It's free-wheeling, it's fun and it seems more than a little biased toward the player-characters. Frankly, once we are used to the dice pools concept, and your GM gets a cup to separate the Doom Pool dice, this is going to be at least as much of a blast as Champions. However, it's going to be hard to take a heavy-hitter like Dr. Doom, let alone ( Read more... )

Plot points are nothing new. I recall a game based on Victory Games' James Bond offering that used them twenty-some years ago. TORG called them "possibilities." It is no surprise that a game from Margaret Weis Productions would use them: Cortex has had them from the first product ( Read more... )

Call them fumbles or botches or whatever. Games that have a mechanic for those times when things don't go smoothly are fun. Today your GM looks at what happens in Marvel Heroic Roleplaying when dice come up showing a 1 ( Read more... )

Your GM is excited to be on a new learning curve, this time with the new Marvel Heroic Roleplaying system. By sharing these details with you readers, I hope to improve everybody's game. The next few entries will focus on mechanics, so things may seem a bit dry in here ( Read more... )

In the previous entry, I broached the subject of taking up the reins as GM again. Bryan has since made his preference clear: Monday or not at all. That suits me fine ( Read more... )

Last week, during one of our smoke breaks, Bryan raised the recurring question of your GM returning to active duty. He is, after all, running two games in which I am playing and has told me of a third. That is certainly a full load and I sympathize. Furthermore, I am always willing to listen to popular demand and I have the proverbial ton of ( Read more... )

At the suggestion of my friend, I pulled out my trusty deck and did two readings for myself. I am reminded of Benjamin Franklin's maxim regarding acting as one's own attorney. The cards were not inclined to be straightforward, or else your GM is too close to hear them clearly ( Read more... )

Today's heading is the alternative title to Jerry Jeff Walker's "The Continuing Story of a Classic Bummer." That seems to sum up almost all of my life at present. It seems like one of those old good-news-bad-news jokes. Like the one where the avid golfer finds out there are great links in heaven, but he has a tee-time the next Tuesday... Only ( Read more... )

Apparently as part of their ongoing refinement of Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, Margaret Weis Productions has published an eleven-page supplement aimed at randomly generating our own characters. It's a dice-based random system, which could end up with some very unbalanced characters, but it's more than they had at first.

I was on my way to Metro to check my "Not a Winning Ticket" tickets and to buy entrees for dinner tonight and tomorrow when I ran into Wren and Amanda, who were out shopping unsupervised. (If you don't get the inside joke, it's not mine to explain ( Read more... )