Mutants and Masterminds Beginner Characters

[Rynjin]

Yeah.

Though I can tell you that in both 2e and 3e, one of the WORST characters a beginner can try to make is a "peak human" character; your Captain America, Batman, Green Arrow, Deathstroke, Taskmaster, etc. archetype.

It is a universal issue with the system that powers cost a hell of a lot less than anything else, and are also pound for pound more expensive. Skills are overpriced, attributes are overpriced, weapon proficiency is overpriced, especially if you're going for a "master of all weapons" deal.

As a quick example, you can get the ability to fight well with every type of weapon for about FOUR TIMES the cost of just buying a melee Damage power that has a flexible power upgrade that can deal any type of damage you want. It's even less cost efficient if you want to add your Strength attribute to damage instead of just dealing the Power rank, since there are hard caps on how high your damage rank can be anyway.

It takes way more mechanical mastery to make one of these types of characters than I find reasonable.