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City of Heroes Champion Server Olympics

That's just... awesome. Seriously. Would that the actual CoH devs came up with ideas this good.

Posted by Doyce at 11:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

The Next Generation
Biotechnology May Make Superhero Fantasy a Reality

Just a random link. No thought behind it.

Posted by Doyce at 2:30 PM | Permalink

I am SO SORRY I missed this game.

Posted by Doyce at 8:43 AM | Permalink

So we started playing the Justice Squad campaign this weekend. Lots of fun. Here's my personal good/bad/ugly list.

Good
- I've never been in a game GM'd by Dave, whom I've heard only good things of. No surprise, his style is different than mine, but great fun for everyone, and I always enjoy watching other people work and taking mental notes.
- Supers. It's just fun. Maybe it's not Star Wars, but I'm not PLAYING Star Wars, am I? One of the really long-running and fun games I played in in college was a Champions supers game, and I just love the feel of calculating knockback on a hex map. Whee.
- Rules. I'm pissy about BESM most of the time, but I worked my ass off on figuring out a workable version until SAS (supers from goo) comes out, and it seems to be working.

Bad
- I can't min/max a character they way I could in Champions (nor to I want to anymore), but I know the rules better than probably anyone else playing (for now). While the characters themselves are all very cool concepts and built on the same points, there was a certain feeling disparity between them, simply because of design efficiency. This isn't to say we don't all have a few points 'wasted' on things like Painting or Horseback riding, but after the play-test and redesign, I felt like the character's I designed were a little overwhelming.

(Offside of this: I'm also helping Dave by statting out some bad guy NPC's -- so I guess I'll reap what I've sown in the long run.)

All in all, really fun though, and I'm looking forward to the next installment a great deal.

Posted by Doyce at 11:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

I've been putting all my spare game time into design comments/feedback/research for Dave's supers game, coming soon.

Eventually, I'll put all that goodness up here, somewhere, and link to his game, but right now I'm too dang-blasted tired.

Posted by Doyce at 5:40 PM | Permalink