<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=347842.msg16369189#msg16369189">Quote from: Muse on 31-12-2022, 07:25:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">  I'm still reading this but I want to comment on how impressed I am with Outcast's mastery of this system!  I started out her senpai on this and now--in Eden City--I'm going to her for rules guidance.  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/> :-[<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">  (We have a minor disagreement about arrays, but now that I see how she came to her attitude I understand exactly where the attitude came from.  Thematically we're just one step apart there.  Mechanically we're 100% on the same page.)  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Yeah - I should really have been more explicit: my approach regarding arrays is very much <em>my own opinion</em>, and is at odds with quite a lot of the advice that is available out there on the Web (which tends to encourage the use of arrays absolutely as often as possible, <em>way </em>beyond anything anyone here has advocated)... but I claim the support of a sentence or two in the base rulebook, and how the authors themselves used arrays in some of the setting's signature characters.  ;)<br/><br/>I can't claim to be definitively <em>right</em>... but it's the approach that works better for my inclinations in running a supers game, and it's at least <em>potentially</em> in line with what the system's authors really intended.  In their own work, arrays seem to be reserved for specific purposes.<br/><br/>But for such a big part of the system (and something that they took the trouble to provide extra advice on using), they could <em>really</em> have done a better job of explaining what the heck an array was for and what it should represent!  Arrays can have a really big impact on how characters can actually be used in-play (most notably by making it absolutely impossible to combine the use of some powers), and also on the range of different power effects a given character can unleash.  Rather more system-designer clarity on their IC and OOC role would have been very welcome!  ;D</div>