Someone I'd never heard of emailed me out of the blue and asked me if I'd run JAGS Wonderland online for their group. We just completed "Season 2" of the game (it's on YouTube, they stream it):
JAGS is very different than GURPS (or Hero)--but it is definitely informed by them.
1. It is supposed to support some of the grittiness that GURPS can provide.
2. It is supposed to provide the scalability that Hero can (GURPS, for us, didn't do what we wanted from a Supers system)
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Some lasers, a rail-gun sniper's rifle, an assault carbine, a blaster (that looks to me like a space-pirate's weapon!), and a modern-tech shotgun and SMG. I may do some more but this rounds out his "starting price list" request.
A friend is working on a space-game rules-set and wanted some starting guns for PCs to be able to purchase. I'm teaching myself 3d modeling so I said I'd do some and see where we wound up. The weapons tech is modern-day-ish with a lot of caseless ammo and stuff like safeties that interface with...
For adventure games I make some dungeons or locations--usually doing maps with sketchy notes for them and then turn the PCs loose with some kind of overarching story-line of some sort (like the PCs are on a cross country journey to a magic academy or the PCs live in a post apocalypse town and...
I was the opposite. I tolerated levels in D&D but found playing other, level-less, game systems preferable (playing or GMing). However, over time, and because of my experience enjoying computer games, I found that "leveling up" was something that I enjoyed and other players enjoyed.
Leveling...
We just launched JAGS Holiday City--a super hero worldbook for JAGS with ~100 illustrated characters. The PDF is free (so are the PDFs for the game system). The rules feature:
- A full background and world including a set up for three games: High School supers, Street Level Supers, and More...
Has anyone ever sat down and talked with the murderhobo player? I mean--we never had problems with "pretty traditional supers"--but we certainly did have clashes over what was appropriate, etc.
It's not a cure-all but saying "the bad guys kill people--the PCs are supposed to be pretty much the...
I didn't know about this--that's great!
I usually try to give new players (and regular ones) a hand-out on the game that explains what the basic scenario is and gives them some examples of what characters would make sense for it.
I also am very careful to state up-front expectations and...
I ran a JAGS Wonderland game streaming--we lost some of the audio and such--but it's complete and should be decently easy to follow. I can certainly answer any questions about it.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_mEkxRdIyPcUU7EGhpb4wzZmAmJ67AaZ
I should really say more about it: I was...
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