My other favorite Super Hero game

[Go0gleplex]

Used to have the 1st ed Mutants & Masterminds books. Was hard to follow though so meandered around until I found Victorious which is more of a Steampunk era superhero setting. Played FACERIP Marvel Heroes a few times...was interesting. Champions once...didn't leave much of an impression. d6 Heroes looks interesting on read thru but not played it (or anything tabletop in a decade or more sadly.)

[Mozie]

On 7/18/2025 at 3:33 PM, WumpusRat said:

Champions (and Hero System in general) was definitely a very complex character generation system IF you used all the bells and whistles. 

Essentially, it was a lot of math. But you could make just about any character you wanted.

 

They have (or had, at least, I haven't seen anything past 4th edition) general-purpose powers (Energy Blast, Armor, Flash, Killing Attack, etc) that you can buy, with various costs per 1d6, and then just say it's whatever special effect you want. 

A character with a high-powered rifle could have a ranged killing attack with it, or if they went with "slightly less lethal" rounds, buy it as an energy blast and say it's physical damage. If they wanted it to be completely non-lethal, they could apply a limitation on it of "no body-damage" (body being the stat for hit points, effectively) and make it cost a bit less, or if they want it to be some round that explodes on impact and douses the target in chemicals that knock them unconscious without dealing any other damage, you could buy the advantage "no normal defense" and say "the defense against this is having the power that means you don't have to breathe air", etc.

 

It's a fun game, but if you've never played it before, you'd definitely need someone to help design a character, as it's definitely made for math nerds. 🙂

Let's say I wan to try this. Which edition should I start with?

[Mozie]

On 7/18/2025 at 2:46 PM, BlackSpectre said:

I ran across this a couple days ago while looking for different version of the COH Game Manual... it's for a game called Chaosium which apparently has been around since 1975 (but I never heard of it). Looks kinda cool...

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14F34VL7uuYGFTJa52EiyrPXwDgM1etVz/view?usp=sharing

 

 

Wait. WAIT! I've never seen this or heard of Chaosium

[Mozie]

On 7/17/2025 at 5:30 AM, Octogoat said:

 

Both games had dildo bat I think but saints row 4 had superpowers. And they did them in a really cool way. Superspeed made a vortex of cars, pedestrians, and debris as you ran.

 

I'm surprised no one has modded that into a Flash game

[Mozie]

On 7/16/2025 at 11:15 PM, Solarverse said:

 

Is this part of Heroes Unlimited?

No. It's a separate system. 

[Darmian]

3 minutes ago, Mozie said:

Wait. WAIT! I've never seen this or heard of Chaosium

Chaosium print Call of Cthulhu.  It's pretty much their signature game line.

[Mozie]

On 7/16/2025 at 8:12 PM, lemming said:

https://mobiusworldspublishing.com/products/prowlers-paragons-ultimate-edition/

 

Great people and there have been quite a few supplements.  I don't get to ttrpg like I used to, but this is a great game.

 

I have a bunch of others in storage currently, but mostly older (think 80s & 90s)

I have to try that

[Mozie]

On 7/26/2025 at 4:25 PM, Darmian said:

Chaosium print Call of Cthulhu.  It's pretty much their signature game line.

Then I do know what it is.

[DougGraves]

I love Champions - but Basic Action SuperHeroes (BASH) gives you 80% of what Champions gives you at 20% of the complexity.

[ZeeHero]

my friend actually has been running a M&M game which has been pretty fun. right now we are fugitives who have been framed and escaped super-jail though!