Generation Legacy: Part Three

[Shalimar]

How about our short lived British archer-girl will she make an appearance? I think she lasted all of 1-2 issues

Sollir no need to be hard on yourself stuff happens. Running a game is much harder than playing in one. I'd suggest getting back into playing before trying to run one though.

 

[Samnell]

What you need is someone that isn't really gosh-wow-good, but trying their damnedest to be so. Anika was fun to play.

That was sort of Mark's thing too, but he had thick layers of self-delusion over it. He did all these definitely-not-boards-ok things while living on the street to get his next score. Then he got powers which prettied him all up and gave him a chance to kick the drugs, so he was trying to be some kind of role model all the sudden and it seemed to be working when the UN wanted him to be GL's leader. Of course he still had some withdrawal symptoms and flashbacks, and honestly he wasn't doing much to come to terms so much as pretending nothing ever happened.

On the plus side, Yoshi is alive! Yay!

Awesome. Mark adored Tommy and Star, but Yoshi was Samnell's favorite NPC. Remember when his mother visited the school and kept knocking him upside the head?

 

[Samnell]

Unrelated note:

Had I been aware that Hero High was written somewhat in-character I would have bought it a lot sooner than tonight.

 

[Agamon]

Unrelated note:

Had I been aware that Hero High was written somewhat in-character I would have bought it a lot sooner than tonight.

Yeah, I like all of the interviews, too. Good book.

 

[Agamon]

How about our short lived British archer-girl will she make an appearance? I think she lasted all of 1-2 issues

Probably not. I'm not going to start out with a cast of thousands, so some paring down is needed. I've got a pretty good idea who was popular and who wasn't, so I'll start with that. The great thing about the Institute is that you can introduce new PCs or NPCs pretty much any time and that introduction isn't contrived.

Also, I don't really want to get into who I will and won't include OOC, I'll leave that for the game itself. But anyone that wants to give their two cents on who they liked or didn't from the old game (and why), sure can, and I'll take it into account.

 

[Samnell]

I'm kicking around a bunch of ideas as I push through Hero High. So in pursuit of narrowing some things down, or getting yet more ideas, annoying questions for Agamon follow:

1) How long have elites been around? I know we did something like nine months of game time, but I'm not sure how long they'd been about before it started. Ten years?

2) How big is the Mudaba Adin School for Elite Children? Does it operate a lot of extra-curriculars (sort of like an American high school with sports programs, drama club, etc) or is it a more International/European school that's mainly about academics and powers with the occasional dance maybe thrown in? Is it still run by the UN and the Justice Elite?

3) Aside from the 40 pp limit on powers and the realistic limits that puts on going crazy, any other power limitations? I remember Toki ruled out dimensional travel and specified we could only take precognitive powers as uncontrolled.

4) Are there any issues that might make it more or less likely that particular elites, or elites from particular countries, would be at Mudaba Adin? Like is Botswana crazy about the school and grants a special stipend to the families with children there, or Belarus is an international pariah that expressly forbids its citizens from attending?

 

[Hammerhead]

You know, I was really hoping we could have an edition war. That issue got defused way too quickly if you ask me. Maybe someone can point out how bad 3.X was, or compare 4E to some kind of video game? Please?

This game does sound like a lot of fun, assuming it goes through. I think I'd let poor Ryan enjoy his vacation from having to be mean, sarcastic, and cold-hearted and play someone new. Maybe someone smarter and more compassionate.

As far as rules, I figure that the Wide and No Save Extras would be banned?

 

[Samnell]

You know, I was really hoping we could have an edition war. That issue got defused way too quickly if you ask me. Maybe someone can point out how bad 3.X was, or compare 4E to some kind of video game? Please?

But...I like you guys and don't want to Edition War with you... Plus Venture Bros. keeps distracting me. I can't decide of Billy Quizboy, Boy Genius's, real last name is meant as a very obscure shout out to the actor that played Ridley in the D&D movie and Jimmy Olsen on Lois & Clark or if my brain is just such a scary place that I'm the only person who would ever think of that. Having listened to their commentaries where they sound disturbingly like me and my best friend, I really don't know.

 

[Agamon]

I'm kicking around a bunch of ideas as I push through Hero High. So in pursuit of narrowing some things down, or getting yet more ideas, annoying questions for Agamon follow:

1) How long have elites been around? I know we did something like nine months of game time, but I'm not sure how long they'd been about before it started. Ten years?

I think Toki went with 5 years, I'm going with 2 and start the game in 2012. So a pretty new phenomenon.

2) How big is the Mudaba Adin School for Elite Children? Does it operate a lot of extra-curriculars (sort of like an American high school with sports programs, drama club, etc) or is it a more International/European school that's mainly about academics and powers with the occasional dance maybe thrown in? Is it still run by the UN and the Justice Elite?

Very much like the original, which was run a lot like a private school, so yeah, more European than American. Reminiscent of Prof. X's school in X-Men. Pretty much the same size as before, it could hold probably 120 kids, but won't be even near capacity to start. And it is run by the UN, just like the Justice Elite (not along with, I'm making the distinction here - another reason I'm pushing back the timeline, I want the JL and Paragon to wield less power to start than they did).

Gotta get to work, I'll answer more questions later. If anyone's got anything to add, go right ahead.

 

[Agamon]

3) Aside from the 40 pp limit on powers and the realistic limits that puts on going crazy, any other power limitations? I remember Toki ruled out dimensional travel and specified we could only take precognitive powers as uncontrolled.

For the most part, I don't want to eliminate anything completely. With a system like this, abuse is always possible. What I do hope to limit is any abusive builds. Toki also wasn't crazy about Incorporeal and Invisibility either, which is understandable. However, the last character I did up for this game had both of those powers, but wasn't a "I-can-hit-you-but-you-can't-hit-me" character, and fairly well balanced.

So I don't want to limit concept, but if I think your build might be a little out of wack, I'll ask you to make changes.

That said, dimension travel and time travel will be tough powers to pass
muster...

So, those two extras you mentioned, HH, are ripe for abuse, but I won't reject them outright.

And I've glanced through Hero High again, and I think Untapped Potential is a bit broken for a feat, so after all that, yeah, I'm not going to allow that.

4) Are there any issues that might make it more or less likely that particular elites, or elites from particular countries, would be at Mudaba Adin? Like is Botswana crazy about the school and grants a special stipend to the families with children there, or Belarus is an international pariah that expressly forbids its citizens from attending?

I had to think a bit about this one. On paper, there's no difference between Barcalona and Mudaba Adin. Any elite child in a UN nation can apply to the schools, and no member nations at this point are refusing to cooperate. Not everyone is accepted, but if you are, the UN foots the bill.

However, some powerful and wealthy families have pulled some strings to make Mudaba Adin more of the elite elite school, if you know what I mean. If a child of parents with a lot of political and economic pull is an elite, they attend Mudaba Adin. Not to say there aren't middle and lower class kids at the school, just that all the rich kids are there.