{"id":1103,"date":"2002-01-28T11:03:58","date_gmt":"2002-01-28T11:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2009-06-30T22:15:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:15:14","slug":"up-up-and-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2002\/01\/up-up-and-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Up up and away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we started playing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/dave\/rpgs\/jsquad\/\">Justice Squad<\/a> campaign this weekend.  Lots of fun.  Here&#8217;s my personal good\/bad\/ugly list.<br \/>\n<strong>Good<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; I&#8217;ve never been in a game GM&#8217;d by Dave, whom I&#8217;ve heard only good things of. No surprise, his style is different than mine, but great fun for everyone, and I always enjoy watching other people work and taking mental notes.<br \/>\n&#8211; Supers.  It&#8217;s just fun.  Maybe it&#8217;s not Star Wars, but I&#8217;m not PLAYING Star Wars, am I?  One of the really long-running and fun games I played in in college was a Champions supers game, and I just love the feel of calculating knockback on a hex map.  Whee.<br \/>\n&#8211; Rules.  I&#8217;m pissy about BESM most of the time, but I worked my ass off on figuring out a workable version until SAS (supers from goo) comes out, and it seems to be working.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bad<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; I can&#8217;t min\/max a character they way I could in Champions (nor to I want to anymore), but I know the rules better than probably anyone else playing (for now).  While the characters themselves are all very cool concepts and built on the same points, there was a certain feeling disparity between them, simply because of design efficiency.  This isn&#8217;t to say we don&#8217;t all have a few points &#8216;wasted&#8217; on things like Painting or Horseback riding, but after the play-test and redesign, I felt like the character&#8217;s I designed were a little overwhelming.<br \/>\n(Offside of this: I&#8217;m also helping Dave by statting out some bad guy NPC&#8217;s &#8212; so I guess I&#8217;ll reap what I&#8217;ve sown in the long run.)<br \/>\nAll in all, really fun though, and I&#8217;m looking forward to the next installment a great deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we started playing the Justice Squad campaign this weekend. Lots of fun. Here&#8217;s my personal good\/bad\/ugly list. Good &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actual-play","category-table-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}