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Brian Rogers

I have to say, having had cause to pull out the re-release of the 1979 Villains & Vigilantes 1E I just adore this explanation of the games history....

In high school Jeff Dee intfroduced me to role-playing games. | felt | was experiencing something that could potentially influence the world as much as meditation or psychotherapy. Here is something, | thought, that could literally replace both organized religion and Hollywood. I devoured all the RPG rules | could get my hands on: Monsters! Monsters!, Metamorphosis Alpha, the original Traveller, En Garde!, Boot Hill and many others. Jeff had already begun his lifelong fascination with Professor M.AR. Barker's world of Tekumel. Jeff and | disagreed about whether Spider-Man could beat the Human Torch. Jeff said Spider-Man had fire- proof webbing. | maintained the Human Torch could “go nova”, potentially igniting the planet's atmosphere, destroying all life on earth. We statted both characters as best we could using the rules to Professor Barker's Empire of the Petal Throne, and played it out analog tabletop style. Sort of the same way they had that computer-simulated fight be- tween Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano. All 'l say is that Spider-Man moves pretty damn fast and it takes a long freaking time for the Human Torch to get hot enough to set the planet's atmosphere on fire. We started to make up new rules for other super powers. Like a statue being carved from a stone block, little by little Empire of the Petal Throne was chipped away. It was the superstructure holding things in place until our own foundation had been set, and what replaced it was an original creation.
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Alexander_Anotherskip_Davis

@SubplotKudzu so when are you doing the comparison/contrast of 1e/2e VnV

Brian Rogers

@Alexander_Anotherskip_Davis not sure. There are lots of similarities and lots of changes.

Alexander_Anotherskip_Davis

@SubplotKudzu were you part of the group on RPG.net about the VnV campaign which part of it was the Revolution?

Alexander_Anotherskip_Davis

@SubplotKudzu Nice to see you again. I am/ was Anotherskip, the one who rewrote every power in V&V based on your wildcard powers thoughts. Did you ever add more Yancy Street Gangs to the Revolution?

Brian Rogers

@Alexander_Anotherskip_Davis Hi! And just the Blood Boards as a Yancy Street gang, alas. But they served their purpose well.

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