Posts made by Lithium

@kairos said in Interest check: pure OC superhero game:

IMO, the potential pitfall of an OC world is the amount of explaining staff have to do for people to get even a halfway decent gasp of it and even then they're probably still going to do things that are iffy-to-gamebreaking without meaning to because their conception of the setting is different to Staffs without a lot of active policing.

And while that's true of Earth or Earth Analogue settings to a degree, at least you can expect people to be familiar with the basic rules and history of the world. And if they're not, there's always google.

This is, of course, not to say 'don't do it'. Just 'doing it is going to be a LOT more work'.

Not necessarily. You can have an OC game set in an already established world if you really wanted to. Something happened, all the established heroes had to lose their powers/die in order to defeat it. Now a new generation is rising up, etc.

Arx go boom?

@vulgarkitten said in What is your turning point?:

@lithium said in What is your turning point?:

For me it comes down to a simple thing:

Is the RP Enjoyable or is it not.

If the RP has become consistently not-enjoyable then it is not worth my time. I play these games to have fun.

Note: Enjoyable RP does not always mean enjoyable to the character.

As per the TS thing?

It would depend on how it was mentioned OOCly for me. Sometimes people have different needs and desires, but it doesn't mean that they are pressuring you, they are just trying to get things on the same page.

Or they could be pressuring you.

I dunno your situation.

We were talking about someone getting cockblocked in game and the player made the comment: "Mmmm. Speaking of lack of cock lately."

Yeah ok, I can understand being upset by that for sure.

@packrat I actually use Dragons as mobile snipers.

For me it comes down to a simple thing:

Is the RP Enjoyable or is it not.

If the RP has become consistently not-enjoyable then it is not worth my time. I play these games to have fun.

Note: Enjoyable RP does not always mean enjoyable to the character.

As per the TS thing?

It would depend on how it was mentioned OOCly for me. Sometimes people have different needs and desires, but it doesn't mean that they are pressuring you, they are just trying to get things on the same page.

Or they could be pressuring you.

I dunno your situation.

@thenomain That depends on how many mechs you have active, how fast you upgrade stuff, and how many pilots you've got. I need 8 pilots, I get wounded pilots all the time, mechs get smacked and need repaired. I am running ragged edge but damn my Argo is fly.

@kay said in Interest check: pure OC superhero game:

@thatguythere @Lithium - I'm looking specifically at this one https://greenroninstore.com/products/icons-superpowered-roleplaying-the-assembled-edition since one of my friends brought it up as a promising alternative. I'm not familiar with it at all, but it sounds like you are both familiar with it. Do you think it would work well for a MU*?

Yeah that's the one I was thinking of that is lower powered. I almost used it for a project I was working on, it was a good system that I think would be ok with a few tweaks.

@thatguythere Oh that Icons, that one has pretty high power levels too, I was thinking of one of the other systems I guess... there are so many now!

@kay ICONS is actually ok. It's kind of interesting and I like the way it comes together. It is a lower power level type of system which is fine for all OC's honestly.

@lotherio I appreciate that information a lot.

Thank you very much.

I have modified his stats some. Hopefully he lives to get to where he is more nimble and his wife can get him to improve his appearance!

Yeah I was clearing 2 skulls pretty easily and this was a 2 skull mission supposedly. Oof. I like having the Jenner cuz it can go stomp the trucks but geesh.

@lotherio Ok so I went with dex 9 and con 10... sounds like I might want to just sacrifice some app and boost his con...

Alright this is good to know, so I should def push size if I am going for the 'Big foreign brute' type

@ixokai said in Valorous Dominion:

I didn't really get the impression that 12 represented "average".

That's what their wiki says, 12 is average.

@roz That's a little better at least, as that represents that 8 is more the baseline average rather than statistical average. Which is very helpful to thinking of character in that way.

@pyrephox It is really hard to think 'heroic arthurian style character' when the system is that restrictive. For example:

To be big (Size 14) and strong (Strength 14) I have to be clutzy (10 Dex) and have a weak consitution (10 constitution) or be ugly as hell (8 Appearance).

It's not about being all the things at the same time.

@pyrephox I just would like to be big and strong without being a clutz and ugly as sin.

Ok, going through chargen and there is some serious issues with this system. There are 5 stats. 4 of them tie directly into combat stuff, and the last stat is 'appearance'. You get 60 points, and the average is 12. Which means if you want to be remarkable in any way, something else has to suck... or you just be bland average person with 12's in everything.

There is balance, and then there is to much rigidity.

This system is /rigid/.

@jaded The one with the ammo dumps you have to guard and there is turrets and 8 mechs of varrying sizes from heavy to light and you have to capture the ammo for the side you're fighting for.

I am running two shadow hawks, a trebuchet, and a jenner for it because I need the speed to make sure the ammo trucks don't get away because I like to complete every objective.

I really think I am just severely out tonned in this one and need to get bigger mechs.

@packrat I really need to get back to playing this game! I am having trouble with one of the storyline missions, think I need to backtrack a bit and build up some bigger mechs

I dislike M&M because it is broken and easily abused.