tadanori Oyama]

That depends how many mistakes you're willing to balance against their level of fun. The point based system is amazing, adaptive, and complex so first time players are certain to make calculation mistakes.

Personally, I like starting at Power Level 10 and playing fleshed out heroes. It allows players to generalize, specialize, or bastardize their character as they see fit.

I'm sure Tom can give you much better insight into running a game than me.

[KallMeKip]

One more think should i go with the grim and gritty dark knight. Or should i go with The old chezzey ones where the word pow comes up when they hit ppl. One player wants Dark, One wants light. And the third player refuses to voice and opion

[Tadanori Oyama]

Like 50s noir detective gritty, 80's ultra violent gritty, or retro 90s-00s mind fuck gritty?

[KallMeKip]

Ultra violent

[Tadanori Oyama]

Lower power would work fine than. Focus on the really, really nasty stuff and keep the total Power Points a little lower to make things quicker and easier for new players. I'd say Power Level Six or Seven, maybe lower.

[rayner23]

When I ran the game, we had a nice blend of grim and four color. It had insane things in it and it also had wacky superhero action. If you create a city that is large enough that the landscape is always different, then you open yourself up to all sorts of possibilities.

Or you can have a city of golden agey heroes and another of grim characters. Hell, DC does it today even. Metropolis is for big science action and Gotham is for gritty acts of violence.

[KallMeKip]

Cool Thanks for all the help guys. Now i just need to decide TL.

[Tom Church]

If you want violence, the Iron Age sourcebook is a good tool to have.  It has lists of hundreds of different guns, even though all of them still do the same damage as the usual light pistol, heavy pistol, shotgun, etc.

The bonus is, in really violent games with guns, players want to specify what kind of gun they are using.  Players don't want to wield a heavy pistol, they want to wield an Israeli Arms .50 coliber Desert Eagle with chrome plating and a pearl handle with a dragon inscribed on it.

And if you want REAL violence, just make the effect of punching a guy in the head with superstrength do what a punch should do coming from a guy who can lift a subway car.  Ewwwwww.

[arthwollipot]

The bonus is, in really violent games with guns, players want to specify what kind of gun they are using.  Players don't want to wield a heavy pistol, they want to wield an Israeli Arms .50 coliber Desert Eagle with chrome plating and a pearl handle with a dragon inscribed on it.

Only if they actually know something about guns, which not all violent players do. I play a Solo in a Cyberpunk game and I'm happy to refer to my 9mm jacked pistol and assault rifle. I don't really care what particular kind of gun it is. YMMV.

[Maze]

Fucking unnecessary abbreviations .

Anyway, I've started a Mutants & Masterminds game in a really light setting. Superheroes don't kill and villains are really eccentric people with varying degrees of lawbreaking. The players like it and so do I at this point. I've decided to go that way because D&D and a lot of other system takes killing and murder so lightly it's ridiculous. I enjoy a serious game too but it's a nice change to not have to kill people in their bed or slaughter animals (dubbed monsters for the sake of making it "okay")

[clockworkjoe]

This thread is great fodder for a superhero game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5804&page=1