Post by WildKnight on Jun 4, 2011 6:36:19 GMT -5
Unfortunately, that came from one of my real gaming experiences. A friend of mine thought it would be neat if we played a DC Universe game set in the 853rd Century (the ere of "DC One Million").
We knew it was set to be a short game, as this guy has never GMed anything that lasted more than 6 sessions, AND he told us that we could build any sheet we wanted with as many points as we wanted. Of the 6 players, 4 of them came to the table with sheets that could pretty easily have spanked the entire Justice League of the modern era (based on their sheets in the book from that game). I cooked up a super-futuristic Batman based on Batman Beyond who, although not as powerful as the others, had probably the most overall obnoxious "power"... his utility belt could produce just the right gadget for any given situation. Each and every time. Even if that gadget had to immitate an extremely expensive super power to get the job done.
Anyway, as you might imagine, this story is about player #6. Let's call him Geoff (because his name is Geoff). Geoff is typically not what you'd call a power gamer, but he comes up with wild concepts every game, and sometimes they're wildly OP as a side-effect. This is the guy who, in our first Eberron game, played a Troll (using the levels system from Savage Species so as to not be crazy over-powerful). That character sucked at everything, but Geoff loved every minute of it.
ANYWAY, Geoff typically won't show anyone his sheets. He bugs whoever the poor GM is with hours and hours of phone calls and emails to get his sheet just right, but he won't share with the players, and we're used to that.
What Geoff had brought this game was.... the original Superman. For those that don't know, in DC One Million Kal-El is still alive in the 853rd century. He lives in the Sun and is basically a god. Geoff's character sheet was like 4 pages thick. We should have known we were screwed.
The second week of the game we were fighting some kind of giant space brain thing that was actually powerful enough to challenge all of us in a serious way. Geoff got frustrated because the thing was immune to his reality-warping powers... so Geoff literally ended the universe itself, and just created a new reality wherein everything was exactly the same, except that there was no giant space brain thing.
We knew it was set to be a short game, as this guy has never GMed anything that lasted more than 6 sessions, AND he told us that we could build any sheet we wanted with as many points as we wanted. Of the 6 players, 4 of them came to the table with sheets that could pretty easily have spanked the entire Justice League of the modern era (based on their sheets in the book from that game). I cooked up a super-futuristic Batman based on Batman Beyond who, although not as powerful as the others, had probably the most overall obnoxious "power"... his utility belt could produce just the right gadget for any given situation. Each and every time. Even if that gadget had to immitate an extremely expensive super power to get the job done.
Anyway, as you might imagine, this story is about player #6. Let's call him Geoff (because his name is Geoff). Geoff is typically not what you'd call a power gamer, but he comes up with wild concepts every game, and sometimes they're wildly OP as a side-effect. This is the guy who, in our first Eberron game, played a Troll (using the levels system from Savage Species so as to not be crazy over-powerful). That character sucked at everything, but Geoff loved every minute of it.
ANYWAY, Geoff typically won't show anyone his sheets. He bugs whoever the poor GM is with hours and hours of phone calls and emails to get his sheet just right, but he won't share with the players, and we're used to that.
What Geoff had brought this game was.... the original Superman. For those that don't know, in DC One Million Kal-El is still alive in the 853rd century. He lives in the Sun and is basically a god. Geoff's character sheet was like 4 pages thick. We should have known we were screwed.
The second week of the game we were fighting some kind of giant space brain thing that was actually powerful enough to challenge all of us in a serious way. Geoff got frustrated because the thing was immune to his reality-warping powers... so Geoff literally ended the universe itself, and just created a new reality wherein everything was exactly the same, except that there was no giant space brain thing.
