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Author Topic: Favorite Supers RPG? Which one and why!!!  (Read 5481 times)

rgalex

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« Reply #60 on: October 03, 2019, 09:00:39 AM »
Mutants and Masterminds 1e was the first supers game that didn't fizzle after 2 sessions for my group.  I ran a 3 year long campaign that started at street level and ended up just shy of cosmic by the end.  We've revisited the setting we built a couple times, although we've moved over to M&M 3e, and plan to do another campaign at some point.

Both Aberrant and Necessary Evil I love for the settings alone.

Recently we've gotten into Tiny Supers for quick one-offs where we want to have a night of super hero fun without any commitment to anything.  Usually happens when one or more people can't make it for the regular game.

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« Reply #61 on: October 03, 2019, 09:52:09 AM »
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TSR's Marvel Superheroes. ***start rant*** God I am so sick of people calling it "FASERIP"... That is NOT the games name or even its initialism, and was initially used by non-fans of the game as a derogatory term, you morons! ***end rant***

It is pretty much a "do anything" RPG and can cover everything from street level adventures up to cosmic beings. It can also handle space opera, westerns, detectives, crime drama, pulp heroes, anime, mecha, fantasy, and the list goes on.

MSH is also a fairly easy system using percentile dice and once past chargen it plays very smoothly.

Second favourite is Villains & Vigilanties and Heroes Unlimited and/or Scraypers.
I was going to say FASERIP was my runner-up after Champions, but i wouldn't want to trigger anyone...:D
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« Reply #62 on: October 03, 2019, 01:04:10 PM »
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I guess I wasn't quite as done with the superheroes genre as I thought I was after I sold Supers! to Hazard Studios.


Excellent response. I'm glad you continued too. I like Supers! but I enjoy Triumphant even more.

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« Reply #63 on: October 04, 2019, 01:43:52 PM »
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Excellent response. I'm glad you continued too. I like Supers! but I enjoy Triumphant even more.

Nice to hear. I'm in that boat too.

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« Reply #64 on: October 11, 2019, 10:12:57 AM »
I really like the HERO SYSTEM but I stop at the Big Blue Book. I have ripped off a few things from 5th (CHANGE ENVIROMENT & Megascale) but that is it. Think Steve Long kinda fucked it up IMHO.

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« Reply #65 on: October 11, 2019, 12:24:37 PM »
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I really like the HERO SYSTEM but I stop at the Big Blue Book. I have ripped off a few things from 5th (CHANGE ENVIROMENT & Megascale) but that is it. Think Steve Long kinda fucked it up IMHO.

Did you check out the last Hero System thread? It's a doozy.