The coolest sounding RPG book I’ve heard of in a while

Lucha Libre HERO! I can’t imagine ever getting around to running this but I like the fact that I live in a word where it can exist. (via Ken Hite) [...]
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Golden Age Supers

Yes, we’re back on schedule and playing a golden age supers game using the Hero System (5th edition, of course).  The group is trying to track down some lizard/ mole type people underground. About an hour into the[...]
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Champions – Kugia

   Here we have an anime-style Mystic Ninja, built on a 75-point base – albeit with the one permissable slice of cheese (the attribute aid) to make Mystic Ninja a cut above all the relatively normal people. [...]
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Champions – Afreet

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Lahatiel, Angel of Wrath

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Brancariad – The Star Stone

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Brancariad, The Welcoming Gargoyle

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Jurassic Manor and the Mandate

   When Adrian Maximilian set out to gather his own team of superheroes, he decided to base them out of his family estate. Why not? It was sizeable, private, conveniently close to New York City, and there wasn’t anyo[...]
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Scenario Sequencing: Structuring Campaign Flow

In a previous blog, I’ve written about my Superhero campaign currently facing a big finish (A Grand Conclusion: thinking about a big finish). This post will be a sequel of sorts, because any big finish naturally in[...]
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Ask The GMs: Systematic Systems Choice

How do you choose the right game system? The Ask the GMs questions here at CM never seem to stop, which is great, because they never fail to inspire new discussion topics. This one’s been sitting on the backb[...]
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A Quick Look at Supers Combat

Whenever I’m running a supers campaign, it usually takes a little bit of time for me to adjust to the way things go.  Combat in a supers campaign is a  dynamic affair as the sheer amount of collateral damage and [...]
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Disparity of Power Level in Superhero Games

One interesting issue when designing a superhero roleplaying game is how to handle the vast disparity in power levels between characters considered to be superheroes. If you allow the players to imitate any characters fr[...]
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Answer to 5E HERO Quiz

Ok, it appears that no one is going to catch the problem with 5th Edition Dive for Cover that posed in the last article. Not unexpected, really. I don't think I have many readers who are really into that system.As a said[...]
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HERO 6th Campaign Assembly, Part 2 – Sample Character, Not Togusa

I’ve been doing some fiddling with the HERO 6th character creation software to see if my earlier projections will be sufficient for making characters at par with the source material.  One of my players has already[...]
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HERO 6th Campaign Assembly, Part 1 – The Groundwork

As I posted yesterday, I’ll be laying down some groundwork with regards to the HERO game I’ve been mulling over to test HERO 6th.  Today, we’ll be looking at the campaign limits and character guideline[...]
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HERO 6th Campaign Assembly, Part 1 – The Basics

So… I’ve had a copy of HERO 6th Edition in my hard drive for a while now, but I haven’t really gotten back to studying it.  There’s been some changes from 5th Edition Revised, and I don’t [...]
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A pointer to HERO 6th Edition reviews

I can't bring myself to buy the two books needed to do my own review of 6th edition HERO System. But from reading online, these two reviews at RPGNet hit the high points: Character Creation and Combat and Adventuring.The[...]
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Latest Material Index

   It’s once again time to get the latest material index updated and to transfer the material from the old one to the main index tabs at the top of the page. If you want the very latest material, it may be necessary [...]
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Even More Campaign Ideas

Once in a while, I get odd campaign ideas in my head.  Some might eventually mature to full blown campaigns, while others are left as strange curiosities of the mind, little idea seeds that may yet inspire other GMs to [...]
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Why The Earth?

   The Earth. Hotly desired by dimensional conquerors. Highly magical. Hosting an incredible concentration of super-beings. With immensely powerful psychics. Boasting numerous ultra-genius inventors creating “tec[...]
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The Specter

   Arnold Rohan was a fairly ordinary fellow.    Then he died, which was also pretty unexceptional. Most people do.    Arnold hung around. Still nothing too special.    He did what little he could – impingi[...]
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Champions Online??? Maybe?

Yeah, I’ve tried Champions Online and have called it quits, for now. Now, I’ve grown up with the Hero System and REALLY wanted C:O to be great. As good as it is, it’s short comings outweigh the good. Th[...]
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Champions Offline

In something somewhat related to HERO Games, Champions Online crashed Christmas day and was still down as I went to bed last night.For those who are unaware, Champions Online is a MMO using the HERO Games setting. Sort o[...]
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The Paladin and the Hero of Legend

   He has ridden to ten thousand battles, worn a myriad masks, and fallen a thousand times.    Yet there is always someone to take up the mantle again, to bear the blade, and to ride forth to rescue and defend.    [...]
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Shopping for the 3rd World Gamer #4: HERO System 6th Edition, Basic Rulebook

So far we’ve looked at several quick, rules-medium games which fall neatly in our budget.  But what if the recipient has a taste for more rules-heavier games?    Thankfull, there’s still a way to get arou[...]
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Comments on the State of the ‘Market’

Busy time for me, Christmas is on the way and it's something of a big deal for my family. A lot to do that takes time away from my blog. Insult to injury, the latest expansion for Lord of the Rings Online shipped and tha[...]
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A Grand Conclusion: Thinking about a big finish

I know I’ve written about this before (An Epic Confusion, Or How To Stage A Blockbuster Finish), but I’ve been thinking some more about big finishes to campaigns, prompted by the fact that my superhero campai[...]
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You’d GM it if you could (but probably never will)

Since the 80’s, I’ve always tried to have an alternate game to do for my D&D groups whenever I was feeling a little burnt out, or if a player important to the current scenario was missing. From the late 80’s un[...]
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Tales from the Table: Silva

Back in high school, I encountered one of the best GMs of my day. He ran three games: Paranoia, Hero Fantasy and Champions. Buddy was an amazing GM because he knew the rules inside and out. He reached savant-level knowle[...]
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HERO System Posts Suck, HERO Games sucks more

I was reviewing the traffic to my site over the last few days and noticed a pattern. The HERO System posts draw far less traffic than other subjects. And the actual HERO System builds draw even less (from what I can tell[...]
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Champions

Recently I started playing the MMO Champion Online. Champions Online is based on Champions, Hero Games‘ award winning superhero roleplaying game. Although I enjoy the MMO very much so far, I don’t know anything [...]
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Morrow Project meets THEM!

A post-apocalyptic world without giant radiated ants is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without the jelly.Add in the fact that THEM! was one of my favorite movies of my childhood (and one of the best 50s monster [...]
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“Do You Feel Lucky, Punk?”: A New idea for handling “wild luck” in D&D

For a long time, I’ve been dissatisfied with the way some games handle wild, improbable, luck. D&D, for example, has no luck mechanism per se; only the critical hits subsystem comes close, where if you roll wel[...]
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Group Size – what’s your pref?

In my last post I talked about digging on the full group of six players I currently have. Of course that might change before too long (in the last year I’ve had a total of four new players come and go, and three regula[...]
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Twilight Isles World Laws and Character Creation

   As far as anyone knows, most of these rules extend throughout entire realm of the Twilight Isles – and, presumably throughout Ars’yam Taht’leil (as a few extradimensional visitors have named the world, or [...]
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Disadvantages, Part IV: How the types of disadvantages work with the disadvantage system goals

In my last article, I classified disadvantages into 4 types, and previously to that, a described 2 goals of disadvantage systems. Now I will discuss how each type of disadvantage fits into each goal.If you are thinking o[...]
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Roleplaying Games I’ve Yet to Play (But Desperately Want To)

After the past week of taking a vacation and stressing over two Typhoons that decided to visit the country one after the other, I find myself struggling with something to write about.  I think this is just inertia at wo[...]
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Another Morrow Project Build

Given yesterday's post on the Landmaster, I thought I'd follow up by providing an example character sheet for one of the PC in the Campaign.The team consists of half a Special Forces A-Team plus a couple of scientists. R[...]
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Fantasy Hero then….

Well, I ran our on/ off Fantasy Hero game last week. John D couldn’t make it to GM Golden Age Hero, so I stepped in. We’re playing SOMETHING, dang it! I’m using Hero’s Turakian setting and the gro[...]
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Behold the Landmaster!

Back in 1997, Fox released a movie by the name of Damnation Alley. It's subject was a cross-country run by a small band of survivors through the 'safest' 100 mile wide 'alley' in a post-apocalyptic world.While that was a[...]
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Hero System 6th Edition Review

You know, I was going to write a review of the New Hero System 6th Edition and still may. However, it looks like James Gillen has taken the plunge, bought the PDFs and done a very fine review over at RPG.net.  He sums u[...]
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Disadvantages, Part III: General Classifications

As I mentioned in my previous article, I’m going to classify some general types of disadvantages:1. The negative ability. This sort of disadvantage is something that makes your character statistically worse, the opposi[...]
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My Biggest Mistakes: Magneto’s Maze – My B.A. Felton Moment

There came a time when I had to move out of the city (where my players were), and back to the small town in which I had grown up, for financial reasons. That would spell the end of most campaigns, but I had willing play[...]
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HERO 6th Still on that slow boat from China

According to the Hero Games website, their books didn't make it on the boat on the 10th after all, but is said to have managed it more than a week later.Far as I'm concern, it can stay on that slow boat forever.I wonder [...]
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Disadvantages, Part II: Design of the Champions disadvantage system

In my previous post, I said that there were 2 different goals for disadvantage systems, encouragement and compensation. Now I will go into some more specific analysis and say that Champions, my reference system, is prima[...]
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Demons in my Soup (Elemental Magic)

In the beginning, there were wizards with spellbooks and monsters with special abilities. Then there were superheroes and villains with powers. But I never played in a campaign where there was a mix of traditional fantas[...]
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My Biggest Mistakes: Defying Expectations in the Zenith-3 Campaign

Some expectations are made to be confounded if it’s at all possible. If someone expects a dull and boring campaign, that’s one you don’t want to live up to. If someone expects to get favourable treatme[...]
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Disadvantages, Part I: Overall Purpose

A major game mechanic I've often thought about and analyzed is the disadvantage system. This is a complex subject, so I’ll start with some introductory analysis. The classic disadvantage system is that of Champions/Her[...]
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My Biggest Mistakes: Information Overload in the Zenith-3 Campaign

As you should know by now if you’re a regular visitor here – and with 2 new articles every week, why aren’t you, if you’re not!? – this month’s blog carnival is on the subject of mist[...]
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What Makes “War of Worldcraft” Worth It

I’m not a huge fan of Black Wyrm Games’ new adventure, “War of Worldcraft”. The plot, while an interesting concept, isn’t really original, and its execution isn’t too great either. The[...]
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