Your GM started a new Champions game tonight, featuring Crimson Star, Dru and Rolly, three new heroes in Florida's Queen City. The part of starting a new campaign that is always a PITA is not being able to plan anything appropriate to the new characters, but once again I managed to stumble through ( Read more... )

The guidelines for a Standard Superheroic FRED game are as follows: 150 in Disadvantages, 50 per category; Characteristics 10-40, obviously not including STR; SPD 3-10; CV 7-13; DC 6-14; AP 40-80; Skill Points 25-80; Skill Rolls 11-15-; Def/ rDef 20/10. For purposes of this discussion, Perks generally count as Skills, while Talents usually count ( Read more... )

Thanks to one of your GM's readers, a Hero System Sixth Edition game became possible. I think Wren would play anything I brought in except Dragonquest: she was interested when I showed her the printout for the new version of Foxbat, at least. Bryan's reaction, having seen more of the changes, was essentially, "Let's stick with FRED," although ( Read more... )

Some years ago, a long-awaited meeting took place between the Avengers and the Justice League. Superman threw down against Thor. Green Arrow matched skill with Hawkeye. Captain America sparred with Batman. The full rosters of both teams, including members who were dead, joined forces against a villain whose power overwhelmed Galactus. It was ( Read more... )

Someday, there will be a Marvel-based RPG that is actually worth playing. MHR will be joining the shelf of games that had promise but failed to come through. The last word on it is that it's fine for the casual gamer or the beginner who wants the thrill of playing Spiderman or Captain America for a few sessions, but for hard-core gamers like the ( Read more... )

On the way home last night, Jesse informed me that he very likely would be away until late, and would thus miss the next session of MHR. With this in mind, I would like to float a number of options for Bryan and Wren. If Jesse makes it, we'll fit him into whatever we've chosen ( Read more... )

Maybe it's the way the game is weighted. Maybe I'm running it wrong. Maybe (actually, certainly) my dice hate me. The fact is that Bryan, Jesse and Wren cruised through Act One of the introductory "Breakout" storyline last night without taking more than one d10 worth of Stress. I can't provide more details without a spoiler effect, but the ( Read more... )

Players are allowed, even encouraged, to swap out their Milestone lists for ones specific to a published event. If you'd like to know what the Breakout-specific Milestone packages are, I'll be happy to show them to you this evening.

There are three distinct ways for your GM or any other Watcher to form a dice pool in MHR. The simplest is for individual NPCs like Venom. Since NPCs neither earn nor spend PP, the functions thereof fall to dice from the Doom Pool. Where a player would use a plot point, the Watcher removes dice from the Doom Pool to augment rolls ( Read more... )

Your GM found a hole in the MHR rules: what does a character do when he or she lacks one or more relevant traits for dealing with a problem? Sauron, for example, has specialties in medicine, science and technology, but not in combat. In an investigation scene, Black Watchman's powers and specialties seem to offer no help at all. This is very ( Read more... )