You know that I am down. It is fun making up characters and hey, worst comes to worst I get another villain for *my* game. ;)

My RTJ is in like sin! ;)

Judging by the posts, and my response to the message, you've got four RTJ's already.

Well then, make that 5!!!   :D

Plus, I have a 'V&V Sidekick Bar' open link to another game, please send your sidekicks
(whether or not they've ever appeared in a game) on over for a free drink?

not a 'rules chat' game, but more of an 'in-character' chat hangout spot.

One of the most time consuming things for me in running a game is making up NPCs.

I have a game I've created where I can do that without having to get out paper and pencil and without cluttering up my active games.

If anyone would like to help me roll a few NPCs for my current game, feel free to come over.

There are not guarantees that I will use up any characters you roll, but I might.

link to another game

Happy to roll up NPC's for you, and I also have a bunch I've kept records of b/c ...
it was so time consuming.  Have a bunch of villains, sidekicks, and similar.

For those who may not know, my mother was recently diagnosed with metastatic colon and liver cancer.....it is unclear how long she has.

Now, I am not looking for sympathy but for something else. I am hoping to maybe have some active V&V discussions in here about whatever; house rules, rules as written, inventions, anything really as long as it is V&V. I figure having something else to bounce around in my head will help keep me from focusing overmuch on the above situation when I have no control over it.

How about the merits of taking head shots vs. regular attacks?

I find it hard to 'not' go for special attacks, like head shots, IF you've got the Attk bonus.
Eddy (this char) does, as those in his game knows.   I try to to resort to going for those special attk's except at dramatic and crucial moments ... for fear of loosing their cinematic and dramatic effect.  For fear of their becoming commonplace and blazè, if you know what I mean.

I think a char with high HP, or Invuln, with such ability fall into Bonespikes comment in the other thread: of characters that can dominate combat scenes.
While less combat powerful characters do not have that option.

Then again, I hate combat; so I like a good combat character who can finish combat's fast.
Of course the irony and backlash on that is, as Bonespikes says in that other thread, other characters may be left behind.

As a player character, I try to make every attack a 'special attack' in some way or another, actually foregoing damage and sometimes the most appropriate attack form to express the character's personality in actions rather than words. Assuming I've done this the entire time, occasionally shooting someone in the back (his back was to me!) or the head becomes just another aspect of the character and not a strategic maneuver.
As a GM, I allow the villain's write-up to suggest whether or not they'll use special attacks. Otherwise I let them be as boring as possible to annoy the PC's into hitting them harder.

I've been in a bunch of games & what I've decided about V&V is that, while some powers are obv out of whack, combos of powers can really make things get interesting.

Oscillator is a flyer & has vibration control x2 (and a few other powers).  So while that might not seem great, he can 'vibra-fly' through the floor, through the ceiling, etc.  I didn't have it all figured out when I made him, but I had his Special Weapon have a 'Heightened Sense' which lets him sense vibration -- so he can see while in materials.
GM has ruled (rightfully, IMO) that Osc can't attack from 100% cover, nor can he breathe in materials (I'm not sure on that), and he's not allowed to pick up a baddie & drop them in a material -- but it's still sweet.

Other nice combos I've seen include High Agi & Absorption (allows a lot of absorbing per round), and an area effect ranged mental attack.

In this game, our team is sorta lacking in mental powers, which makes us susceptible.  I have a new respect for offensive mental powers in V&V.

As for special attacks, I'll do them frequently if it will make a difference.  Almost always have hero with some type of carrier attack.

Different strokes I guess... I don't know how to comment here, I run my own game as best I can.  I also enjoy all the games I'm in.  Due to some RL craziness I'm having to cut back on my gaming, but it's not due to lack of enjoyment.

Hope it is good crazy.

Also hope you keep running your VnV game.

Hear, hear.

I do appreciate the discussion, especially as games are in a bit of a summer lull. The distraction is quite welcome as is the opportunity to flex my thinking some.

It's not all bad, but it's not really good, either. :)

Thanks for the thoughts.  As for keeping my game going, I will try.

Hang in there, 'Spike!

It got quiet again....normally I don't mind the summer lull but any distraction I can have is a good thing right now.

Reposted from a game:
Sidebar 1:  Mobile games: I've been hooked into INJUSTICE (the DC heroes fighter) on Android (also on IOS).

a) it's super-addictive
b) I'm committed to *not pay a dime EVER*
c) it's kinda fun
d) it's kinda bad AND really large (bigger than 1 gig?!?!?!)
e) I love WonderWoman (awesome) and am saddened by Flash (weak sauce)

I also play Marvel Puzzle Quest.
         a, b, *I find it absurdly fun*, and it's pretty small.
         e) Fav heroes are Iron Man & Black Widow b/c of how they combo -- and they are starters.
Anyone else play either of these?

---

Sidebar 2:  Any non-spoiler commentary on following movies:

a) Guardians of Galaxy
b) Hercules
c) Ant-Man
d) Avengers 2
e) Iron Man 'Extremis Armor' (oooh, hard not to spoil when discussing this)
f) Falcon from Captain America 2
etc etc

 a) Guardians of Galaxy Up there with Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
 b) Hercules Why?
 c) Ant-Man Why not?
 d) Avengers 2 Promising after the last one.
 e) Iron Man 'Extremis Armor' (oooh, hard not to spoil when discussing this)
 f) Falcon from Captain America 2 Big fan of Falcon as a kid. OK but they could have done more.

Are you claiming this was an *EPIC* film?  That it will be seen as a classic genre-changing blip in the annals of movie history?
WOW.
Or are you just saying it was *awesome*?

A little clarity here?

Largely unknown cast from an unknown source, albeit Marvel, Guardians is hardly a marquee title. Standing a lot of accepted ideas on their head.

When it ends you wants more.


See it tomorrow
This message was last edited by the GM at 06:24, Mon 11 Aug 2014.

Friend just invited me to see it with them at another theater (where they know the owner) when it's there (probably in 1 mo) for free and there's free beer too.

Hard to pass THAT up!

No one playing either INJUSTICE or Marvel Puzzle Quest?!?!?

Surprised!

I refuse to use a phone that's smarter than my car, and I'm still driving an old clunker.
On a, tangentially related, note I just saw Man-Thing. I didn't even know this had been made, though I normally keep up with such things. It wasn't bad, but drifted so far from the original that I felt it missing something.

Who has time?

Honestly, keeping up with RPOL is challenging enough! :)