Re: [BNW] Bomber, cool or stupid?

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

>     You make a couple good points here about how the power should work, but it's
> the above that gets me the most.  Where's the fun in playing a package that you
> have to use so sparingly?  During a battle, the Blasters are going to town
> shooting at everything, the Flyers are zipping all over the place, the
> Teleporters are popping in and out, and there's the Bomber, dinking away at
> folks with his Colt 2000, waiting for the _possibility_ that he'll get to use
> his power before the rest of the team take out the bad guys.  All I'm saying is
> that I'd want to play a character whose powers I can actually use without
> seriously hindering my movement or manual dexterity. ;-)

Yeah, I can see that Bob. It's like in D&D. You like playing fighters who
can use their fighting abilities all the time. But you don't like mages
who can only do one or two big-bang effects before being out of spells.

Of course this same arguement could be used for other PP like the sneak or
the gadgeteer (suppose the group gets into a fight when he doesn't have
his suit handy).

I picture the bomber as kind of the one-shot cannon of the group. He stays
back in reserve, using a gun. Waits for a clear path to the big guy and
goes in and takes him out in one big bang.

-Theo McGuckin, operations
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