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Forum Name: City of Heroes
Topic ID: 24
Message ID: 7
#7, RE: Anyone here looking forward to Champions Online?
Posted by Zox on Mar-19-08 at 06:04 PM
In response to message #4
LAST EDITED ON Mar-19-08 AT 06:05 PM (EDT)
 
>Final thoughts? I *might* check out a demo, but I didn't like the
>underlying system anyway (HERO System) and I'm guessing it's got a
>50/50 chance of being stillborn anyway.

I'm a big fan of the Champions RPG/Hero System. (At least I was back around 4th Edition; I don't know what they may have done with it since then.) I was never able to come up with a character idea, no matter how oddball, that couldn't be built under the Hero System rules. The only complaint I had was that combat could be painfully slow, but that seems to be an endemic problem with dice-and-paper RPGs.

The thing is, a system with that kind of flexibility _demands_ a quick-thinking, flexible gamemaster to make it work. And there's not a computer program in existence that could function as even a mediocre GM, unless there were major advances in AI last week and I missed the announcement.

So I suspect that while they may call it Champions, it won't really _be_ Champions, at least not in any form I'd acknowledge.

(Sorta like the "Clicky-Tech" Mechwarrior game--I don't care what the box says, it's _not_ Battletech.)