What can I say? Sorry, Jeff, but this one was a MAJOR disappointment! First of all, yes, I like Jeff's artwork... but, after the cover, most of the artwork is 'recycled' art, copyrighted before 1990! Not good... Then, there's the new Game system. V&V, this isn't! You can't really roll up a random character without eventually going back to the 'point-buy' mechanics to flesh things out... The Point-Buy system doesn't use a 'doubling every level' mechanic, relying instead on the far more 'intuitive' exponent of 1.413 (or something like that!), to calculate advantages and limitations... The Skill purchase system is reminiscent of GURPS, where it rapidly becomes more cost effective to buy a larger attribute, than to buy Skill Levels... And the actual Game Mechanics, once you're ready to play, are very much like those of Earthdawn! The larger the die you roll, the less likely you are to 'fumble', yes... but the less likely, as well, that you will achieve any kind of 'critical' success! {And, what's a 'fumbel' mechanic doing in a Superhero RPG, anyways?} Finally, we get exactly ONE example character, and very little in the way of the kinds of charts and tables that made V&V such a great game! No 'Encounter Tables', for example... I wanted to like this game, but now, just the thought of opening it again makes me want to cringe! <br><br><b>LIKED</b>: The cover art was nice, and the print job, by LULU, was quite professional.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: See 'Comments'...<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Poor<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Ripped Off<br>

Okay, guys, what were you thinking, when you did this? It's not fast and simple... It's not play balanced... You've got complex and cumbersome rules for things that don't need any rules at all... {Like how to make Force Constructs move, since 'of course' you can't let the power give people flight, like it does in the Comics!}

And it certainly isn't going to appeal to Power Gamers (1d4 damage, twice per day... and then, only if the uses are 12 hours apart? This is a 'Superpower'?}!

Neither does it give 'Real Roleplayers' much to chew on, since everything is almost completely free of setting...

Sorry, but I really don't see what the point of publishing this one was!

I found this one to be a major waste of time... Not enough setting information to be really useful, but too much to simply shrug and ignore... Character classes and equipment were all things I could have done better on my own... 'Mutant Powers' rely on a 'point build' system which tends to yield very similar characters, without giving you that 'Gamma World' kind of Weirdness...

The basic setting is both far too mundane, and not at all believable!

Sorry, this one just didn't do anything for me, at all...

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The 'freebies' seem to have exceeded the things that I purchased by about 5 to 1 in page count, and a lot of it seems to be of very good quality, indeed!