Someone run me a game

[jeregenest]

The game I want someone to run for me is an amalgam of several of the things I’ve been using in my rpgs melded into a beautiful whole done for me in a style that I can’t run.

I want to play a superhero game. Not any superhero game but a massive, crazy cross-world extravaganza that will make Morrison’s head spin (shouldn’t be that hard).

I want four generations of heroes spanning the 20th century. Pulp, golden age, silver age and than gonzo modern. I actually don’t want to play the others, I just want them as backdrop, basically their adventures would be handled by something like a mission whenever its decided to be relevant.

I don’t want it in an established world -- that bores me. I want a total blank slate that will be defined pre-character creation by a Lexicon. For characters I want the ability to write a few hundred words on the character and then go from there. Like HeroQuest but lighter. And I don’t want any mechanics that require me to use a calculator or worry about wrist sprain.

This game appeals to me like nothing anyone in our circle is currently running. I can’t handle the pure glee of superheroes well (my superheroes would be darker than Warren Ellis’ if I ran it). But I don’t want it to be a comic game. Morrison’s JLA is a lot of what I’m thinking here. But weirder -- much, much weirder. And it would use all the mechanics and tricks that I’ve been seeing on the gamemaster side of the fence. That would be nice.

Comments

[head58.livejournal.com]

Mr. Genest, are you trying to seduce me? :)

Funny, I was talking with a friend this past weekend about the Supers lexicon/game I've been planning to do later this summer (http://www.livejournal.com/users/head58/148331.html) and he said "why not do 4 rounds - one for each era (golden, silver, gritty 80s, present day)?"

Yeah, I would be very down for this as well. I differ from you only in the mechanics. I like a semi-solid foundation, and the ability to depart from it as necessary. Possibly from getting burned by players exploiting the Morrisonian (or was it Moore in Supreme?) "his powers are so poorly defined as to be almost limitless!" effect. Certainly nothing as crunchy as MnM or Hero. Unisystem or d6, at the crunchiest.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Still too cruncy!

And a 4 round Lexicon is probably too short.

[head58.livejournal.com]

No, I meant 4 waves of an 8 round lexicon. Sorry. Not clear.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I think you would be better off with a 26 round elxicon than 4 of 8. 4 dfferent lexcons would erode any continual narrative and get mre and mroe forced (and smaller and smaller player bases.

[ivan23.livejournal.com]

Have you checked out Capes at all? I know it's from the folks at the Seekrit Door, but it might be light enough to do what you want it to ...

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I did, I don't think it wowed me that much.

[ezrael.livejournal.com]

I ran something similar to this once.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

See first of all you are on the west coast. And second you already ran it, past tense. Thus doing me no good at all.

Poor, poor me.

[smoagendash.livejournal.com]

I'd definitely be up for this, but I'd need crunchy rules (MnM, probably). No offense, Jere, but I never could get into the swing of the nebulous systems of which you are so fond.

Also, I enjoy tactical combat. And blowing things up.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Crunchy rules are the death of wonder, this is my creed and to believe otherwise i to dishnor the emory of m forefatehrs (okay, maybe not that last bit)

[smoagendash.livejournal.com]

Yeah, especially since I know your father, and I sincerely doubt his emory would have any serious problems with crunchy rules.

As for crunch = death of wonder, well obviously I disagree, but I really don't want to argue about it.

(thoughtful pause)

Jere, out of curiosity, how often do you play in games in a non-referee/DM/Storyteller/Hollyhock God/whatever role? When you are simply a player?

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Slightly less than never but not as much as infrequently.

head58 tried to run a starwars game but that didn't get far for various reasons. We were doing one-shots for a while but that doesn't count ebcause theres little roo t work on player skills.

I'm a terrible player with very little experience at it.

[spiritseeker.livejournal.com]

Marvel meets Everway? is that what you're looking for here?

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

That could work. Except no Marvel universe. Oh how the Marvel universe bores me.

[jeffwik.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I was looking for players for this game a while back. Didn't get it off the ground.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I wasn't looking for it then. See timing is everything. Plus I'm fickle, I desire to be wooed.