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Best dark superhero RPG

Started by jan paparazzi, March 08, 2014, 07:40:40 PM

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The Butcher

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June 28, 2014, 09:19:55 AM
Quote from: Omega;760417I'll toss a vote in for White Wolf's Aberrant game.

Very dark setting, like mixing DC with X-files levels of conspiracy plots and a very "what if normal people were given superpowers?" long before Heroes and much more extensively.

Admittedly it was probably the only "dark/gritty" supers RPG setting I had any experience with, but it was fun. The system didn't really scale well but I enjoyed the setting.

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June 28, 2014, 03:23:40 PM
Quote from: jan paparazzi;735724I have a friend who has this problem in D&D. Too powerful characters. When we started playing WoD, he commented that he likes the low powered nature of the game. You can die (it often takes two swings) and you are vulnerable to certain attacks, no matter how powerful you become. You can become Rambo the vampire, but you can still be dominated by a run of the mill Ventrue. You have to be careful all the time, which makes for great gaming imo.

Sorry I missed this, but the whole argument falls apart at "you can die,"
Potential lethality should be a function of the setting and not the power level of the PCs. If as a referee you can't make things dangerous for Superman, you are simply put, doing it wrong.
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June 30, 2014, 03:13:12 PM
Quote from: Gib;762308Sorry I missed this, but the whole argument falls apart at "you can die,"
Potential lethality should be a function of the setting and not the power level of the PCs. If as a referee you can't make things dangerous for Superman, you are simply put, doing it wrong.

Yes, in principle.  But I'm not sure that's what he was saying there.  I think he was saying "you can be taken down very easily and in a myriad of ways" which to me doesn't mean the alternative is "you never die".
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