Kap

Re: So how did you guys learn the system? Bought a beat-up used copy of 2nd edition Champions for two or three dollars after skimming through it to see what it had to offer. What pulled me in was it was the only superhero game that had a mechanic for PCs burning themselves out by overexerting themselves (END costs) and the BODY/STUN mechanic to mimic how superheroes in comics get knocked out all the time but not killed. I only used Hero System for super heroes. Despite its billing and what others say, I think it works best for that genre and prefer other games for other genres. I still have friends who don't really "get" the system, though, but in the course of a game they get by with minimal explanations and memory jogging.

Re: From Superfriends to Watchmen: The Extremes of Superheroes Or just as easily be minimized as "Idiot Gets Self Killed Playing Super Hero, Film at Eleven." Might get a mention in "News of the Weird" and not much else, depending on what else is happening that week, kind of like how Farrah Fawcett's death was overshadowed by Michael Jackson dying the same day.

Re: From Superfriends to Watchmen: The Extremes of Superheroes No, because in a realistic setting Bruce Wayne would never become Batman in the 1st place. It would be some deluded kid who read too many comic books, thus the B2 placing for the small news item.

Re: From Superfriends to Watchmen: The Extremes of Superheroes As for that, I get enough in real life. Superheroes are an inherently unrealistic genre so I never understoood attempts to make their comic books and games "realistic." In reality, Batman would be shot dead the first time he tried to take on a gang of thugs and we'd have a small news item on page B2 about it.

Re: From Superfriends to Watchmen: The Extremes of Superheroes That Spider-Man just might catch on.

Re: Second Best Game System ? What was the mechanic for "Superbabes" like?

Re: Hero System Sixth Edition Concise I just use 5th edition (not the revised edition) and none of the extra books to run games...all the rules I need are already there. The only genre book I have is the Champions one by Aaron Alston but I don't really need it, I just enjoyed reading it and some of the ideas were neat. The other genre books don't appeal to me and the settings/enemies/heroes/vehicles/bases/etc. books I don't care about as I only use homemade settings and characters. I would have been more interested in 6th edition if it didn't look like they wanted me to buy 2 books to do what I'm already doing with 1.

Re: Hero System Sixth Edition Concise I really like points #2, 3, and 6.

Re: From Superfriends to Watchmen: The Extremes of Superheroes Batman since the '90s from everything I've seen.

Re: Second Best Game System ? Anyone have any experience with the Cortex system? The reviews I found didn't really give me game-mechanics details, they were like "so much fun!" or "lame!" Not very useful.

Re: From Superfriends to Watchmen: The Extremes of Superheroes The Super Friends would have the good judgment not to make that kind of mistake.

Re: From Superfriends to Watchmen: The Extremes of Superheroes The HUAC and Joseph McCarthy had nothing to do with the Comics Code Authority. Do you mean the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency? "Hogan's Heroes" was set in a P.O.W. camp, not a concentration camp, in case you've never seen it. It was basically a sitcom ripoff of the film "Stalag 13."

Re: Fictional cities

Re: Superbabes to Champions... character sheets needed. I'm amazed there was such a game.

Re: Spreadsheet for balancing SPD, CV and AP strength of attacks Nice job.

Re: From Superfriends to Watchmen: The Extremes of Superheroes I don't think the protagonists of Watchmen were presented as heroes. They were just as big creeps as the villains they fought. Unfortunately Marvel and D.C. decided that all their mainstream superheroes should be remade in the mold of Watchmen, so we've had a couple of decades now of creeps passing themselves off as superheroes. I'm still waiting for the pendulum to swing back. Give me the Super Friends (or any season of Lynda Carter Wonder Woman) any day! --Kap

Re: Second Best Game System ? Anybody know anything about the game mechanics for that system? The Captain America character sheet doesn't tell me much. I see different-sided dice for different abilities, but have no idea what that means in the game. Info I could find on the web site was sparse. --Kap

Re: Golden Age Comics on DVD...The Big Red Cheese! I have these, but they aren't PDFs (unless they changed since when I bought them). I forget the name of the format they're in, but it basically displays them as comic book pages. It's a great bargain as you get almost the complete series. There are a few missing issues here and there. You can also get near-complete runs of Quality Comics (Plastic Man, Phantom Lady, the Ray, Doll Man), Fox Comics (Blue Beetle), and other publishers that went kaput in the '40s and '50s. --Kap

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I thought it was the 2nd most boring movie...

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Never seen the new Star Wars movies. Disdain all Star Trek without William Shatner. Never seen a Terminator film. Never seen Avatar. Never seen Robocop. Never seen Doctor Who. Disdain all Batman without Adam West. If Dirk Benedict isn't in it, it's not Battlestar Galactica. Never seen Babylon 5. No interest in Japanese cartoons or comic books. No fetish for Asian girls. Don't believe Frank Miller's Daredevil or Batman were any good. Never liked the X-men comic book. Note sure whether I actually qualify as a geek, though. --Kap

Re: snow board Is he the Canadian Silver Surfer?

Re: Robocop vs Terminator Whichever one you like best, because you like him best! Just like when the Hulk regularly beats the stuffing out of Thor in my mind.

Re: The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! That's pretty neat that you two are now in contact thanks to the power of the Internet.

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Re: Second Best Game System ? On their site (and on Amazon) they're taking pre-orders but I didn't see any information about what the game is like or how it works.