OGL: Faserip?

[Ranger REG]

I honestly don't see this as competition for M&M. Just like I don't see OSRIC as competition for D20.

So, you're doing this out of charity.

 

[Xyanthon]

SWEET! Marvel FASERIP is one of my all time favorites. I think I still have binders full of characters that I created back in junior high. I'd love to see new material coming out for this system.

 

[Vigilance]

So, you're doing this out of charity.

No I think he means he'll make money on FASERIP while still making money off M&M.

That's what's known as a win-win.

 

[jgbrowning]

No I think he means he'll make money on FASERIP while still making money off M&M.

That's what's known as a win-win.

Or a niw-niw if you're Gygax.

joe b.

 

[MojoGM]

Thanks for posting that site Joe!

I downloaded a bunch of stuff, and tomorrow I plan to delve into the basement and try to find all my MSHRPG stuff from way back.

I think I'm going to put together a one-shot for my gaming group...

 

[Umbran]

Unlike fantasy gaming superhero gaming is a niche market.

I'm sorry, but all rpgs are niche market. There's only a few million people who play the games. Given the effort required to provide them with products, it's quite the niche.

Be that as it may, my group and I had so much fun playing the original game, it would be something to see some of today's smart folks take another stab at the system.

 

[Ilium]

I wonder if you could use the FASERIP rules in a non-supers game by just scaling it. You'd have to adjust things like lifting capacity on the fly, but I could totally see a '30s pulp game using this system and having "Unearthly" be someone who could lift 500 pounds over his head (or maybe a bit more for a cinematic feel). Damage and everything should just work, with regular guns bumped up to the Remarkable range perhaps.

Hmm...

 

[Johnny Angel]

In a recent attempt one-off excursion into Marvel, my group found that the system was a lot more frustrating than we remembered it just in terms of producing coherent characters that were not too weak nor too powerful without tremendous GM intervention over the randomization process. I would love to see a version of the mechanics that answered this problem, possibly with a point-buy system which would allow us to distinguish, say, characters appropriate for Cat's Paw from characters ready for The Left Hand of Eternity.

 

[Vigilance]

Random character generation in MSH was not good.

Still... we had many successful campagins with modeled characters and a modified XP system.

 

[Greg K]

Despite the old Marvel game being my first superhero game and several of my house rules for the game floating around the net, I wouldn't go back to FASERIP. However, for those that will have fun playing it, I say go for it.