Looking for some help on an RPG

I greatly appreciate the time and effort you are putting into creating a game that won't see commercial release. I would love to play it some day and (have the time and energy) to contribute to the creative process even though I'm not so familiar with Megaman lore.

My thoughts/feelings on using copyrighted material are mixed and somewhat incoherent.
1) I value originality and creativity above all else when it comes to making games.
2) I have zero respect for intellectual property laws which I feel are oppressive and disgusting, they are 100% made to benefit large established publishing companies and 0% to protect the rights and creative efforts of individual artists (I'm using the term "artist" very broadly) - when they do work out if favour of the individual it is because the individual is either very lucky or very clever - mostly they exist to keep the powers that be on top and I see them as restricting creativity rather than protecting people from having their hard work poached.
3) I see using somebody else's hard work as disgusting and would never do that myself - however, but this I mean actually stealing, not adapting things and developing something that was never intended by the original artists. For example, a cheap spinoff tcg based on Dungeon Keeper which was no fun to play but rode the game's popularity would disgust me, but a complicated and intricate board game with a 600 page rule book based on this game would interest me.

As I see it, you are not using Mega Man as a "selling point" of your game, the game is more a tribute to a video game series I take it you enjoy. The platform games are difficult (to play and) adapt to become a pencil and paper rpg and I see a lot of creativity going into this effort. If you were writing a computer game which used Mega Man, I'd strongly urge you to consider inventing your own source material, but making a p&p rpg out of a series of platform video games is something I can respect.

Sorry, my random opinions don't really help you finish the project, do they? I hope you do though.

That's good. As I said the important thing to define is the focus of your game. Left-off advice is great as it shows a game that has a mechanic that really works well to convey a certain type of play experience.
First you need to define what are the core values of your game. Since it's an RPG think of the ways players interact with the world and how the world reacts. What kind of world are they inhabiting and what challenges are the players going to face.
When you have all that stuff defined it'll be easier for you to look for mechanics that work well with that.

That is fantastic advice! I'll keep it in mind for future projects.

I skimmed over your rules and it seems to be ok. Seems to be clear, not too overtly complicated.
I think what you need to do is to playtest a lot. Things might look great on paper but then you'll find out that in practice they don't pan out as expected. By playing you can check if the flow of the game is what you expect. I like that you are going for a dynamic game with the action and reaction points but I wonder if that system will hold up during play.
You can even do some solo play runs to get a feel or where the game is going.

My advice is to get the core of the game working and once you get a good game out of that you can go and add depth. For example character creation could have some limitations regarding wich upgrades can go next to other. Let's say you divide upgrades on typical RPGs atributes. So you have upgrades for speed, strenght, intelligence, energy and resistance so you can create a character focused on one stat using all the upgrades of the same type, or you can mix upgrades but with some limitations, like you can't put a speed upgrade next to a strenght upgrade and the strenght upgrade can't be next to an intelligence one.

This is something that was on top of my mind so take it just as an example it might be a terrible fit with your game.

So to sum up, playtest, playtest, playtest and improve.

Don't forget that you can do a few solo runs. It's not the same but It'll help you get an overall feeling of how the game is shaping and anything that's not working will stand out anyway.

Thats so cool to hear your family and friends are having a blast (pun intended) with your game system.

May try to incorporate storylines or levels from the first 3 games. Or from the Zero History or from Mega Man Legend. Bringing back levels in a asymetric feel other than platform would really get the players who they are trying to portray in your game.

I to created a fan fiction Mega Man series. Tons of new bosses, equipment weapons and characters. Even a new Mega Man character and Doctor Villian. This was back in 93.

If you want, I could send you my robot villians for your game seeing that some one else loves Mega Man as much as I do. I am not going back on that game design any time soon even though I have tons of info on my fan fiction. If you want to get some of the monsters and see where they would fit in your game, feel free to message me.

Long live Mega Man now called Mighty NO.9

Stormy