Well if they want something a bit more serious check out the Wild Cards series of books for inspiration. the basic premise is that they are dealing with the...
We were all big fans of the Wild Card series. I evan collected the comics when Epic put them out. We've done the man bomb thing in another campoaign. He was...
... I believe it! Mind you, I have never said that I LIKE D&D... :-> ... It wasn't formally available as a power until 5th edition, I believe... What a given...
I had several TORG like ideas based on other planets rather than earth bound zones. Aliens and Space were two elements represented in 3 of the characters...
... Hmmm ... I haven't tried 5th Edition yet. This is the 2nd black point against pickiing up a copy ... says the person that owns *every* other champions...
... That doesn't work anywhere near as well, though (not that TORG worked really well, mind you...)! Different planets in the same universe aren't going to...
... There ARE reasons why I refer to it as the 'Tome of Vile Darkness'! That's actually one of the LESS annoying features that 5th ed. is plagued by! {You can...
just saying that if the players want something a little more serious you can find a credible threat by looking at the news and saying to yourself "what...
the really depressing thing is that all you need do it go to the library and pick about three newspapers and read the news from around the world to find lots...
yep i know what you mean. now some of the fellows will groan about this but a really good, under used source is the old Adam West BATMAN series. i know, i...
a good friend of mine let me know about this and i thought it might be of interest. CARNAGECON is being held on Nov 5,6,7 at the Lake Morey Inn in Fairlee VT....
<<250 members and going strong.>> And yet this was the first post in a month. :) Anyone want to share bad gaming stories. I remember my first Champions game,...
... Thanks for the welcome. I started playing Champions when it was first published, and havent played for about 10 yrs. Playing City of Heros online...
... Heh, that brings back some memories...... like the Brick who put nearly all his points into STR and superleaped onto a mentalist who was standing on a...
Well if we go modual by modual, My Island of Doc Destory story: We approached by sub, in a raft, no-one could swim. I was a powerd suit guy, you could say...
Hello all, This post refers back to an old thread, but I've only just joined. I have always run a fairly serious and dangerous campaign, and think that this...
We used to run a campaign that was extremely violent in the early 80's and had a lot of character and NPC deaths in it. It was fun for a while but is a lot of ...
... Of course, but I've never suffered from this problem... ... Oh, sure... You can give your Players 75-pt. characters, with no more than 25 pts. in Disads,...
I suppose this is fine (minus the somewhat snarky comments) as far as it goes, but it largely an argument against a style of gaming I didn't advocate for in...
I think it is all up to what the group wants. Like I said we played that style for a while and had fun. You got a new character every couple adventures so you ...
... Sorry... any 'snarkiness' was directed at a style and attitude of play, and NOT at any one person in particular... ... When you mention things like "Call...
... And I was doing it 30 years ago, with D&D (note the lack of the preceding 'A'!)... I was also playing it with a 'rules lite' approach, way back then, and I...
... When I designed the online game, I wanted a longer playtesting period than most MUSHes go through. It was decided we'd play out 1967-1982 and aim for a...
I know that several of the frequent posters to this site are players in the online games that I GM. And in all of those games, I chose to require Normal...
... Not to knock your games, Ron, but I've usually shied away from NCM... It sounds like a nifty idea, but, really, it's a poor game mechanic, and tends to...
I'd be very interested in joining an online campaign. ... Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! [Non-text portions of this...
... was ... a ... diverge ... been ... This can happen in any game. Take D&D for example a Wizard becomes much more useful in situations where the opponent had...
Ditto, just give me the URL and I'll join the game. DenyDenyDeny <rhopkins20001@...> wrote: I'd be very interested in joining an online campaign. ... Do...