Killer Shrike Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Re: [Review] Teen Champions Personally, I have yet to really see a purpose to the subgenre books. I mean, people that are interested in a subgenre sufficiently to run it are probably already sufficiently familiar with it and have source material in mind that they plan to emulate. I would far rather see DoJ's resources put towards producing books that are more generally useful. Maybe thats just me though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchpad Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Re: [Review] Teen Champions Teen Champions runs into the problem that the other sub-genre books (Galatic Champions and DC:TAS) ran into really, they're far too short to actually cover the genre's completely. The only way to do so in the shorter format (~128 pages) is to completely remove the character writeups, IMO at least. I can't agree with this ... if the books were formatted differently, I think there'd be plenty of room for the various concepts behind Teen heroes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theron Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: [Review] Teen Champions Personally, I have yet to really see a purpose to the subgenre books. I mean, people that are interested in a subgenre sufficiently to run it are probably already sufficiently familiar with it and have source material in mind that they plan to emulate. I would far rather see DoJ's resources put towards producing books that are more generally useful. Maybe thats just me though. No, I'm the same way. DC: TAS was a real disappointment to me until I realized that having run a number of "animated-style" campaigns over the past decade, my standards were too high and things that might be useful information to a newcomer to the gaming style were old-hat to me. After that, my only disappointment was in thinking I'd needed it in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: [Review] Teen Champions No, I'm the same way. DC: TAS was a real disappointment to me until I realized that having run a number of "animated-style" campaigns over the past decade, my standards were too high and things that might be useful information to a newcomer to the gaming style were old-hat to me. After that, my only disappointment was in thinking I'd needed it in the first place. I think you have hit the nail on the head. TC is pretty solid within a narrow scope. Which is what a sub-genre book is for. I didn't need most of the book, but Chapter One was great as a source of ideas and perspective. It gave me other ways of looking at issues in a Teen game. While I probably won't use the rest of the book directly, I still find it useful to spark ideas and view things form a different angle. While I am a from supporter of complete adventure modules, I also don't expect genre and sub-genre books to be more that guides. Am I disappointed that it aimed at the version of TC it did instead I my personal choice if Anime based TC. Yes. Is it the books fault? Not in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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