Got a Mutants and Masterminds question for you, super-friends.

>>51439205
>First, how exactly does Alternate Effect work?
You can have an alternative effect up to the cost/ranks of the primary effect - cost of the alternate effect is 1pp plus extras

You can only use one effect at a time so if you had Enhanced Strength 5 with an alternate effect of Enhanced Toughness 5 you could only have one active at a time

>>51439285
So does that mean you could buy a whole bunch of alternate attack powers that are worth the same amount of points? You'd only use one per turn anyways.

>>51439412
Yes.

>>51439285
>1 PP plus Extras
Extras are part of the base cost.

The AP costs 1 PP. That's it.

>>51439412
And yes, this is fully intended.

This modifier allows you to “swap-out” the effect for an entire
other, alternate, effect! For example, a Damage effect
with the descriptor of “laser” might have a visual Dazzle
as an Alternate Effect: the same light beam can be used
to damage or blind a target, just not both at once. Think
of Alternate Effects as different “settings” for a power. (For
combinations of effects that work simultaneously, see the
Linked modifier in this section.) A set of Alternate Effects
is called an array.

>>51439456
Doesn't seem like much of a draw back. Then again that's in the theme of heroes, to have lots of different attack powers and blasts.

Any suggestion for bad guy design? I'm making a fire-breathing jet plane monster. And how about the maximum defense?

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>>51439205
My players don't really like this system's combat at all, one of the biggest overall complaints being that they don't know how effective they're attacks are because I roll resistances in secret or that the rolls are too "swingy".

I personally think its my fault as a beginner GM for fucking some numbers up and trying to end combat quickly so that I could get to the roleplaying part they all like.

How do I advertise this system's strength the best?

>>51439934
>they don't know how effective they're attacks are because I roll resistances in secret or that the rolls are too "swingy"
Can't you tell them through narration how much damage they are approximately doing?

>one the the players punches an enemy but doesn't do much damage
>"your punch didn't move the enemy at all, he seems unphased"

>another player shoots lasers at it which do a lot of damage
>"the lasers leave scorch marks on the enemies skin, he's reeling from the pain"

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>>51441242
His players might be the type that tune out all the fluff and only care about the crunch

I can't count the number of times my players have missed cool shit because they where only paying attention to the damage numbers and missed all the hints I was giving them