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The kickstarter is live:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/63 ... s-in-peril

I dont like the superhero genre myself, but it may be interesting for those who do.

silva wrote:I dont like the superhero genre myself, but it may be interesting for those who do.

No it wouldn't because it will be a shit hack of a shit ruleset that tries as hard as possible to not actually be any rules at all.

In before they give an explicit example in the book of a 7-9 in your attempt to kill a minion resulting in four more minions showing up just as you finish off that one.

The KS looks like something for playing low-grade capes like the eternally jinxed Daredevil and Spider-Man, but I don't see it handling anything of Avengers' league and up.

Call it "intuition."

Kaelik wrote:

silva wrote:I dont like the superhero genre myself, but it may be interesting for those who do.

No it wouldn't because it will be a shit hack of a shit ruleset that tries as hard as possible to not actually be any rules at all.

In before they give an explicit example in the book of a 7-9 in your attempt to kill a minion resulting in four more minions showing up just as you finish off that one.

When you roll 7-9, a mook attacks Aunt May, and you have to fail at what you're doing to go save her.

Thats actually a cool half-success option, Sakuya. Theres a nice "ugly choice" involved.

You would give a nice Apoc World MC.

Sakuya Izayoi wrote:When you roll 7-9, a mook attacks Aunt May, and you have to fail at what you're doing to go save her.

In all fairness, having to stop whatever you're doing to deal with collateral damage and prevent casualties is the bread and butter of mid-to-top leagues superhero fights.

Still, this hack would have to incorporate "Yes, AND" (as opposed to "yes, but") as well as many player-empowering, death-defying, and realism-go-home tools for the game to feel like superhero emulation and not some Fiasco: Capes and Tights Edition.

Dogbert wrote:

Sakuya Izayoi wrote:When you roll 7-9, a mook attacks Aunt May, and you have to fail at what you're doing to go save her.

In all fairness, having to stop whatever you're doing to deal with collateral damage and prevent casualties is the bread and butter of mid-to-top leagues superhero fights.

Still, this hack would have to incorporate "Yes, AND" (as opposed to "yes, but") as well as many player-empowering, death-defying, and realism-go-home tools for the game to feel like superhero emulation and not some Fiasco: Capes and Tights Edition.

I think the point is that 7-9 is supposed to be a success with complication, but literally "your mom dies" is so fucking bad that no one will ever choose that, so instead 7-9 becomes failure.

Dogbert wrote:The KS looks like something for playing low-grade capes like the eternally jinxed Daredevil and Spider-Man, but I don't see it handling anything of Avengers' league and up.

Call it "intuition."

I agree.
The whole thing about your mom( or bonds wasn't it?) dying on a 7-9 is way more in line with what you describe.

It also reminds me of "Dead parents" being the standard adventure background. So I wonder is it lowby powers only. Teleportatin and superspeed could go a long way to fix narrative problems, well at least I'd think so.

I don't usually follow Kickstarter stuff, but I know some of you might. How do these "(insert game system) heartbreakers" do on there? Successful?

Hit or miss. Fake-White Wolf does fine, and well known names do fine (see: Monte Cook).

"Powers Only Limited By Your Creativity And Imagination" seems to be code for "Bullshit Up Whatever The Hell Your MC Lets You Get Away With".