I ran a campagn a while back where each of the heros could only have 100 points. Made for some real fun with tough scenarios... also, even Foxbat was a major...
... have ... Not with a super-hero campaign I'm not that cruel to my players. My idea of a low powered hero game is 250 pts characters with a DC level of...
well the last lower powered game i ran was a 150pnt base with 50 pnts of disadvatnages + 1 free( code against killing, if i'm going to require you to take a...
... have ... I did something like this when I first started. I had the players make up Skilled Norms. Then I made about a dozen packages of powers costing...
WillyPete and I had a lengthy discussion some time back about character disadvantages and I told him that I had often had trouble coming up with disadvantages...
... Man, were you ever not trying... ... I hate to say I told you so, but... Oh, who am I kidding? I ENJOY saying "I told you so!"... :-> ... nonhuman ... ...
... What, he was a wandering martial artist with an Orientally cool head, no Psychological Limitations could have fit him. About the only Disadvantages I...
... What about Cool Headed (I'm serious)? There's also Honorable, Dislike of ranged combat, Protective of women and children, Will not strike first, a bunch...
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 20:00:15 -0000 willpell55408 writes: {Me:}>> Man, were you ever not trying... ... That's one right there! "Slow to anger", perhaps? ... ...
... That would be one of those things that I tend to think are automatic to most heroes unless they have Berserk or an "Easily angered" limitation. This is by...
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 22:10:15 -0000 willpell55408 ... Of course, and this is exactly the problem you are having... ... Rather a large difference, don't you...
... Does he know what a Televison is? Does he speak English, with native ability? Does he look up at skyscrapers? Yes, yes (not that he'd watch much), speaks...
just because he's a hayseed dosn't automaticly mean that he is a joke charecter,think shang-chi or ironfist. and the villan bounus works fine IF, you design...
... think mostt people have a 'Code against Killing', at a 'Strong', rather than a 'Total' Commitment level. Second, just because some idiot puts something in...
... have ... Well, kind of. I started an online game almost a year ago where the players had to start as competent normals. Then (just before game start) they...
... Whoah! I sense some possible Psych-Lims there - - - maybe 'Doesn't trust anyone'? 10 points? 'Paranoid'? 'Cannot allow self to depend on anyone else'?...
I've been sort of following this thread for a while, and wonder if something isn't being lost sight of. Maybe the guy really doesn't have many disadvantages...
Point squeezing can be a real pain, depending on how your GM handles it. Sometimes, if your GM things any disadvantage you buy should be a REAL disadvantage,...
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:41:24 -0000 willpell55408 writes: <SNIP> ... one of them). ... campaign I wouldn't require automatic >Codes vs. Killing or relatively ...
Good Grief, this is going long! I think everyone needs to realize that people have different ideas of what makes a good game and good superhero/whatever epic....
How do you become a good GM? Get out and play. Run the game. Play in games run by other people, preferably a few games with other people. Advice over the...
thank you bdunn91 for the calm demeanor. i know you mean well willypeat, but the tough-love approach is not working. you get into the subject, get your Irish...
... even with ... hear ... that...."! ... Most of us become 'Good Ref'-s under stress. With me, after two weeks of solo-ing for 7 hours a night at a Denny's,...
Here is a change of topics. I thought I would throw in a character of very questionable makeup to see if anybody would allow her to be used in their campaign....
Hey, if Wolverine can be a hero, so can she. That said, there are changes I would suggest if I were running the campaign. I'd suggest toning the RKA on the...
... handles it. Sometimes, if your GM things any disadvantage you buy should be a REAL disadvantage, it's very hard to come up with enough points while still...
... ... too many active points (for my campaigns at least) and the 1/2 strength near lightning rods is not a significant limitation. It should be 1/2 strength...
