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How do you treat VPP's AP in regards to a Campaign Limit?

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Again, this comes down to the difference in your mind between "Optional Rule™" and "Rule that is Optional".  Despite Hugh's protestations, Active Point caps are a rule, by every sane definition, they're just not a rule written down in the official rule books.  Just like "in this game you get extra points to build a character with if you bring M&Ms to share" isn't a rule written down in the rulebooks... but its a rule.

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    • Hugh Neilson
      Hugh Neilson

      Why should the size of the pool be limited at all? I would require, as a campaign standard (so no points saved as a limitation) that the maximum AP of any single power in the pool be the campaign max

    • HeroGM
      HeroGM

      Personally I let people go as high as they can afford. Look at Green Lantern. I can see the Power Ring having a VPP with some per-defined powers, plus the ability to come up with things on the fly wit

    • Hugh Neilson
      Hugh Neilson

      The flexibility of a VPP comes with the Control Cost, which erodes the character's CP (even more rapidly if he wants to change the powers in combat rapidly and reliably).  No one ends up with "everyth

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    5 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said:

    Again, this comes down to the difference in your mind between "Optional Rule™" and "Rule that is Optional".  Despite Hugh's protestations, Active Point caps are a rule, by every sane definition, they're just not a rule written down in the official rule books.  Just like "in this game you get extra points to build a character with if you bring M&Ms to share" isn't a rule written down in the rulebooks... but its a rule.

     

    When the official rules include standard rules, optional rules and something specified as "are not official Hero System rules in any way; there are no specific instructions for them, or requirements that you institute them," that last "something is not a rule.  The official Hero System rules specifically state that they are not Hero System rules.

     

    They go beyond being "not a rule written down in the official rule books" (which is the very definition of a house rule - a rule we use in this game which is not in, or even differs from, the official rules) - they are something which are not rules, as specifically stated in the official rule books.

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