So, the Old Man of the gaming group (hey, he's pushing 50!) says one day "Jeff Dee is coming out with the latest edition of Villains & Vigilantes! Can we do a few sidebar sessions to play through the history of the game?"
And everyone is like "Sure!" and some of us are Googling "WTF is Villains & Vigilantes?" And he's like "We'll do V&V, then LL, then MP!"
Hey, I love me the SHRPG genre, and I love new games, so I'm in, despite having no idea what he's talking about. But, you know, I learned about Jeff Dee, Jack Herman, and Monkey House Games.
(Actually, it was like "Oh, I've heard of that Jeff Dee.")
So, we do a random chargen session, and I guess I got a crapload of powers, and then some cool stat-booster powers, and then he left me alone with a copy of the book, while he helped the others.
And I made me a Villains & Vigilantes 2.1 character, named her Callisto, and am looking forward to a game with her. Someday. Maybe. I don't know.
Then he reads thru my charsheet, and says "Classically Icarus cool, but there's no way I can convert this to LL or MP."
And I'm like "How is this my problem?" I mean, I'm looking over the sheet and thinking "I could model this in Champions. I think, maybe..."
So, he says "Just out of curiosity, what powers did you discard?" And I show him, and he rolls a few dice, says "Power Armor gives you extra goodies. What can you make of this?"
And so, I made my second ever V&V character. She's pretty badass, too :-) You can see her next week :-) And, apparently, he was able to convert this second one to Living Legends and Mighty Protectors, so I'm looking forward to finding out just how badass.
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