'How long will it take to clean my apartment before my date gets here?' The Game master determines how long it will take in time to do something: Now, a game master could just wave his hand and say 'so and so happened,' but I always wanted something to resolve such effects mechanically - and sometimes, it actually makes a difference in an adventure. and runs into a supervillain, and curses because he is now going to miss his date. So, he runs across the ocean, gets home, throws a cold pizza into the oven set to two minutes, runs into the shower, cleans up, runs out, dries off, runs to the microwave, sees he still has a minute left, reads the newspaper and gets dressed, runs back, gets irritated that he still has to wait 15 seconds, impatiently waits, eats the pizza, runs towards his date with a cool 2 minutes to spare. He had a date with his girlfriend, who was in America, in 12 minutes. This was the first that did it.ДЄs an example: I remember reading an issue of the Flash, where he was in europe. I never saw a game that satisfactorily presented superspeed before DC Heroes. This engine allowed you to duplicate very hard-to-replicate powers. I can tell you right now, he can throw it into outer space. so you just double 10 feet 19 times, and get the distance superman could throw that car. You could look quickly on the chart to see how far 19 APs are, but its easily calculable too 0 aps distance is 10 feet. How far, then, could he throw a car? A car weighs 6 APs Superman has 25 so, 25-6=19 APs. So, superman could lift anything that weighed 25 aps or less.

When you want to lift something and throw it, you didn't need to look at your strength and then run a check on the poundage your character could lift a weight equivalent to his strength. The other element of genius in this engine was in the interaction of the AP system with itself. But, with such small numerical numbers, it makes it EASY to keep track of this! When you say the average human has a strength of 2 aps, and Superman has a strength of 25 aps, that means a LOT superman is 8388608 times stronger than the average human. Champions was much grainier than Marvel, but it broke down trying to reach high levels of power.ДC Heroes fixed all that. The old Marvel game, for instance, allowed the same thing, but with only a few steps defined by Excellent, Remarkable, etc. This allowed for something no other game I'd ever seen before could do: it allowed anywhere from high to low powered gaming, and it did so while keeping some level of graininess. So, a weight of 10 aps was twice that of 9 aps a strength of 15 aps was twice as strong as that of 14 aps. The first was that a particular value of APs was twice that of the previous value. The brilliance of this system was two-fold. So, not only character stats, but weight, distance, information, cash, volume. This was an ingenious engine in that it rated just about anything you could encounter as a value of APs, or Attribute Points. The second is the much more current Godlike.ДC Heroes was defined by an engine called the MEGS, or Mayfair Exponential Game System. Since then, I have delved into many different systems.Д«y far, though, I had two favorites. Of note, I believe DC Adventures by Green Ronin incorporated and expanded on a lot of ideas from Mayfair's release.When I first got into superhero roleplaying, it was via the now venerated HERO system, originally marketed as Champions. I do not personally recommend the built-in setting for Blood of Heroes. Sidekick is worth it for the adventure in the back and the sample characters. Special Edition has all the rules combined and clarified. Sidekick was intended to work with the non-Special Edition version of the Blood of Heroes rules (the OOP red-orange cover with a skull-faced guy), which is a misprinted reprint of DC 3rd Edition.

It has several well-constructed, but obscure and OOP supplements including a GM Screen with adventure, the Adventure Book 1 with adventures, and the Sidekick Sourcebook (definitely OOP) which has a lot of rules content duplicated in 'Special Edition', but also has a unique adventure. It was published by Pulsar Games it is technically OOP, but somehow still being laser printed for Amazon on autopilot. If you want updated rules for DC Heroes Third Edition, seek out the 'Blood of Heroes Special Edition' RPG (the Dave Dorman cover). I ran a three year bi-weekly campaign during college with many players passing through the group.

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