What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?
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@Colette It sounds like UH is still up, and they would like to start over. I’m not sure if the reputation is too tarnished or not, but they had this post up on the site, which only has a few people on but there’s still people logging in according to mudstats.
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Recruiting Mar 26 2026 LevitzRecruiting.
I know it is a lot to ask considering our history.
I want to go all in on helping get us back to being active again.
As I approach retirement, I want to reach out on all the players who had fun here in the past, and get some scenes in!
I will be playing an EFC, and I will be active. Every day. Let’s get out there and recruit. Bring some people back. Get some scenes in.
I want to shout out those players who have been playing here. Thank you. Now let’s build on that.
We will also be recuiting staffers. Those who have the same goals we do. To have fun, no drama, RP, and enjoy the genre.
I will ask this. If you are still here and are interested in this mush, then bring your friends back! Quick approvals, OCs welcome (as long as they aren’t massive novel level apps! LOL), and everyone welcome! Everyone. Let us let the past be the past, and move on to the future without previous issues.
Lev
-------------------------------< End +bbread 1/183 >--------------------------------------------------------There was another one after that talked about it closing, then about the headwiz saying he got a lot of feedback not to close, so he wants to bring the place active again. He seems passionate, but I don’t think he’s gotten the support he needs, one way or the other.
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@Purplelamia said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
There was another one after that talked about it closing, then about the headwiz saying he got a lot of feedback not to close
I wonder if this would be more the case of people not wanting to lose the option to play there again, particularly given it doesn’t cost them anything to maintain, but don’t have the time or actual interest to play there. Like a kind of “you can’t close my favourite bar that I haven’t been to in years, what if I want that gallon of ‘Wicked Jizz’ cocktail for five bucks like I had when I was 21?”
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@Colette It’s the same people, doing a variation of the same theme. It is the post-Crisis version of LnL.
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@renaveleigh Same people, yes. Variation on the same theme? Well it is a superheroes mush, yes. Given the name I don’t think we’re making any bones about that.
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@Purplelamia I see their scene logging system broke a year ago and isn’t fixed yet, which maybe should be something they want to look into if they’re starting up again.
Even after the big explosion they kept maybe a third of what was a pretty large player base at the time because there are always going to be some people who see the drama and nope out of paying any attention to it, so don’t care. People who weren’t directly involved in the drama often had no idea what was happening until the big explosion. Without a fair bit of effort to talk to people, find where the receipts had been published and so on, it’s just people on the internet arguing and you have no idea who’s talking crap. Their bigger problem is how dead it looks.
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So for an OC-only/focused (refer to previous post in thread with questions about this…), what system would people use?
- Deviant the Renegades?
- FS3?
- What do the superhero MUSHes use?
- Some other system out there made specifically for superhero-ing?
INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!
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@catzilla Narrative power sets (1-2 paragraph explanation of range and min/max impact) with a baseline skill to roll.
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@renaveleigh said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@Colette It’s the same people, doing a variation of the same theme. It is the post-Crisis version of LnL.
Which is Post-Secret Wars HA, which is Post-Dark Crisis UH, which is post-Ultimate Invasion HMUX, which was post-Unity 2000… whatever, you get the point.
Just the same people doing the same scenes as the same characters with the same people also with the same characters. Over, and over, and over, and over again, like some Rust Cohle nightmare involving tights.
(Fun side note, Rogue’s been able to control her powers for like 15 years in the comics and I don’t think I’ve ever seen somebody do a version other than a teenager who can only touch people in elaborate bondage scenarios. Because Rogue has been played by the same person on almost all of these games.)
Keeping all player actions is always hilarious. During UH’s last activity spike a few years ago, which ground to nothing when staff didn’t want to do apps, it had been seven years since anybody had played Raven. A character so popular you tend to see her open only slightly more often than Batman. Why? Cus nobody wanted to deal with years worth of somebody else’s bullshit that had “grown” a character into something absolutely no one else would ever be interested in dealing with.* I call it the Chaucer Fairchild Principle. (Somebody did pick Raven up on UH, but only after being given permission to rewrite the entire app and throw out all existing “history.”)
*pointless anecdote example, when I was a kid Power Girl opened on BnB and I had her for maybe a day before finding out that like she was engaged to Blue Beetle or something and I’d need to have their relationship end IC, so I just never logged in again
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@helvetica said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@catzilla Narrative power sets (1-2 paragraph explanation of range and min/max impact) with a baseline skill to roll.
the only OC-only game I remember really taking off used Mutants & Masterminds but I didn’t log into anywhere but Shang for a decade so i could be missing dozens of examples
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My first MU* was a very heavily OC-centered X-Men game. I enjoyed it very much. There was a theme, things happened to progress things. People died, there was lasting impact to player choices that wasn’t dictated by ‘well they wouldn’t do this in the comics’.
But this was like-- whew boy, two decades ago almost.
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@Prototart There was Champions MUSH for a real long time, too.
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(Fun side note, Rogue’s been able to control her powers for like 15 years in the comics and I don’t think I’ve ever seen somebody do a version other than a teenager who can only touch people in elaborate bondage scenarios. Because Rogue has been played by the same person on almost all of these games.)
20 on UH, 24 on HAM, 25 on LnL, not a teen. Her sheets on all three of those games make it clear there are no exceptions to the no touching rule, bondage-based or otherwise. Maybe on some of those various sexytimes superhero games that seem to proliferate, but that player isn’t keen on those.
it had been seven years since anybody had played Raven. A character so popular you tend to see her open only slightly more often than Batman… (Somebody did pick Raven up on UH, but only after being given permission to rewrite the entire app and throw out all existing “history.”)
Just 1 year, 7 would be before UH started. After the long-term player of the character dropped during the big early 2020 walk-out, the character was reapproved 1 month later and went through at a quick count 3 other players until there was that May 22 to May 23 gap. Funnily enough Batman had a gap between June 22 and Jan 23, so you’re right, only open slightly more often than Batman.
