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These things are much easier to balance in more freeform games. In a game like DnD it makes sense to have specific rules-defined abilitets and disabilities. In a freeform game it just becomes a part of the conversation. A blind character's player can claim to be better in a certain situation...

This is the main reason I like Blades in the Dark so much. I always wanted planning to be retroactive, but having actual rules support for it really helps.

Quoted for truth. :)

Rounds must be fast if a scene can be up to 8 rounds long. Or do most actions end sooner?

I had a thought in relation to Blades in the Dark, and I wonder if it has been thought over by others. The idea is to replace bonuses and penalties to effect with more or fewer dice. So if an effect would normally have great effect, it now gains +1d, and when acting against someone with higher...

Is the M&M in "Most supers ttrpgs can't touch that level of power but M&M can." Mutants and Masterminds, or is it ICONS, or something else? I'm asking because this is not at all the impression I got playing Mutants and Masterminds, it felt like it had a pretty low power ceiling, but I was not...

Is Marvel Heroic Roleplay available today? I remember it as a TSR game.

The Marvel game from TSR has got good things said about it, and so has the DC Heroes game. I think I bought that at some con, I need to check my bookshelf. Prowlers and Paragons does sound interesting too. I also found this Savage Worlds hack announced here on ENworld. Savage Worlds might be a...

Sorry for the number of replies in a row, I am in different time zone from many of you. I find it a bit funny that the very first meaning of Invalid that comes up in my mind, someone handicapped by war wounds, was not directly mentioned in the dictionary. Its also a bit funny that in the...

To be honest, this happens in Swedish too, just not as quickly and more based on social class than on physical phenomena. For some reason I don't fully grasp, the N-word is unacceptable in Swedish, despite Sweden having almost no black people at all 50 ago. An Americanism I guess. I wonder how...

The idea here, which I would include if I ever publish this, is that your infirmity is a part of your identity to such a degree that it is the state that any healing will return you to. So if you try to Regenerate a crippled leg gained as a part of this background, it won't work, because the...

I find that Chat GPT is very good at this, but you need to ask.

I respect your views here, but I do not feel bound by them. Nobody's entire origin story can be summed up in any background, it is just a moniker used to get a quick grasp and some hints for role-playing. In this way, Folk Hero is as bad a description as Invalid. No-one is just a folk hero. But...

Villains and Vigilantes it was indeed. This was back in... 1982? Anyway we never got much beyond session zero, but it still left me with a negative impression, which may be why we never went past session zero. :) Masks is the winner so far. Sentinel Comics RPG does sound interesting, but also...

Blades in the Dark is derived from Powered by the Apocalypse, but there seems to be a number of differences. I'm not familiar with Powered by the Apocalypse, as might be guessed from me not recognizing it. :) you saying BitD has "more mechanics" does sound promising for Powered by the...

I think super hero role-playing probably works better with a more narrative structure, but I am pretty new to such games. Something like Blades in the Dark might work well. Actually the Princess World hack of BitD I have been using could be a good start. There each princess has a specialty, such...

Looking for another term. "Disabled" to me means you are incapable of action, which is not really what you'd say about someone who is able to adventure. Same with crippled and incapacitated. Handicapped might work, it feels a bit too modern to my ear but is the best so far. I used "infirmity" to...

English is not my native language, so it is easy to miss connotations. In Swedish, being an invalid (its spelled the same) means you live with injuries, often such suffered in the line of duty, and the connotation is quite positive. I think its the same in French, so I assumed it was so in...

The super games I've tried never really worked well. I haven't played a lot of them tough. Champions, Mutants and Masterminds, Dream Park, and a really old one where your character was supposed to be yourself (with stat estimations) plus superpowers. All of them felt slow, clunky, and poorly...

An offshot from another thread. The super games I've tried never really worked well. I haven't played a lot of them tough. Champions, Mutants and Masterminds, Dream Park, and a really old one where your character was supposed to be yourself (with stat estimations) plus superpowers. All of them...