*Sigh* Well if we must.... [RSM]RIGHTYOUHORRIBLELOT! STOPPLAYINGSILLYBUGGERSTHISINSTANT! It may have begun as as a humourous skit on comicbook organisational...
... Look at the excellent TV series "Ultraviolet" for another example. The department didn't seem to have a name of it's own and they called their targets...
I use in my online game Dept M (for Meta) Based on ideas from Joel who runs The Exec game (nods to him) we are trying to create a "REAL WORLD" enviroment for...
It has been some time since I last got to play GH, but wasn't the 2 power roll requirement for the Magic and Psionic power apply only to the first selection...
Exactly. Colin Turvey <colinfit20@...> wrote:It has been some time since I last got to play GH, but wasn't the 2 power roll requirement for the Magic...
I've always considered it like that H ... From: Colin Turvey To: golden-heroes@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:25 PM Subject: Re:...
I've been thinking: one thing that SqUK/GH doesn't have are character weaknesses. You know the kind of thing: being Big, Green and Dumb, Growing Fur on a Full...
... Because, for the most part, it's not a "rules" call. It's colour. It's look'n'feel. Most games with "weakness" either require you to take a minimum amount ...
"Officially" it was in GH in the rationalisation setion and still hinted at in SqUK. eg. Shadwoguard cannot trelpeort when there are no shadows and recovers...
... Sure. But there are already rules that penalise characters for looking nonhuman. In other words, the matter is half-heartedly and incompletely addressed, ...
probably because the powers themselves are a bit limiting and not up to that level. David McMahon dmcmahon@... Character is doing the right thing when...
... I have always found that my players think up their own weaknesses, without needing or expecting any tangible reward. For example, most of the characters in...
... It's also a perfect example of a "disadvantage" that isn't, since leaving corpses lying around tends to attract attention! :) More seriously, this is like...
... I've been thinking about this a bit more, and I don't think it's entirely satisfactory. It is, to be frank, a bit judgemental. In theory, anyone ought to...
Champions - I've always said it's an excellent piece of work and one I personally couldn't've been involved in writing - it's just too damned clever for me. ...
I think that points systems pretty much force you to 'program' the character for the start, as Alan puts it. I wouldn't blame the GM for all the players taking...
... Well... Champions is off-topic, but skill based characters like Punisher are very expensive in that system. And "a guy in a suit" is toast once he gets out...
... Personally this never bothered me. Of course I tried to play with people with at least a little bit of maturity, but my own characters were seldom pillars...
... Yes I can see how that does sound a bit judgemental. But I wasn't trying to make a judgement on the relative worth of different playing styles, just to...
I would echo David's comments and add some more. Role Playing is taken seriously and not-seriously at the same time by the same people. To explain - in one D&D...
... The core elements of the system -- character generation and character improvement -- list really basic (archetypal?) powers and you'll have to *think* if...
Actually, WE'RE the wierdos. Serious role-players ("I am in the middle of slyaying a dragon") often either look down the nose at Superhero role-players or find...
Conpulsion - www.conpulsion.org is Edinburgh's RPG Convention. I can give you contact info for the organiser etc if you want as it's still "under construction"...
... bash... That reminds me... I've been thinking about writing some Batman-style "mystery" scenarios. SqUK seems to be a fairly good system for these, since ...
... Which type? Chief-Man-of-the-Bats? Batman of the 40s where every good was called knuckles? Demon of Gothos Mansion? ... That, and the average roleplayer...
Rather than feeding them and eventually force-feeding them the clues. Or relying on campaign ratings. I prefer the capsule method. That is divide up the clues...
... I'm not saying you have them find a note pinned to the wall at every crime scene with "The butler did it" ... Detective Points, used as a percentage chance...
Ah, Innsmouthstoke. My kind of town. Just a few miles from Reading, Newbury and Winchester. ;-) pelorus@... wrote:(especially if they are fighting the...
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