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dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord
So it's Interlude Time at the dwarf's gaming table, and this time our interlude game (scheduled for 2-3 sessions at most) is MARVEL FASERIP! :toot:

The group unanimously wanted to make their own characters, so a few quick questions...

(1) Basic or Advanced? I am thinking Basic because this is like 10ish total hours of play-time, but don't want to short-change the experience if Advanced chargen makes cooler heroes. I am totally cool smashing the two together, and doing like Advanced chargen/powers but Basic other rules or whatever.

(2) Any good adventures we can smash through in like 10 hours?

I haven't played this game in ... what, 25 years? So any advice is awesome.

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dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord
Cool - I will look into those. I am 99% sure I ran ... Time Trap maybe? ... back when I was a kid.

I remember the Cosmos Cubed adventures very well. I don't remember if we ever played 'em though.

Oh! And for ... uh ... science? ... I rolled up a character tonight. I got an Alien with Animal Transformation. I was bummed because all my stats were Good (no, seriously, all of them except Psyche) until I saw he could turn into a Dinosaur. I was pretty okay with that.

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord

ibntumart posted:

Ha, the Cosmos Cubed ones were precisely the ones I was looking at. A fun way to get more mileage from the Annihilation Event book or so I am telling myself.

I wasted so many hours rolling up improbable superheroes with the Ultimate Power Book back in the day. I loved how you could get an angel PC with Monstrous Reality Alteration and Poor Prehensile Hair almost as easily as a half-robot(usuform)/half-undead with Excellent Hyper-Olfactory Sense and Feeble Berserking.
Yeah, I remember the biggest problem we had with those was Gladiator doing 500 damage on a charge...

Still, I have a huge soft spot for cosmic Marvel.

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord

ibntumart posted:

Hey dwarf74, how did the FASERIP sessions go?
Just had one so far, yesterday. It went ... okay.

Characters were randomly generated. I had...

Dr. Kingsford - mutant with Poor charcoal body armor and Monstrous Fire Control. Zippos himself aflame, then uses that to attack
Captapult (groan) - altered human with Monstrous strength, remarkable earth control, and elongation.
Tankbuster - hi-tech wonder who rolled amazingly well on his suit, so ended up with Monstrous agility. Energy touch attack.
1101 - alien with Energy Transformation
[robot whose name i forgot] - gravity manipulation and a ranged stunning attack that mostly served to drain bad guys' karma.
[altered human whose name i forgot] - shrinking, elongation, and a web attack. very weird, but cool.

I ran Time Trap, and the party had a good deal of trouble with both Mimic (seriously, the party had a lot of high stats spread all around, which Mimic ended up with) and Drax.

Combat took longer than I remembered or expected.

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