Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[ProtoClone]

OK, with a street level game is that just the level of grittiness or does it limit you?

[farik]

[ProtoClone]

[Locke]

The book doesn't describe how you would build a street-level game or a cosmic-level game, but it does give you some slightly different rules to reflect the different "power levels." For instance, street-level heroes have to pay more for their powers to be considered Heavy Weapons (i.e. able to affect targets with Heavy Armor), and the Flight and Speed powers are toned down. Cosmic-level heroes, on the other hand, don't have to pay more for their powers to ignore armor on inanimate objects, and their Flight and Speed powers are ramped up.

There are more changes than that, but the "power level" is more of a dial for you to adjust to get the feeling you want for your campaign. To co-opt farik's example, the GM of a cosmic-level game probably has grander aspirations for his heroes than to be stopping every mugging they come across. On the other hand, the GM of a street-level game will most likely not be pitting his heroes against a universe-ending catastrophe.
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