Posts made by Lithium

I just want plots where there is meaning and purpose behind them. Where the players actually affect the game world in lasting ways.

Otherwise, it's just monster of the week nonsense.

I like it, don't like the look of the new klingons, but otherwise, it's interesting.

If you have a good 6 hours, Talisman (if you have a couple expansions, main game prolly take less).

If you have less, Frag.

Avalon is good if you like card games. If the personality is right, Cards Against Humanity can be fun too.

@Insomnia I was able to get mine instantly, but I also followed link from my e-mail cuz I hadn't seen the posting here yet.

Worth it.

I am curious as to how it is post apocalyptic, what was the apocalypse, how does it affect the world, and in what ways? Are vampires and other supernaturals openly known or is there still a Masquerade?

@Auspice In that case, just try getting a generic personal loan for about 3 grand, you can get a solid car for 2 to 3 grand that shouldn't require a ton of additional stuff in it just to last... problem is the interest is through the roof on those unfortunately.

@Auspice That's what I meant. You can get a beater for round the town stuff for between 500 to 1000$. Other thing you can do, is try to get a personal loan and use the money from that. They'll give anyone a loan when it's at 39% interest rate...

@Auspice Used vehicle.

You can get a solid round the town beater for a fair price rather than trying to do anything from a dealer. Craigslist. local newspaper classifieds, etc.

Give that a shot.

Certain vehicles like Honda Civics, Toyota Camry's, hell even a Ford Focus are still more than viable at 100,000 miles so long as they had the oil changed regularly. Sure might need shocks and strucks soon, but thats something you can build towards.

They also tend to get great gas mileage too.

Just a thought.

150 XP is a metric ton of xp in nWoD (at least in 2e). I would probably suggest capping it much lower than that. Even with a paltry 50 XP it's possible with certain builds to get into the high teens for defenses and low to mid 20's for offense. That's without the plethora of questionable if not outright broken merits that exist in vampire.

My biggest beef with FS3 has been what people have forced it to do. It felt really clunky on the few games I tried to play that had it.

I've been meaning to try BSU but just haven't had the time of late between my own projects and the little RP I do get to do.

@Pondscum That is awesome lol. I love it.

@ThatGuyThere Which made Green much cheaper, which was also a motivating factor.

@Ganymede I agree that the offending bits should be removed.

@Runescryer doesn't believe in addressing a known problem until it becomes a problem for him in the hopes it never becomes a problem.

Go figure.

@Shaggy This isn't precisely true. It is Hero vs Villain, sure, when someone is running a villain. As soon as there is nothing to do, it'll inevitably come down to 'spar' rp or the other usual suspects.

PvP will be a thing, just cuz personalities will clash and eventually it'll come down to dice.

At least, it has on every super hero game I've seen that uses an actual system.

@ThatGuyThere said in New Superhero Game Looking for Staff/Feedback:

I understand what you are saying from a thematic point of view but that does not jibe at all with my experience in mushes with mechanical systems.
Granted that is limited to WoD and Star Wars games but I have most often seen people led with their biggest gun first.
Now is it in theme for Spidey to go all out versus a jewelry thief, not of course not it is a frequent thing in the comics of Spidey either mentioning or thinking how much he has to hold back against normal humans. However if there is no significant mechanical drawback for doing it I think we would see it in game more often than not. Especially since this is an OC game so you would not have Spidey, you would have Alt-Spidey and it would be easy enough to bang out a personality and background where you would have similar powers and no compunction against using them on over matched foes.
If you are going to house rule it when/if it becomes a problem you should likely house rule it to prevent it from becoming a problem.
Also are Advantages intended to be an occasional boost? the ones with trade offs such as All out attack, defensive attack etc have nothing written into them that limits their use.

^^^ This.

There is nothing stopping someone from writing a character that just goes all out, all the time, because they do not care, or think they are invincible, or because they take pleasure in just smashing things/people.

A comic book has the advantage of being written by one person, generally, and the store is the important bit. On a Game that everyone thinks they are writing their own story, and that they are the protagonist and nobody else is, then it becomes problematic very quickly.

I am also somewhat concerned by the statement of /not/ seeing people break things in WoD? People break things in WoD /all the time/.

They pick abusive merit/power combo's, they use them every fight they can get away with it, they steal the show because they can, and because the rules allow them to.

Given that M&M has this thing where you can't even /kill/ someone accidentally, there is absolutely zero draw back to using Power Attack all the time, unless you are facing something that can hurt you /and/ your defense would actually make a difference (A very very rare occasion in M&M in my experience).

@Runescryer Annnd now I don't understand why you wouldn't just fix the problem to begin with.

You say you are looking into Afflictions, why not look into other things?

Any time you have a way things can be exploited, someone will exploit it. It's human nature.

But... your game, your choice. Just seems silly not to head off a problem before it becomes a problem.