Being a..... ??

[Neros]

Not so long ago, me and another player where talking about mutant campaigns, and it ended with the great and mystrerious: "Being a Mutant 3w".

As far as i can see, mutants get these extra stones because they are: Hated, Feared, hated and not human... And i think its very unfair that they get those 3w stones. Imagen 2 players, one makes a mutant, and another makes a alien. They both have looking None human at 3w, but the other player would get 3w just because hes a mutant.

Now lets say the pesky humans find out that neither character is humam. So the humans would get upset and all that, and would grab their pitches and torches, and run both of them out of town (and while they do that, give them a kick here and there). Now why should the mutant be more hated than the alien (which looks just as unhuman)? I mean, the humans could/should/did assume that the alien actually was a mutant, but he dident get the challenge stones for it.

So heres the idea, replace Being a Mutant with something like: Outsider, None Human, unknown, ect... People arent that accepting when it comes to the unkown. They fear it and misunderstand it.
Or remove the challenge completly.

On another Note, Looking none human and being none human can in a sense be the same... Even though a normal human had "looking None human", he would still quallify as a mutant (or something els, unless everybody knew he was just a poor kid with a illness)...

[GhostKnight]

I think the "being a mutant" is a flavor. You get detected by sentinels and you can lose your powers if "cured".

[pgholland]

Plus, being an alien could be a challenge in itself anyway, GMs and players are always coming up with new challenges. And having not only a secret ID but a secret species would certainly quallify, especially if people are led to believe that you are a mutant or other 'undesirable' (so in the current marvel story arc i guess that would mean being any sort of hero who isn't a sell-out). But it should be variable and on a case-by-case basis, if a player plays an alien they shouldn't get 3 stones or whatever you decide if they are open about their alien nature because then it's probably not really a problem at all.

[thanos]

There are ways to 'Turn Off' mutant powers (technology, magic, superpower) that would just not wor, or not work the same, against an Alien who's abilities are hardwired into his genetic code vs the enigmatic X-gene.

[malice]

Legacy Virus
Sense Mutants
Suppress Mutant Powers
Hated and feared

Not one of those is a good thing for mutants. I really don't think 3w is a big advantage, and its important to remember that the MURPG developers intended for challenges to be unlimited, which makes 3w even less impressive. Now I'm proud of how I can stretch 3 stones, but everything I know how to do with 3 is minor stuff, like buying a low tech action or something else for flavor, you really can't make or break the game with just 3 stones.

[Neros]

Supress mutant power also works on mutagenic (so everything which have had their abilities/powers increased/altered).... The same goes for Mutagenic...

Mutants:
Legacy Virus
Sense Mutants
Suppress Mutant Powers
Hated and feared (before this really kicks, people need a way to see hes a mutant).

Mutagenic:
Sense Mutants
Suppress Mutant Powers
Hated or/and feared (depending on looks).

Aliens:
Hated or/and feared (again, looks but even being a alien can be scary).

So it can be just as much (okay not that much) a challenge to be a mutagenic.

[malice]

That's a fair point, and I'm not disagreeing that mutants being the only ones with a specific challenge feels a little wierd at times.

I was mostly just looking at the relative starting power difference of a mutant and any other character. 41 stones for most normal characters (40 + 1 mandatory challenge) and 43 for a mutant (40 + mutant challenge), and didn't see much of an advantage.

If you really wanted to fix it, PG pointed out the easiest solution: just make one up. The MURPG writers may have intended that and just didn't have enough space to put a challenge for all the different species you could be.