Now... I must get the PnP and return to tabletop gaming. =^_^=

Ahh, writing on a new forum. *polishes post* squeekysqueeky

I'm actually looking forward to the release of the new edition. I bought the 5th Edition of the Heroes system and couldn't even read it. I really hope the new one is easier for those, like me, who haven't ever played it.

Until then, Mutants and Masterminds is still great.

I've been thinking more and more to go out and get Champions. I miss my tabletop gaming but it's been ten years. To say I am rusty would probably be an understatement.

The pnp game still has an active fanbase and its own forums over at http://www.herogames.com/

Steve Long and the Defenders of Justice crew have been excellent developers of the Hero Game system over the last few years with a plethora of titles both in the Champions genre and other settings.

M&M was definitely a nice read, had a little bit of a hard time with the system having come from others. (D&D, AD&D, Palladium, GURPS, WoD/et al, heck even rolemaster back in the day) My group and I saw Champions and then blinked at the 86D6 on one sheet and gave it a pass. Nowadays I don't really care about system as much as story, so I'll probably have to give it a looksee now that I've hooked up with another gaming group. They're DnD buffs, I prefer superhero genre, but I can work on them and get them to change. >:)

86d6! That's extreme by any measure. I won't argue that you'll need a dozen or so d6 for some attacks, but that's twink city.

EGADS!

What was that? Dark Phoenix eating a sun?;)

Seriously 12d6 is normally as high as you go in early campaigns, 16 in late and *maybe* 20d6 for epic level campaigns. But the kicker is d6 is pretty much all you need, no other polygons, so you can always scavenge from games of monopoly etc ;).

Champions PnP is based on the HERO system which is, hands down, the BEST most flexible system I've ever seen for simulating, well, ANYTHING.

Like any new system you have to look at it and wrap your head around the way it works, but it's REALLY elegant and fantastically flexible. HERO system can do ANYTHING. :)

The beauty is the flexibility. Last week we were playing my Stellar Knights campaign. Cosmic power superheroes. 120 Active point VPP, with the campaign eventually going to take us to 200 points in those pools with around 2k point characters. Megascale Area of effect powers, the works.



We cut lose with 20+ d6 attacks. but as we are playing via skype and using dice rollers, its no more problem.

Last night was our Aegis campaign, playing normal guys with real word technology levels hunting down low powered mutamts working for various terrorist groups (we heard rumors of one called Viper).


Two games, vastly different power scales, all 6th edition, all running well. Ah HERO.....

I haven't played a lot of Champions. My little brother has the book and he's run one game or so, and I've made maybe two or three characters. It seems too... complicated. Especially compared with Mutants and Masterminds, which me and my friends have been playing since around the time it came out in 2002.

That being said, I like that they have a forum dedicated to the pnp. If it gets more people into tabletop gaming, all the better.

Well, come to think of it, this was shown to us by the guy who also in WoD had a werewolf/vampire/mummy/mage and we of course commented "Must be a halfelfhalforcdragonkinhumanhalflingdwarf... .. ." Probably not the best of introductions, but in the case of the champions, it wasn't just him so we thought it was probably legit that time. C'est la vie!

ps This same guy was arrested some years later for robbing a bank... .. .

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With a sword.

Jay, if you're out there, that's one of my most amusing stories from back in the day, thankyou for the laughs twinkmeister. =^_^=