[BNW] Re: Regs and Deltas

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

> > *shrug* Your mileage may vary, but my understanding was that a great 
>deal
>of
> > Batman's appeal was that he was a normal guy, with no powers, trained 
>and
> > disciplined to the heights of human perfection.  To make him a
>super-powered
> > guy (and presumably one that doesn't have a clue he actually has
> > super-powers) seems to take away from a great deal of that appeal.
>
>It was the thing I liked about the casting of Michael Keaton in the first 2
>Batman movies.  He was an average looking guy... just like my Hapkido
>instructor.  You don't have to be big and buff to kick the hell out of
>people.
>
>People like to play extremes; spy, superheroes of the comic kind, great
>warriors, Edgerunnings, time travelers, etc.  When you tone down the power
>levels, it has less appeal.  Perhaps if Deltas were not as low-powered, 
>they
>might have more appeal.  Comic book heroes have, for the most part, a 
>narrow
>range of powers (brick, martial artist, energy projector, etc).  But they
>are good at it.  To make them otherwise lowers the interest level.
>

Sure.  Which is why (unlike, say, a system that lets you design your power 
package to your campaign's and/or personal taste ;) ), any Reg system I 
would create and post would be purely an optional one, and created with the 
understanding it is an optional one.

> > Besides...does _everything_ have to be about Deltas?  In the BNW
>revisionist
> > history to date, almost all of the movers and shakers and "name" folks 
>in
> > general eventually end up being Deltas.  Your mileage may vary, but IMO
> > there must be a few Regs out there that want to take the fight to 
>Kennedy
>as
> > well.
>
>Many games tend to do that.  And to some extent, it makes sense; the
>exceptional are the ones that do things.  But it can be taken too far.  You
>also have to remember that the focus of the game is Deltas, so it will tend
>to lean that way.
>

Well, some folks have argued that way - some have argued that the focus 
_isn't_ on Deltas, or at least what makes a Delta a Delta (i.e., his 
superpower).  But rather that the focus is on what you do against tyranny 
and the stripping of rights.

When I worked at White Wolf and on the Vampire line, one of the first things 
I was told was _not_ to make every important character a Vampire, or a 
Werewolf, or a Mage, or whatever.

Anyhoo, there's a difference between leaning towards Deltas as the only 
significant contributors, and only mentioning Deltas as the significant 
contributors.  No doubt there may be a couple of Regs I am overlooking, but 
generally one gets the impression that Regs really don't do much of anything 
except cave-in a great deal...

---

Steve Crow

"Worm Can Opener Extraordinare"

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