How to Do Basic Combat in Mutants & Masterminds

This goes over the VERY basics of combat encounters in Mutants & Masterminds. I play a mock scenario and show you how initiative, injuries, movement, etc... work on the battlefield. Because this is merely an introduction to combat, the advanced combat techniques video with be the next video that I make, so stay tuned for it!
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[@opburst2420]

Loving the videos! They've been a huge help in learning the game! I want to run a game of my my own with my friends but i bet itll be a while 😂

[@Gragas2]

Thank you very much. Very helpful as always. :)

[@WeeknightHero]

Glad to hear it!

[@TheNoobRapter]

I am having trouble understanding most of this, most likely because I do not watch anime. like guy throws and attack, ok what stats are added together to get the results? because the guy has the "something something whatever" he uses his action to stop the guy but it fails, the what? and how? I had to watch this video like 5 times and crack open the book to try and understand this. what I could grasp. 1. initiative, no problem. 2. active defenses, ... you said the word active defense, no idea how it works. 3. injuries and recovery, their is a pain scale but damage did nothing because of a power. 4. general tactics. just hitting someone repetitively is not the best tactic.

[@WeeknightHero]

The combat video series had a lot of the answers you’re looking for! I would start with combat basics

[@cherylblossomD20]

My only issue with the example is the use of Naruto. If you don't have any idea of the powers,abilities or characters, it's going to go over people's heads and really lose people.

[@WeeknightHero]

That might be fair. From the metrics I get on here it seems like a majority of the people would have a good understanding of Naruto. Thankfully the fight itself is not so complicated to make it difficult to understand

[@cherylblossomD20]

@@WeeknightHero Thanks for the reply. I guess I'm coming at it from when I was a new player and how the information is taken in as I'm teaching a new player. Because I don't watch Naruto, I would have been fixed on the names that everything around the powers and abilities would have done more to confuse me than to understand the basics of how combat works. Now,combat makes sense,day one all I saw was "To do combat you fimflane into the grape jelly and hoppledope and roll dice" lol I guess my fear is that a new player that doesn't know much( like I once did) will come to watch the video to learn the basics and might get confused. I could be wrong. I could be flat out wrong here.

[@austinmozer4638]

0:18 ummm, what's this lol

[@WeeknightHero]

😅😂