Recent content by crauscher

Updated to Platinum.

My experience shows that most starting characters are still quite nebulous in the player's mind, and focusing on 'wants' lets them begin play sooner than trying to develop a full backstory in a world they don't know yet. I enjoy those moments when a character shifts their focus in a new...

I have a slightly different take on the "want" vs "need" -- it is only when we are faced with the inevitable costs of obtaining our wants that we are forced to examine why wanted it in the first place (thus leading to the shift to "need".) This doesn't mean that the want was a lie, rather that...

Any thoughts on adapting Traveller to work for a Supers game? I kinda like the idea of using a lifepath approach to discovering how they obtained their powers as well as their alter-ego, and applying individual modules as desired for the different sources of superpowers (mutations, machines...