I am pretty confident these days regarding the strength and utility of my/our ideas expressed at this site, so my Lab notions are shifting from organized curriculum and into "let's see where we can gte." In this case, we began with "tell me about your character" and moved on from there. For those who follow play accounts here, you'll spot my Shining Star and Helma's Skava.
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Posted by: Ron Edwards
02 Jul 2020
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Here is Ola's portrait of the Kosmonaut, his hero in our Champions Now game set in Göteborg (Gothenburg) in Sweden. The other hero is Havsmannen ("man of the sea") played by Ulf.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
30 Jun 2020
Games: Champions Now
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On Monday, my partner and I played our fourth session of Champions Now. This is our fourth or fifth series of twosies together, games that have included PBTA (not my favorite for one-on-one), narrative OSR Trophy Gold, and (our favorite) Spire: The City Must Fall.
Posted by: noah_t
24 Jun 2020
Games: Champions Now
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Here some examples of how we've been applying special effects in our game of Champions Now, set in Seattle during Spring and Summer of 2020.
Posted by: AlanRB
04 Jun 2020
Games: Champions Now
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Follow-up to this post, June 30, 2020
Posted by: Ron Edwards
14 May 2020
Games: Champions Now, The Whispering Vault, Zero, Extreme Vengeance, Dungeons & Dragons 1977, Bushido
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I've just had a session of Champions Now where a villain was knocked to 0 knockout. The players, being in control of the field for the moment, just blasted him a second time to ensure he did not wake up. Is that kosher by the rules? How is the rules about recovering the first time but not the second supposed to play out? It seems one can only really take advantage of the first waking up if your opponents are distracted. How does it play in your games?
Posted by: AlanRB
13 May 2020
Games: Champions Now
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I'm doing an actual play of Champions Now called Big Damn Hero. It's about powers being a blessing and a curse and takes place around the Witness Security program in Spokane, WA. The title hero is a super-villain turned state's evidence and put in the WitSec program.
Posted by: MadJay
18 Apr 2020
Games: Champions Now
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A year has passed and me and my friends decided to pick up our game prep where we left it. The good news: now I’ve got the actual Champions Now manual, in pre-publication form. (In case you don’t follow the Kickstarter, backers have already received a PDF with the rules; it’s not “finished” because there’s still art/comics under development.)
Posted by: Santiago Verón
04 Dec 2019
Games: Champions Now
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I invited my old friend Jared Sorensen, a.k.a. Memento Mori Theatrics, over to Sweden for a late-autumn getaway - and also to meet my new friend Simon Pettersson, a.k.a. (part of) Urverk Speldesign. The plan was a few days of unbridled RPG discourse, RPG play, unconstructed conversation, kid-wrangling, and meeting with some local players too. It worked!
Posted by: Ron Edwards
09 Nov 2019
Games: Champions Now, Legendary Lives, Nerver av Stahl
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A little while ago, I got excited and offered a "first come first served" hero creation session at the Kickstarter. Keith was the first, but since he was followed within microseconds by 11 others, I got more excited and said they could participate too. So Keith and I did two sessions to create Nebula, who began as a Starfire expy and rapidly became her own hero just as the rules are intended to encourage, and I conducted some email dialogues with six other people.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
31 Jul 2019
Games: Champions Now
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