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From: cdrigney@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Super Hero Role Playing Games
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Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 04:03:00 EST
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I'd like to hear more about Jim Gardner's
(jagardner@watmath.UUCP) cross-genre gaming with the Hero System.
For anyone else interested in such, you might look into Champions
Organization Book III: The Blood provides an excellent link
between Fantasy Hero and Champions, and Justice Inc with a bit
more work.  Danger International should also be possible,
although if your DI campaign doesn't have superheroes in it
you'll have to come up with a reason for having both that and
Champions.  I.e. Parallel worlds (either DI agents investigating
a mysterious "Project Vulcan" or volunteering for it, that turns
out to be a crosstime gate, or The Blood or the Superheroes
stumble over the DI world), or taking care of the heroes, i.e.
you run JI in the 30s, DI in the 50s when there are no heroes,
and Champions with the Heroes emerging in the 70s.  Conversely,
you could run Champions in the 40s and 50s, and have a reason for
them disappearing.  The DI agents might even be investigating
why.

If the GM were good enough, I think this could make a great
scenario run in parallel, with one set of PCs in each genre,
running one genre in each session, but interweaving the
storylines to counterpoint each other.  In particular, you have
to be skillful to be able to run events that will become history
already known by the future characters, without removing the
suspense or characters' free will.

I've wanted for a long time to run a DI scenario where one of the NPCs
claims to be a magician, and where the skeptical PCs keep thinking its
all done with tricks.

		--Carl Rigney
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