The Invincible (amazon prime series)

[Umbran]

I just finished S1 and boy do I feel wrong and stupid for sleeping on it.

So good.

It is good. But, I am told, if you were on from the beginning, the waits between seasons were kind of interminable. I jumped on late, so I could watch more of the story in a more regular fashion, and was happy for that.

... because now the waits between seasons seem soooo loooooonnnnnngggggg.

 

[Ryujin]

It is good. But, I am told, if you were on from the beginning, the waits between seasons were kind of interminable. I jumped on late, so I could watch more of the story in a more regular fashion, and was happy for that.

... because now the waits between seasons seem soooo loooooonnnnnngggggg.

Yeah, the waits are pretty long. Then there's the mid-season splits that are also too long.

 

[jian]

Just about the gore - it’s definitely a choice, it’s not related to realism or anything like that. It’s just that in this superhero universe, there’s a huge mismatch between strength and invulnerability levels. Everyone has UN Strength but only EX Invulnerability.

It’s interesting how this is reflected in the Invincible RPG (currently QuickStart only) - it’s very easy to suffer horrendous injuries and spend weeks in hospital between adventures. I’m not sure how fun that would be in play.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It’s interesting how this is reflected in the Invincible RPG (currently QuickStart only) - it’s very easy to suffer horrendous injuries and spend weeks in hospital between adventures. I’m not sure how fun that would be in play.

It depends on how much else there is to do during downtime. If Character A is in the hospital, healing, but Characters B and C can work on improving skills or building some high-tech weapon, I think it'll be fine.

 

[jian]

It depends on how much else there is to do during downtime. If Character A is in the hospital, healing, but Characters B and C can work on improving skills or building some high-tech weapon, I think it'll be fine.

I think you can’t always ensure that everyone will be downtiming at the same time, so troupe style play might be a good approach (Invincible’s in traction again, time to play Bulletproof for a bit).

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I think you can’t always ensure that everyone will be downtiming at the same time

"Hey, Bob's character is down for the count. So, let's say that nothing much happens for the next little bit and everyone else's character can do a downtime activity."

Not sure I want to play with a group that would say "nah, screw that guy; we're playing without him."

 

[jian]

"Hey, Bob's character is down for the count. So, let's say that nothing much happens for the next little bit and everyone else's character can do a downtime activity."

Not sure I want to play with a group that would say "nah, screw that guy; we're playing without him."

I think it’s more where the story goes. For instance, if the team is investigating a mad scientist who’s planning to destroy the city and Invincible gets both his arms broken in the first fight with the giant robot, then of course the Guardians are going to press on without him and use the data from the defeated robot to track the villain to his lair and destroy his doomsday device. That’s time critical and can’t wait for Invincible to get out of hospital. Better for his player to switch to Bulletproof (who was out of town earlier on a different case) so he can take part in the rest of the adventure.

Overall, I think I would take the rules for being Broken out if I was running the RPG. I’m not sure they add anything that our group would want.