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Majestic wrote on Feb 13^th, 2015 at 2:54pm:


Sorry about that. I thought I selected the box to allow multiple votes. 

Ease of play should be a choice. 
The thing that draws me back to the game now is how simple the rules are, versus 3.5 D&D.  I guess so much of V&V depends on the GM rulings.  I don't need to remember every little nook rule - I can just go with what seems fair.

Ditto Matt and Phrennzy. Easy to run a game, fun to hang out with friends and imagine we are super-heroes.
I like that there is not a rule to check for every possible outcome of every possible event in the game. I also like playing "ME" - or at least me form 1990

I too wanted to pick multiple choices - art, adventure books, sourcebooks, and combat chart - but had to limit myself to the first on the list.  Nonetheless, all elements add up to this game being Just Plain Damned Good - as always, other games (at least the few I'm familiar with) have given it a good run for its money in one aspect or another, but still have not cracked the barrier that V&V set.

I have so many super hero RPGs, always looking the one that will match my expectations, they all miss something in one way or another, even games I like and am happy to play; some are just plain bad (MHRP) across the board despite whatever hype they have received. I keep coming back to V&V and a couple of others. It's no nostalgia trip. I tried out some newer games like M&M (2nd and the awful 3rd) but most of them I just can't get into.  I think the brevity of V&V is an item in its favor.  Brevity is the soul of wit.  And honestly, if you need hundreds of pages to adjudicate a game, are you even playing a game anymore or are you playing the home version of The People's Court?

I'll have to back Matt's point the big one hundred; the "brevity is the soul of wit" statement is one that I was considering when looking over some of the previous comments.  Volume (as any one of our high school/college/university English profs would have emphasized) has absolute zero correlation with quality.  V&V does have some clean-up work to attend to, to be sure...mostly with regard to hit point calculation, power level differentiation and the bugbear of armor/invulnerability.  The 3.0 stuff Jeff's posted on the MHG site flat-out addresses a number of these concerns; nonetheless, 2.0/2.1 still rules the roost when it comes to sheer playability.  M&M 2.0 - and I completely agree with your assessment on 3.0, Matt - and similar games are excellent resources to rip stuff off of and append to V&V.  As constitutional scholars have stated repeatedly, it's the systems that leave themselves most open to prudent change and alteration that have the greatest chance for survival.

Chose the "je ne sais quoi" because to be honest, there aren't much other options listed below that i appreciate about this game:

- Artworks are a kind of dirty pleasure: so 70-80ish but trashy too
- Mathematics are really logic and and well-thought but frustrating in certain cases (for example when you have to rearrange, like, EVERYTHING in your parameters if you get Size Change, or are targeted or have to target someone/something with Gravity Control)
- I don't really like the idea of "being yourself" in a roleplaying game (even though a very talented master could make it thrilling, exploiting the meta-gaming nature of this rule in interesting and creative ways)
- The combat chart is kinda messy and incomplete imho, but is made right by the fact that the game leaves a lot of freedom to characters and the Game Master too, both for roleplaying instead of searching lost rules in some shady index rulebook and dealing with entire situations with pure logic and creativity instead a bunch of limiting mechanics.

What i like most is random generation actually (which is not contemplated by the game), and consequently dealing with those powers the best way you can to make them work together, as any superhero would do.

Majestic wrote on Oct 29^th, 2015 at 6:23pm:


Perhaps he meant with regards to the actual ability scores of the PC's. The Power Tables are all keyed to random dice rolls and there are rules for randomly generating NPC's so I think it's quite right to say V&V has random generation as part of its "DNA" (although the GM is always free to throw it out if they want).

Shadowdragon