Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

[Ronin]

I think the 3-moves-of-2 dynamic is an interesting case for thematics: flavorful without being strictly accurate. Not surprised the group is of two minds about it. I considered whether it was possible to tweak it for both, but came up blank.

Crowd's leaning just a bit toward the one big move. I'll wait a little longer to see if any stragglers pipe up though, since there's no rush here.

[IAmBatman]

Yeah the strictly accurate thing doesn’t resonate with me in a game where flying is just puddle jumping.

I think there is something a tad sad about every leap, swing, and jump ability basically being flying but that’s probably mostly just a limit of the system.

Ultimately, I’m cool with us going with what works best for the spiderverse.

[Arkham]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Yeah the strictly accurate thing doesn’t resonate with me in a game where flying is just puddle jumping.

I think there is something a tad sad about every leap, swing, and jump ability basically being flying but that’s probably mostly just a limit of the system.

Ultimately, I’m cool with us going with what works best for the spiderverse.

Tbf, it's not that those are essentially just flying, it's that flying is essentially just those. Flying is the one that sticks out to me as being the theme break, as it should be a continuous thing that sees that unit never touch down unless they feel the need to. Not sure how that looks, but yeah, it's the fact that flying is taking up the design space of what leaps and swings are thematically, that makes it rather difficult to see them feel more special given how many have flying. Because a Swing of 6 then touch, feels more thematic than a flyer flying 60 ft. then touching to end their movement each time etc.

Hence why I feel the way I do about preferring the swing be what it should be, rather than really cutting it down to short hops to fit into the scale ceiling that flying creates. Not too unlike our points aren't really to scale when you take a Green Arrow compared to a Superman, or our speed when you take a Flash vs. a Batman etc. etc., an unfortunate nature of trying to get so much power range into a game like this.

[Splash]

Could we allow flyers to end their move in sky terrain?

[IAmBatman]

Originally Posted by Arkham

Flying is the one that sticks out to me as being the theme break, as it should be a continuous thing that sees that unit never touch down unless they feel the need to. Not sure how that looks,

Basically it looks like what Jets/Sky terrain does. But that's probably a tad mechanically complex to stick on everything.

I definitely agree with you that flying isn't translated in a particularly thematic way. That was my point, though. In a game where that's the template and where flying mechanics basically dominate all the movement mechanics, very few movement abilities are really going to feel totally thematically accurate, so sometimes "feeling right" is just feeling different enough from flying.

Anyway, not really something I'm looking to "solve" or need a prolonged discussion about, just wanted to get my perspective out there to sort of explain what I like about the hopping mechanics on web swing. I know they don't resonate that way for everyone, and that's OK.

Not a hill I need to die on, just something I enjoyed about the 1.0 version.

[Ronin]

Alright, went ahead and updated the OP with the 1-move-of-6 direction since that was our leading option.

Let's send him to art.

[MrNobody]

Yea

[japes]

yea

[Ericth74]

yea

[Yodaking]

yea

[IAmBatman]

yea and wording looks good.

[Yodaking]

Are we good on the Web Slinger/Reed interaction? ie. Can you web sling Spider Man or another figure away from Reed? I know place = no swipes, but not sure where we are at with the 'stuck' powers.