Comments on: Five roleplaying games I’ve played, and you should too

By: Crimson_Archer

Crimson_Archer — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:37:54 +0000

Still got to be the original TSR Marvel Super Heroes RPG for me… Loved it then, love it now! I’ve used that system and that table for so many home-brew games it’s ridiculous. Amazingly flexible system.

By: Rockjaw

Rockjaw — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:37:44 +0000

Heh heh. RPG.net is well known for its angst, so don’t sweat it.

If you compile a big list of ‘best anything’ there will be plenty of people who disagree with it. Nice thing about the Internet of course; they can go make their own lists if they like.

Look forward to future posts.

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:09:45 +0000

Superhero 2044 isn’t expensive on eBay at all, but it’s not always available. I also have the only published supplement for it. The setting is surprisingly entertaining.

I’ve run many a Superworld campaign. George RR Martin’s Wild Cards books are based on a Superworld campaign he ran many years ago. Great books if you haven’t read them.

That post of 100 RPGs stirred up quite a bit of angst at the rpg.net forums too. I’m grateful for my thick skin. I’m working on a couple of new posts right now, but I’ve had some writers’ block related to that particular blog. Something will go live tomorrow for sure though.

By: Rockjaw

Rockjaw — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:07:22 +0000

Hey Randy. No problems about the mention, and thanks for the compliment – although if I’d written up 100 RPGs like this, it’d be book length. (No, it’d never work.)

BTW you can’t fault your strategy for naming and/or linking – you’ve got a lot of comments on the original article and more than a few mentions from blogs like this. So well done. All I’d say is; don’t make every article a list.

The completist / OCD part of me has led me to buy a few superhero RPGs in the past just for the historical interest – I own Superworld (Chaosium) as a result. Superhero 2044 would be interesting to read; I might well eBay it one day.

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:17:09 +0000

I’ve actually read LOTS of articles about how to create blog post titles. Thanks for the mention in your post. I thought your post here was probably a lot better than mine, because you went into a lot more detail about each game. You also mentioned a game that I haven’t tried. Skyrealms of Joirune.

I have Superhero 2044. You want to talk about low-tech. The game looks like it was typed on a typewriter, then cut up into sections, then taped onto a master copy, then printed on a mimeograph machine. Nonetheless, it’s pretty neat to see the beginning of superhero roleplaying. You can usually find a copy of it pretty cheap on eBay too.