What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?
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@Raistlin I don’t know about the systems, FS3 might not be robust enough, it’s numbers always seemed a bit wonky to me. But I can say I would certainly check out an OC type of game like this.
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@Prototart said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@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
I’m not familiar with that system. In my old age, I defer more and more toward not creating unnecessary activity. Nothing more eye-roll inducing than a system that’s complicated where it could have been simple. I’m here to write.
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My go-to system for Superhero games when they show up at my RL tabletop group is Wild Talents. The One Roll Engine does superheroics really well, and the basic resolution mechanic takes only a few minutes to explain.
Over the years I’ve played HERO, Champions, Mutants and Masterminds (1st & 2nd Editions), Godlike, Capes, Aberrant, Scion (yes, I count Scion as a superhero game), and MSH. I feel like having a solid core system is important for a superhero game as you need to know what the baseline for task resolution is before you start throwing superpowers at the narrative, or you end up with everyone operating on their own idea of what the power scale is.
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@Colette said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
20 on UH, 24 on HAM, 25 on LnL, not a teen.
So, given yhat time advances on UH and HAM, two of them used to be teens.
That player isn’t keen on those.
Ruby’s known for two things. One of them is being an emotionally unstable pathological liar, and the other is the number of sexpest she’s Ghislained for.
Just 1 year
I might be off on 7, but it was definitely more than one. I’ll have to check my logs when I get back from the OR, but I know this because I was the person who got permission to ignore all of Eianna’s stuff.
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@Raistlin said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
Modern superhero comics don’t really grab me either, so if I ran a straight canon game, the canon would basically be the 1990s bumped up to modern day, with some tools bolted on to fold in characters who’ve shown up since. And my worry is that would appeal to exactly one person: me.
I would legit kill for a game set in the early 80s that was actually 80s-vibed or one set in the 90s where I can imply Terry Richardson is being creepy to GenX.
A hack of Aberrant 2nd Edition. I’m a big fan of Aberrant 2E. Well, parts of it. I’d gut the whole nova tech section, which I find basically unplayable. But strip it down to the core system and powers and it’s a pretty slick setup.
I love the setting of Aberrant so, so, so much.
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it’s times like these that i miss old threads from defunct boards because dang we had NUMEROUS threads of these games while the drama was happening
she/her | playlist
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@Roz said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
it’s times like these that i miss old threads from defunct boards because dang we had NUMEROUS threads of these games while the drama was happening
Part of me thinks it’s good that we’ve wiped the slate clean, and everyone gets a fresh start, because honestly 2 decades or however long is a long time to be holding grudges, people do grow and change.
But also damn if it isn’t astounding how much some people absolutely haven’t grown or changed.
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@Kestrel said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@Roz said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
it’s times like these that i miss old threads from defunct boards because dang we had NUMEROUS threads of these games while the drama was happening
Part of me thinks it’s good that we’ve wiped the slate clean, and everyone gets a fresh start, because honestly 2 decades or however long is a long time to be holding grudges, people do grow and change.
i don’t think this is really happening, though. people still remember. it’s just that now we don’t have the references to actually point to for accuracy.
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Wild Talents is fun. It certainly embraces the wild part of the title.
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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.
I did A LOT of forum PBP during my 20s-early 30s so this is what I’m used to.
But…
Why did people turn their nose up at the same idea for a Star Wars game?
Maybe this should be a new topic about freeform vs systems or something? I’d be interested in knowing further on the topic in general.
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@catzilla There’s a Star Wars game out now that uses traits. I don’t play there but not because of the system they use. I think it could work very well. You can check them out at https://swdarktimes.com/
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@Raistlin said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@catzilla There’s a Star Wars game out now that uses traits. I don’t play there but not because of the system they use. I think it could work very well. You can check them out at https://swdarktimes.com/
This is exactly the game I was talking about. It was mentioned in that dumpster fire game thread and basically was snubbed by person/people because it DOESN’T have mechanics.
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@catzilla Ah. Well, for what it’s worth, I think it’s totally doable. I think for Star Wars, it might even be beneficial, since most RPG/mechanical systems struggle to balance force users and non-force users.
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This Star Wars game is also run by the person that runs the current game called Age of Heroes - the one that jacked all that code.
https://ageofheroesmush.com/char/Persephone
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So, given yhat time advances on UH and HAM, two of them used to be teens.
No, that was their starting ages on those games. There was no teen Rogue with bondage powers, you’ve just been misinformed.
I might be off on 7, but it was definitely more than one.
You can go to the website, look at the revision history for the sheet. Dropped on 22 may 2022, next approval was 25th may 2023. 1 year and 3 days, during a time where as you observed, characters weren’t being approved much – and even Batman was unplayed for 7 months. You were misinformed again. Maybe you should put less trust into the gossip you’re getting.
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@Colette said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
Rogue with bondage powers
I think you keep confusing what people mean by this. Everyone agrees skin-to-skin contact with Rogue will drain powers. Its just the solution is always ‘put Rogue in a full body bondage-esque catsuit so there’s never skin to be touched’.
Mummy Pun? MUMMY PUN!
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@Jennkryst said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@Colette said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
Rogue with bondage powers
I think you keep confusing what people mean by this. Everyone agrees skin-to-skin contact with Rogue will drain powers. Its just the solution is always ‘put Rogue in a full body bondage-esque catsuit so there’s never skin to be touched’.
Few ever thinks to just put a restraining collar on her during day to day slice of life scenes. Like someone couldn’t make one aesthetically pleasing, or waterproof. People remembering that not only is she able to control her powers, but she isn’t even getting her flying brick power set from Carol Danvers any more either. Going with that is a breath of fresh air.
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@Wuff said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@Jennkryst said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@Colette said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
Rogue with bondage powers
I think you keep confusing what people mean by this. Everyone agrees skin-to-skin contact with Rogue will drain powers. Its just the solution is always ‘put Rogue in a full body bondage-esque catsuit so there’s never skin to be touched’.
Few ever thinks to just put a restraining collar on her during day to day slice of life scenes. Like someone couldn’t make one aesthetically pleasing, or waterproof. People remembering that not only is she able to control her powers, but she isn’t even getting her flying brick power set from Carol Danvers any more either. Going with that is a breath of fresh air.
Well, yeah. You don’t have Danger Bondage Sexy Times if you do it that way!
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@Jennkryst I was being silly with the bondage powers thing.
Out of curiosity, how does this bondage-esque catsuit differ from the catsuit she wears in the comics? Or is this just a dislike of the character?
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@Colette I am pro-Rogue, pro-bondage, pro-catsuit, and pro-sexy-times.
@Prototart was pointing out Rouge-players have traditionally used her powers as an excuse to hyperfixate on fetish/bondage RP that ‘tee-hee, kinky and saves people from dying while touching her’, and occasionally drift into a barely-legal area.
You mistook this to mean these players were giving her Bondage powers.
Also, the difference is spandex vs latex, obvs.
