I was with you on the first three - but never played Torg or Amber. I have a soft spot for Teenage mutant ninja turtles and other strangeness... and tunnels and trolls to fill the gap.
I think I played T&T game books, but I don't think I ever played a traditional table game of T&T. And only dabbled a little in TMNT, though I remember character creation being quite fun.
Not a game system I mastered overnight (at all?), so I get that. As ever these things, a lot of my affection for these systems comes from the memories of adventures shared and people played with, rather than the mechanics.
I never played DC Heroes, despite my love for DC, for one main reason: Champions was just better! I played Star Wars, but didn't really enjoy it. D6s weren't a problem for a Champions player, but I felt like we were just pretending to have anything to do with Star Wars, it just felt like a generic sci-fi to me... I never actually played GURPS either, though the main reason was that I used to play a lot of The Fantasy Trip at school, and GURPS was just TFT with one more stat and lots more options. I had no interest in TORG. I never played Amber because I never read the books. My favourite old RPG came out in 1993: SLA Industries. Thanks to the recent Kickstarter, SLA Industries is back with a second edition, and I'm running the second session this evening.
Thanks, Richard. A lot of this is going to come down to personal experience -- I thought d6 Star Wars gave a loose framework for lots of action packed adventures, that felt very Star Wars to me, but with a different group at a different table, I could see it going the other way. Champions I only ever dabbled in and never really connected, but again, could just have been the group and the game we played. As for SLA Industries, that's just not a setting or genre that holds any appeal for me, so I've never even tried it!
@@StorycastRob I played first edition Champions a few times with friends from school, but they weren't into superheroes like I was, so it fizzled. Later I was playing and then running rolemaster, and one of our group also belonged to a club where a new Champions game was about to begin. I joined the game and created a terrible third edition character who did not mix well with the mostly powergamed characters around the table, but I still loved it! A second game started, and spun off into a home game that lasted years after the original game died, and I joined a second home group where we played Champions, Cyberpunk, Cyber Hero, and a long campaign of Fantasy Hero, so for a few years I was really playing an awful lot of Hero system games! I ran other Champions games and Aberrant after that, but didn't get to play at supers again until Heroclix came out, where I always preferred to use DC characters when possible, even if they weren't as plentiful or as good as the Marvel options, as you may remember?
Remember? I'm still suffering it! Not had much chance to play clix because of the Reason this last year, but I've got a group in Helsinki I played with in the before times.
@@StorycastRob I've not played clix since the last time I played at Shepherd's Bush. I still have all the stuff I had then, and keep thinking I should ebay it, but I'm a collector/hoarder, and can't seem to let go (plus cataloguing everything would take days!)
I was with you on the first three - but never played Torg or Amber. I have a soft spot for Teenage mutant ninja turtles and other strangeness... and tunnels and trolls to fill the gap.
I think I played T&T game books, but I don't think I ever played a traditional table game of T&T. And only dabbled a little in TMNT, though I remember character creation being quite fun.
Ah DC Hero’s... still have no clue how it works 😂
But you had fun, right?
I've played DC and I only lasted one session because I was too confused 😂
Not a game system I mastered overnight (at all?), so I get that. As ever these things, a lot of my affection for these systems comes from the memories of adventures shared and people played with, rather than the mechanics.
I never played DC Heroes, despite my love for DC, for one main reason: Champions was just better! I played Star Wars, but didn't really enjoy it. D6s weren't a problem for a Champions player, but I felt like we were just pretending to have anything to do with Star Wars, it just felt like a generic sci-fi to me... I never actually played GURPS either, though the main reason was that I used to play a lot of The Fantasy Trip at school, and GURPS was just TFT with one more stat and lots more options. I had no interest in TORG. I never played Amber because I never read the books. My favourite old RPG came out in 1993: SLA Industries. Thanks to the recent Kickstarter, SLA Industries is back with a second edition, and I'm running the second session this evening.
Thanks, Richard. A lot of this is going to come down to personal experience -- I thought d6 Star Wars gave a loose framework for lots of action packed adventures, that felt very Star Wars to me, but with a different group at a different table, I could see it going the other way. Champions I only ever dabbled in and never really connected, but again, could just have been the group and the game we played. As for SLA Industries, that's just not a setting or genre that holds any appeal for me, so I've never even tried it!
@@StorycastRob I played first edition Champions a few times with friends from school, but they weren't into superheroes like I was, so it fizzled. Later I was playing and then running rolemaster, and one of our group also belonged to a club where a new Champions game was about to begin. I joined the game and created a terrible third edition character who did not mix well with the mostly powergamed characters around the table, but I still loved it! A second game started, and spun off into a home game that lasted years after the original game died, and I joined a second home group where we played Champions, Cyberpunk, Cyber Hero, and a long campaign of Fantasy Hero, so for a few years I was really playing an awful lot of Hero system games! I ran other Champions games and Aberrant after that, but didn't get to play at supers again until Heroclix came out, where I always preferred to use DC characters when possible, even if they weren't as plentiful or as good as the Marvel options, as you may remember?
Remember? I'm still suffering it! Not had much chance to play clix because of the Reason this last year, but I've got a group in Helsinki I played with in the before times.
@@StorycastRob I've not played clix since the last time I played at Shepherd's Bush. I still have all the stuff I had then, and keep thinking I should ebay it, but I'm a collector/hoarder, and can't seem to let go (plus cataloguing everything would take days!)