Issue #6: Grave Lunacy

Soulsbane · Mar 1 '12, 8:03pm

I'm intrigued, but I have a couple of questions: A) will this be the same game that you ran previously albeit different heroes? And B) how far is the campaign? Up to, or beyond the 5th issue?

Penchant · Mar 1 '12, 9:18pm

We are at the beginning of Issue 6. Orion has indicated that the world will persist and he won't be recycling the old issues. It's been a pretty cool game so far. Combining the D20 Modern with the Phoenix add on seems to make for much more detailed characters that a superhero system might otherwise do. We are at the high end of crime fighters and just short of truly super, IMHO as far as power scale.

Soulsbane · Mar 1 '12, 9:43pm

That sounds pretty good. I like the sound of that concept. I would like to know where to apply.

The Real Orion · 10:50pm

Penchant's basically right. I want to pick up more or less where the game left off on the other site. We've just gotten part-way through a game before two out of three players had to drop out because they were too busy, so I thought we'd restart that game, and I'll alter it enough that Penchant's not bored (because I don't want to waste all that planning!). The characters are currently 8th level, and I think they're roughly analogous, in terms of power level, to D&D characters of the same level, so Penchant's right again that they're currently becoming truly "super."

As far as the length of it, it's an on-going series, as it were, so it has no definable end. I have Epic rules written into Phoenix as well, so 20th level isn't even a barrier. (I'd actually love to run an epic game some time, but that's a whole other discussion.) I write the issues as we go, using the characters' back-stories as fodder for games as much as anything else, and I'm just on the cusp of bringing in a regular Rogues Gallery (it's taken this long to build up some villains to fill it). I also want to encourage as much levelling up as possible because I'm partly testing the system to see if it scales, so it'll be one level per issue, and each level comes with power upgrades.

As for where to apply... I thought this was where to apply! This will be the first time I've run a game on Myth Weavers, so you'll have to pardon me for having a wee bit of a learning curve. That reminds me as well that using the Myth Weavers on-line character sheets might become unwieldy, so if we have to, we can use Google Docs for character sheets, although I would like to try using the MW sheets to see if it works.

If you're interested in playing, Soulsbane, what kind of character do you think you might run? Ignoring the rules for minute, what kind of hero might be fun to play?

Soulsbane · Mar 1 '12, 11:58pm

I really like the idea of a Modern Paragon and Epic level where you can actually have that D&D power creep. Keeping that in mind, my character would be a hero whose powers was stealing others. Not just copying them, but taking them. The victim would lose said superpower until I would take another power, which would return the first. Example: I steal Wolverine's healing. Wolvie can't heal. I then take Storm's power, she can't do a rain dance and now Wolverine can heal again.

I like this concept because you don't just Sponge everything, become the Über-everything. Instead, your only as super as the power you take.

If you have a specific concept in mind, I'll work with it. In the meantime, I'm happy to make a character backstory and details.

The Real Orion · Mar 2 '12, 12:02am

Just to be clear, I'm not proposing an Epic-level game right now. We're starting 8th level. That said, you can absolutely do the power set you're talking about. It's called Power Absorption, and it works very similarly to what you describe.

Penchant · Mar 2 '12, 12:04am

There's plenty of room on the D20 modern sheet for all the extras you get from being super. Just remember that there are a few skill consolidations (spot and listen are rolled into Observe) but that's editable within the sheet as usual.

Orchomenos · Mar 2 '12, 12:17am

Trying to decide if I want/can dedicate myself to a game on MythWeaver.

I'm reading your sourcebook, and I have a concept in mind. That of a dude with sidekick class and the power Duplicate Self, basically becoming his own sidekick.

Quixotico · Mar 2 '12, 12:25am

Depending on how often/much you can duplicate yourself, there could be sidekicks for all! Or your own football team.