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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7654763" data-attributes="member: 4937">I've never met a supers group in all the years I've spent playing RPGs.  I've met groups that played Top Secret, Chill, Paranoia, Deadlands, Call of Cthulhu, Star Wars, and even RIFTS, but not one single Supers group using any rules set.   I know that they exist - I've heard from quite a few on EnWorld - but I'd be really surprised if they've ever been particularly common.A friend of mine once observed that GURPS was the most popular system no one ever played, because we all owned the books and enjoyed reading the books, but none of us were planning a GURPS campaign and even those that had played one never sustained it.   I'm sure that there are exceptions of long running GURPS campaigns, but as a general rule I think his observation that GURPS was more popular with game book collectors than game book players holds true.  I know I probably spent more time content smithing with GURPS than I ever did running the games.   My cousin who played old school Traveller likewise used to spend a lot of time just random system building for the fun of it.   It's a different way of enjoying RPGs than playing them, and I think it's probably more critical to the RPG economy than is realized.I have, perhaps solely because of my unusual experience, have the suspicion 'Supers' games fall in the same category.  I own some supers books myself, but have never actually played nor planned in any detail such a game.</blockquote>

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