Akibar's D&D post (Not Marvel Universe)
 

Hey anyone out there played Marvel universe? I was really skeptical when I first played it but then I saw the light. Dice are obsolete (gasp). I know most people want to kill me now but maybe someone out there plays, if so if you need any help running, twinking, or keeping your players orm twinking (dirty healing factors) I've come up with nasty ways to both enforce, and bend the rules.






-Beware the fanatic, for his solutions are often more deadly than the problem.
-Stan Lee

Hmmmm...is that the system with the REALLY bad descriptions for stats? You know, "Stupendous," "Impressive," "Fantastic," "Feeble," etc?

No.
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Then I can't says as I've heard it. Only one I know of must be it's predecessor.

Yeah the one I play came out this year. It's really amazing, in stead of rolling dice (which in my opinion is like blindfolding your character and spinning him around before attacking) you allocate stones of effort, therefore your character will succeed if he tries hard enough, not if fate is on his side.

Scalawag.

Dice builds stradegy, if you get poor dice rolls you'll just have to use your brain to survive. Also dice help determine the level of power at your disposal, sometimes people are just weaker then others, maybe we're all rolling a d20 every minute of everyday.

Besides, anybody who says dice are obselete are either people who always roll 1s or people that just can't stand the idea of being weak.

Marvel Universe is like communism, it seems like a good idea up untill you realise anymore then two people involved will make the system break apart.

What? your allusion to communism misses the point of both communism and MU. Please note also that I've had a MAGE in the level 30's in D&D, I know what weakness is like. I just find it refreshing to see that your plan is based on how much you are willing to weaken your character to succeed instead of how much an angular peice of plastic wants it to.

Communism is a great policy up untill you read up on it entirely. 1) It puts too much trust in too many people. Corruption is emminent. 2) Communism tries to dissolve any form of religoun, which I will have no part of. And Marvel Universe is like that, great idea up untill you read up entirely on it.

True, but how challenging to the mind can something be when you're a party of six as the Avengers? I mean let's face it, anything lower then Galactus will eventually get it's butt kicked by a decent super hero combination..

I like communism. Communism is not bad it self. It's the people who don't want to work, who are bad.