Sunday, March 15, 2009

Godlike in Basic Role Playing

I ran the start of the adventure "Donar's Hammer" last night from the game, Godlike, by Greg Stolze and crowd. However, I didn't do it with the Godlike rules. Instead I used BRP and the Super Powers section.

The guys had a blast, and have requested that we run that as the next campaign. That's a good sign.

As much as I enjoy BRP, though, I wish I had run using the Godlike/ORE rules, because I enjoy them so much (and then I wouldn't have to do running conversions in my head). I think that I will switch them to the ORE ruleset when I start this game. I believe the setting is the attractive part, with system as a secondary consideration, but I think that I will have a better handle and more open design environment with ORE. We'll see.

I have ended my run of Champions on Friday night, for the nonce. The character's ran into Takofanes, but I had him concentrating his power elsewhere, so he only killed a few of them before they stopped him (they had to use the whole team, including alternate characters). I think they may have experienced actual dismay at the thought that they might not be able to stop him, and the revelation that he was only using part of his power was terrifying.