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Anyone out there still play the 4th edition?

4th Edition is the one that still resonates best with me.

5th is where they started to lose me with complexity and FREd went overboard in my opinion.

I haven't played 6th enough to form a decent opinion, but the characters that I've generated using 6th don't make me very enthusiastic.

I guess what I'm saying is "Yes, there are folks out there who still play with the BBB."

I've never really found any flaws with 4th, well other than it breaking down at low and normal power levels. but since I just played champions with it it did fine.

So, how would you construct a power to allow a character to take over mechanical and/or electronic devices?  The character is an alien made of energy who has a desoild power.

I was thinking maybe Str, useable while desolid, damage sheild(grab with str), only to "control" mechanical/electronic devices that actually move, not to figured char.

In reply to mox (msg #5):

So you are speaking of "physically" taking over, like one of this "Ben 10" incarnations (can't remember the names of the aliens)?
Because normally the power MENTAL CONTROL (defining machines as the class of minds affected) is used to control machines.
Maybe that works with the limitation "no range".

I'm thinking that you'd need to roll dice to try to control the machine, counting either regular points or Body points, and comparing that to the INT of an AI, or the Body of some other machine.

Didn't the ben10 alien sruuround the machines?

Yes, I was going for a grab machanic where the pc rolls str dice and the machine rolls it's str and compare body.  Bigger machines would be harder to take over.  Maybe put it into a multipower with a mind control/AIs only/no range power.

Has anyone run a 4th edition game on RPOL?

How well does Champions work in this kind of platform? Any suggestions to remove glitches or problems for playing this game on RPOL?

The only difficulty I've seen running HERO Systems (any version) is character creation, which takes quite a while. Because it's a wide open system, it can be a little intimidating when trying to lock down a character build.

I think it plays much like any other game online. If your players are fast, the pace is moderate. If they're slower, game pace is slow.

In reply to BurningBones (msg #9):

I'm running an old school Champions game, and it's not too bad.  I'm actually the lowest part of it, due to my posting schedule.
The combat can be be very slow, since you need to wait for specific people, and are stuck with their posting schedule.
But it's not bad.

That's what I was thinking.  I think I would rework combat a little, maybe require all pc's to have the same speed so they all go at the same time.

That might work.   Speed is good, but it's not the most important thing.