Search found 28 matches
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:52 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 23156
If you ask me to choose between getting a million dollars and being punched in the face, you can predict with 100% certainty what the outcome will be, because I am not sufficiently rich that a million dollars would not be a life-changing amount of money, nor so much of a masochist that I would prefe...
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 5:28 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anybody heard of OVERLIGHT or CAVALIERS OF MARS?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2019
Anybody heard of OVERLIGHT or CAVALIERS OF MARS?
I was in my FLGS today, and as I browsed halfheartedly through the RPG shelf (as I always do), I noticed two titles I was not familiar with - OVERLIGHT and CAVALIERS OF MARS. Initial Googling says these are each Kickstartered projects that came out in the last two years or so. OVERLIGHT claims to be...
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 5:04 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
- Replies: 3789
- Views: 502607
So with all the marketing around Glass, I want to remind folks that Unbreakable had a character who didn't know what his weightlifting limits were, despite that character having previously played football competetively at the college level in the US of A. Now, I've never been accused of being athle...
- Tue Jan 01, 2019 7:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Superhero RPG that is not about wizards
- Replies: 152
- Views: 24203
Likewise, the assertions that Hawkeye is a weakling who can't be on an Avengers team with the Vision without throwing verisimilitude out the window is a matter of opinion and writing style. Ehm no, this is actually true and you don't have to dig that far. The thing is, while Hawkeye has some superh...
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 2:36 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Superhero RPG that is not about wizards
- Replies: 152
- Views: 24203
Fuck off. If I'm playing a character who is the power level of The Fucking Hulk, I don't want the MC to tell me that I have a roughly equal chance of losing to some guy who routine struggles with muggers while wearing pajamas with lines drawn on them for a costume. See, this is what keeps confusing...
- Thu Dec 20, 2018 2:38 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Superhero RPG that is not about wizards
- Replies: 152
- Views: 24203
From the original quote above that Frank responded to and you seem to be responding to, I took it differently than you appear to be. I took it to mean that the rules should support at minimum a range with Hawkeye on the bottom and Vision on the top. Obviously it would be bad to make one player suck...
- Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:09 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Superhero RPG that is not about wizards
- Replies: 152
- Views: 24203
Dungeons and Dragons 3rd edition is a pretty great game up until about level 9 or so, but it's basically unplayable at level 16. OK, this is a pretty noncontroversial statement, but that does still give you 9 full levels to play with. In your mind, what are the top and bottom of the scale at which ...
- Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:12 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Superhero RPG that is not about wizards
- Replies: 152
- Views: 24203
Why? Serious question. Why would you think it was a design goal to model Phoenix and Jubilee in the same system? Even if you accept that they are in the same world, why should the game model them both as player characters? ... It is certainly possible to make a game that has both Mr. Freeze and Mag...
- Tue Dec 18, 2018 4:59 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Superhero RPG that is not about wizards
- Replies: 152
- Views: 24203
- Tue Dec 18, 2018 4:53 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Superhero RPG that is not about wizards
- Replies: 152
- Views: 24203
Realizm has nothing to do with it. It's about whether or not you can assume a character has one power when they have been demonstrated to have a different power. And you just can't do that, because none of it works with real physics and therefore you just can't extrapolate freely or deduce anything ...
- Tue Dec 18, 2018 4:09 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Superhero RPG that is not about wizards
- Replies: 152
- Views: 24203
- Tue Dec 18, 2018 2:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Superhero RPG that is not about wizards
- Replies: 152
- Views: 24203
- Tue Dec 18, 2018 2:46 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Superhero RPG that is not about wizards
- Replies: 152
- Views: 24203
But my impression of the Hulk from the movies is that his toughness is, within superhero movie physics, a pretty generic form of toughness, and that a system built with superheroes in mind should key as many environmental hazards as possible off of stats the Hulk already has a lot of. Yes, that's t...
- Tue Dec 18, 2018 12:51 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Superhero RPG that is not about wizards
- Replies: 152
- Views: 24203
- Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Superhero RPG that is not about wizards
- Replies: 152
- Views: 24203
Maybe I'm just not understanding what your actual complaint is. It sounded like you wanted a game where The Hulk just needs one or two powers, and I'm not aware of a game where having those powers is going to let you actually play The Hulk. However, some of your other comments make it seem like you ...
- Sat Dec 15, 2018 8:16 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Superhero RPG that is not about wizards
- Replies: 152
- Views: 24203
- Mon Nov 09, 2015 5:17 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Identity Politics and Representation in Comics
- Replies: 197
- Views: 28712
- Mon Nov 09, 2015 4:20 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Identity Politics and Representation in Comics
- Replies: 197
- Views: 28712
Green Lantern’s got a long history, and a lot of chaacters have used the name. The original, Alan Scott, started out popular enough to get his own series with his own name on it (back in the 40s, you started in something like RADIO COMCS or WHIZ COMICS as one of several features, and only got a book...
- Sat Nov 07, 2015 4:12 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Identity Politics and Representation in Comics
- Replies: 197
- Views: 28712
- Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:07 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Identity Politics and Representation in Comics
- Replies: 197
- Views: 28712
Why has Steve Rogers decided to quit anyway? He can be the new Falcon. That would actually be kind of fun, but also touches on another element of this whole thing that is strange. So when the Falcon first took over as Captain America, Steve was literally a decrepit old man. Like, rail-thin, haggard...
- Fri Nov 06, 2015 2:16 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Identity Politics and Representation in Comics
- Replies: 197
- Views: 28712
I was prepared to put you in a separate camp, but with that little line you don't get to be in some better rational, not crazy racist/sexist camp, you get to be in the same camp as FatR, Darkmaster and Sacrificial Lamb. I don't intend to make a habit of responding to this kind of thing, but I am go...
- Fri Nov 06, 2015 3:50 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Identity Politics and Representation in Comics
- Replies: 197
- Views: 28712
- Thu Nov 05, 2015 11:14 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Identity Politics and Representation in Comics
- Replies: 197
- Views: 28712
So I'm going to talk now about Kamala Khan, the new Ms. Marvel. http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/962/123/6af.jpg Way back in 1967, Marvel Comics created Ms. Marvel as a spin-off distaff counterpart of the Kree superhero Captain Marvel. She was a long-time supporting character in Marv...
- Thu Nov 05, 2015 9:22 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Identity Politics and Representation in Comics
- Replies: 197
- Views: 28712
I've never been able to understand why or how anyone could possibly think that continuity wasn't important, or could be done away with. Continuity is what allows for long-form storytelling. If you're going to write a story in which the previous installments may not have happened, or may not have hap...
- Wed Nov 04, 2015 7:06 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Identity Politics and Representation in Comics
- Replies: 197
- Views: 28712
The important thing, though, is that having successful runs with minority characters proves that minority superheroes can sell comic books. Which means that entirely fresh characters won't be rejected out of hand for being economically nonviable. Large companies are notoriously gun-shy. It would be...