Saving the Day: Marvel Superheroes Roleplaying Campaign Update

After their dramatic rescue of all the people who were trapped in the Overton Warehouse fire, our little cadre of superheroes has become quite popular in Seatropolis. They're treated as heroes, and the smear campaigns appear to be a thing of the past. This is due not only to the dramatic rescue, but to the...

Pulling a fire out of the hat: Marvel Superhero Roleplaying Campaign update

My elaborate plan for the previous week's game having been smashed to pieces by the players' unforeseen decisions, this game session took a very different tack. We started with the aftermath of the heroes' unexpectedly quick smashing of an attempted ambush by a cadre of supervillains. Titanium, flush with success and dragging the severed torso...

The perils of planning: Marvel Superheroes Roleplaying campaign update

Let's start at the beginning, shall we? Well, not the beginning, but a beginning in medias res, as it were... Having restarted the Marvel Superheroes campaign after months of hiatus (one of the few good things to come from this garbagy coronavirus pandemic is that the daughter is home and we've got enough people in...

Menagerie (aka the Amazing Elephant Girl) – An origin story

After the second session of our superhero roleplaying campaign, my daughter decided to write something about her character's background. That old-school TSR-developed game system really helps fire up the imagination. Janey Nevitt turned into an animal for the first time when she was six years old. She had been walking hand-in-hand with her father in...

The Return of the Indestructible Girl – Or, this is why we play

Friends, THIS is why we play our geeky games. My son posted the following on his blog after our second Marvel Super Hero Roleplaying session. I'd link to it, but it's friends only, so he let me republish it here. Table-top RPGs are really fun. You get to make a character and interact with a...

The indestructible girl! Classic Marvel roleplaying campaign, week 2 (part 2)

Here's another flash-fiction story I wrote by way of setting up the second week of our Marvel superheroes roleplaying campaign. Wednesday, in the not too distant future Sidney Malloy puts her strawberry protein smoothie in the cup holder, wipes the sweat off her brow, and turns the treadmill up a notch. On the curved, wall-to-wall...