The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
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The Dark and Forbidding Lands of The Necromancer.
 | | 05/18/2005 7:18 AM |
| Hmmm, just had a idea.
Anyone here have the rules AND want to GM a play by email game? I have a copy of the box set and I might be able to get one more copy from my LGS.
I can't GM a game though. Anyone interested? | |
Ghendar - Bringin' the snark!
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Monsoon28
Underboss
2290 Posts
Toronto
| | 05/18/2005 6:45 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Ghendar
Hmmm, just had a idea.
Anyone here have the rules AND want to GM a play by email game? I have a copy of the box set and I might be able to get one more copy from my LGS.
I can't GM a game though. Anyone interested?
Well I think I could be talked into playing...but oh the horror of no maps and cardboard cut out superheroes! | |
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B
Underboss
1189 Posts
| | 05/18/2005 7:00 PM |
| | I generally find play by email WAAAAY too slow for me....and kind of disjointed. | |
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Iconomancer
bassman2972
Underboss
1675 Posts
The ville IN. AKA Hell on earth
| | 05/18/2005 7:27 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by B
I generally find play by email WAAAAY too slow for me....and kind of disjointed.
Yep. I agree. | |
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
11197 Posts
The Dark and Forbidding Lands of The Necromancer.
| | 05/19/2005 7:47 AM |
| | Yeah, you guys are probably right. [:(] | |
Ghendar - Bringin' the snark!
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Cthulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
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Okay McKay
Underboss
1068 Posts
| | 05/19/2005 10:44 AM |
| | I've never done PBEM, but it's got to be way slow and disjointed... I can see why some people like it, though. You can do it at your leisure and it doesn't have the distractions of an in-person game. I do like online games (played some Living Greyhawk online) for that reason. The imagination factor gets cranked up quite a bit since you can't even see the other players. | |
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
11197 Posts
The Dark and Forbidding Lands of The Necromancer.
| | 05/19/2005 11:49 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Okay McKay
The imagination factor gets cranked up quite a bit since you can't even see the other players.
Yeah, I can see where that would help. Instead of picturing your messy unwashed fellow player eating his chinese food on your right who looks decidedly un-superheroic, you can just imagine the character he is playing.
Yes, I game with a messy, sometimes unwashed player. Nice guy though.
[:D] | |
Ghendar - Bringin' the snark!
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Cthulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
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Monsoon28
Underboss
2290 Posts
Toronto
| | 05/19/2005 5:13 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Ghendar
Yeah, I can see where that would help. Instead of picturing your messy unwashed fellow player eating his chinese food on your right who looks decidedly un-superheroic, you can just imagine the character he is playing.
Yes, I game with a messy, sometimes unwashed player. Nice guy though.
[:D]
LoL but does he smell?? I've had one gamer who did, trust me I did my best not to sit next to him, nice guy or not! [)] | |
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
11197 Posts
The Dark and Forbidding Lands of The Necromancer.
| | 05/20/2005 7:09 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Monsoon28
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LoL but does he smell?? I've had one gamer who did, trust me I did my best not to sit next to him, nice guy or not! [)]
Sometimes unfortunately. | |
Ghendar - Bringin' the snark!
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Cthulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
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The Defenestrator
AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 05/20/2005 10:53 AM |
| | Ive never done PBEM, but playbyweb.com offers a pretty good page for playing online games. Im currently in some games there and I find it quite nice that I can post morn and eve and the game goes on. Its a little slow, but still overall, I think a great time. Check it out, they do have a superhero game section. | |
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Captain Harlock
Sergeant
450 Posts
| | 05/20/2005 12:38 PM |
| Personally, I think a weekly or bi-weekly game over a messenger service or on OpenRPG would be a great deal of fun. The only problem is setting up a time everyone can make it.
Dan Cooper | |
Dan Cooper
For there is surely nothing so beautiful than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly half a ton of angry pot roast.
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Hero of the Force
Siddartha of Suburbia
Underboss
2277 Posts
| | 05/20/2005 1:02 PM |
| I've been running a pbem for 24ish weeks.
It can work and it can be a lot of fun, but the problem is maintaining interest and focus. After nearly six months (has it been so long?) my players responses are starting to become sporadic. But it can work. | |
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
11197 Posts
The Dark and Forbidding Lands of The Necromancer.
| | 05/20/2005 1:23 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Captain Harlock
Personally, I think a weekly or bi-weekly game over a messenger service or on OpenRPG would be a great deal of fun. The only problem is setting up a time everyone can make it.
Dan Cooper
I'd be willing to try if anyone else wants to. | |
Ghendar - Bringin' the snark!
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Cthulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
11197 Posts
The Dark and Forbidding Lands of The Necromancer.
| | 05/20/2005 1:24 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Siddartha of Suburbia
But it can work.
Unlike our Maxminis PBEM game right?
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Ghendar - Bringin' the snark!
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Cthulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
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Hero of the Force
Siddartha of Suburbia
Underboss
2277 Posts
| | 05/20/2005 1:35 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Ghendar
quote:
Originally posted by Siddartha of Suburbia
But it can work.
Unlike our Maxminis PBEM game right?
Well, sometimes life makes plans that don't include our hobbies. I think we can all respect why that didn't work out. | |
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Testament
Underboss
1397 Posts
| | 05/21/2005 3:19 AM |
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Some players find it tricky to get into hero games. Their D&D characters aren't usually heroes so to play an actual hero can be hard. You know the type, they always play the rogues or necromaners, never the paladins and clerics.
Sounds kind of like me. I don't usually play the shininghero type, I prefer the flawed hero or the renegade. And it comes through when I run games, the fate of the shining, perfect and noble hero is ALWAYS an early grave. Vile Evil will always defeat Exalted Good, because the nature of EG is to look out for everyone else and not worry about itself, while VE cares ONLY about itself. Or as I once put it, "you'll get further ahead kicking puppies and eating babies than you ever will helping orphans and feeding the poor!"
This is the main reason I can't wait to play Necessary Evil, the BAD GUYS are the last line of defence Earth has from the alien invaders. | |
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Underboss
1189 Posts
| | 05/21/2005 4:09 AM |
| | Necessary evil? What's that? Sounds kind of LXG-ish. | |
Do not go gentle into that good night,
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
11197 Posts
The Dark and Forbidding Lands of The Necromancer.
| | 05/21/2005 8:00 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Siddartha of Suburbia
quote:
Originally posted by Ghendar
quote:
Originally posted by Siddartha of Suburbia
But it can work.
Unlike our Maxminis PBEM game right?
Well, sometimes life makes plans that don't include our hobbies. I think we can all respect why that didn't work out.
Yes, absolutely. | |
Ghendar - Bringin' the snark!
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Cthulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
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Hero of the Force
Siddartha of Suburbia
Underboss
2277 Posts
| | 05/21/2005 8:44 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by B
Necessary evil? What's that? Sounds kind of LXG-ish.
Especially with the "last line of defense from the alien invaders" part.
The second League comic series was based on War of the Worlds | |
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Monsoon28
Underboss
2290 Posts
Toronto
| | 05/21/2005 12:02 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Siddartha of Suburbia
Especially with the "last line of defense from the alien invaders" part.
The second League comic series was based on War of the Worlds
Do you know if a third series was ever planned? First series was much better IMO, but I still enjoyed that whole war of the worlds story-line. | |
"I was sittin' here eatin' my muffin, drinkin' my coffee, replayin' the incident in my head, when I had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity." - Jules Winnfield
Sales/Trades Bad (1): Ironfist Boulderbender
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
11197 Posts
The Dark and Forbidding Lands of The Necromancer.
| | 05/21/2005 1:17 PM |
| | Hey guys, there was the original yellow box set for Marvel Superheroes but wasn't there also an advanced set released at some point? | |
Ghendar - Bringin' the snark!
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Cthulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
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Captain Harlock
Sergeant
450 Posts
| | 05/21/2005 1:43 PM |
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Originally posted by Ghendar
Hey guys, there was the original yellow box set for Marvel Superheroes but wasn't there also an advanced set released at some point?
Yes, there was. More powers and other things. The one thing I did not like about it was they changed the way you increased ranks in things from an all at once thing (say like incredible to amazing) to a point by point increase (incredible (30) to incredibe(31) etc, etc.). May be more realistic but the last thing I look for or the first thing I do not look for in Marvel Super Heroes is realisim.
Dan Cooper
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Dan Cooper
For there is surely nothing so beautiful than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly half a ton of angry pot roast.
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Hero of the Force
Siddartha of Suburbia
Underboss
2277 Posts
| | 05/21/2005 2:04 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Monsoon28
quote:
Originally posted by Siddartha of Suburbia
Especially with the "last line of defense from the alien invaders" part.
The second League comic series was based on War of the Worlds
Do you know if a third series was ever planned? First series was much better IMO, but I still enjoyed that whole war of the worlds story-line.
Moore drew on alot of the research he did on From hell to creat LXG, he had originally spent years on the research, so while i have heard of no plans for a third series, I think it likely he will seek to draw upon that significant research work again. | |
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Grim
Sergeant
482 Posts
| | 05/21/2005 2:38 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Captain Harlock
quote:
Originally posted by Ghendar
Hey guys, there was the original yellow box set for Marvel Superheroes but wasn't there also an advanced set released at some point?
Yes, there was. More powers and other things. The one thing I did not like about it was they changed the way you increased ranks in things from an all at once thing (say like incredible to amazing) to a point by point increase (incredible (30) to incredibe(31) etc, etc.). May be more realistic but the last thing I look for or the first thing I do not look for in Marvel Super Heroes is realisim.
Dan Cooper
This very method of advancing your hero was what I loved about the advanced (blue) box. The old power creep style just didn't reflect the comics to me. Some of the well established heroes like spiderman and Capt. America would have had stats in the unearthly range with all the experience they would have had. And, also, there was no realism anywhere in the box. Not even close. Fun by the mile and off the hook action but no realism. No skin grafts after getting hit by the Human Torch, no cancer after fighting the Radiactive Man, not even broken bones after getting charged by the Rhino. | |
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10787 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 05/21/2005 9:43 PM |
| I ran a pretty sucsessfull League style game about three years ago. I went with the Invaders theme but instead of martians I went with something far worse, The Lords and Ladies. [:D]
quote:
Originally posted by Siddartha of Suburbia
Moore drew on alot of the research he did on From hell to creat LXG, he had originally spent years on the research, so while i have heard of no plans for a third series, I think it likely he will seek to draw upon that significant research work again.
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The Defenestrator
AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 05/21/2005 11:19 PM |
| | Most of the comics I read feature the dark anti-hero types. But then again I pretty much stick to Vertigo titles, anything by Grant Morrison, and other books similar. | |
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Testament
Underboss
1397 Posts
| | 05/22/2005 9:16 PM |
| Necessary Evil is a book for the Savage Worlds system, one of their Savage Settings. The idea of it is that aliens arrive, and invite all the superheroes to a meeting at the equivalent of the Xavier School or the Avenger's Mansion. And blow it up with their alien weaponry, then send down teams to pick off the survivors, tooled up to negate the hero's weaknesses.
Now Earth's being invaded, and the only super-powered beings left to fight them are the villains, the Dr Dooms and the like got hunted down and killed too. The aliens ignored them, because the heroes always pwned them. The party are thus the equivalent of the Injustice League or the Masters of Evil, but without their Lex Luthor, or Ultra-Humanite or Baron Zemo.
I seriously can't wait to play this. I love the Savage Worlds system, despite its lethality, and this just sounds like a hysterically funny setting to go with. At least it'll be funny at first. Time to reread my Thunderbolts comics I think! | |
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Monsoon28
Underboss
2290 Posts
Toronto
| | 05/23/2005 1:49 AM |
| Sounds like an interesting concept, villains are cool too! [)]
Thunderbolt! Man its been years since I read a Tbolt comic! | |
"I was sittin' here eatin' my muffin, drinkin' my coffee, replayin' the incident in my head, when I had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity." - Jules Winnfield
Sales/Trades Bad (1): Ironfist Boulderbender
Trades/Sales completed (8.): Danthl, Dafrca, Garyaxe, qillan_dvra, realmaster, Vandal_Savage, cavedweller, unearthed arcana.
Champion of Gem Dragons, VINDICATED Squire of Duergar Commander, Knight of the Astral Stalker.
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Captain Harlock
Sergeant
450 Posts
| | 05/23/2005 11:09 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Testament
I seriously can't wait to play this. I love the Savage Worlds system, despite its lethality, and this just sounds like a hysterically funny setting to go with. At least it'll be funny at first. Time to reread my Thunderbolts comics I think!
I think you would be better off reading Suicide Squad or Task Force Moriatori (I think thats the name of Marvel's Version of the Suicide Squad).
Dan Cooper | |
Dan Cooper
For there is surely nothing so beautiful than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly half a ton of angry pot roast.
You will all go directly to your respective vahallas, Go directly, do not pass go do not collect two hundred dollars
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
11197 Posts
The Dark and Forbidding Lands of The Necromancer.
| | 05/24/2005 2:28 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Captain Harlock
[quote]I think you would be better off reading Suicide Squad or Task Force Moriatori (I think thats the name of Marvel's Version of the Suicide Squad).
Dan Cooper
Strike Force Moriatori. Part of Jim Shooter's New Universe line.
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Ghendar - Bringin' the snark!
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Cthulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
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Testament
Underboss
1397 Posts
| | 05/24/2005 5:42 PM |
| | Don't know Strike Force Moriatori, but I'm familiar with the Suicide Squad. For the record, I consider the Thunderbolts to have ended at issue 70ish. Before it went carp. | |
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8-Bit Chibi Goths forever!
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The Defenestrator
AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 05/24/2005 5:48 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Testament
Don't know Strike Force Moriatori, but I'm familiar with the Suicide Squad. For the record, I consider the Thunderbolts to have ended at issue 70ish. Before it went carp.
God I love Suicide Squad. I wish they would bring that book back! | |
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Captain Harlock
Sergeant
450 Posts
| | 05/25/2005 1:47 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Ghendar
quote:
Originally posted by Captain Harlock
[quote]I think you would be better off reading Suicide Squad or Task Force Moriatori (I think thats the name of Marvel's Version of the Suicide Squad).
Dan Cooper
Strike Force Moriatori. Part of Jim Shooter's New Universe line.
IIRC, that was a redo of an even earlier series (something in the 70's I think)....though I may be incorrect on this.
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Dan Cooper
For there is surely nothing so beautiful than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly half a ton of angry pot roast.
You will all go directly to your respective vahallas, Go directly, do not pass go do not collect two hundred dollars
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