Marvelous Phile: Marvel Super Heroes RPG Live Game Play Chat is Good Karma
Hey, guys, Professor Bill here and it’s time to start off the Marvel Super Heroes Roleplaying Game the right way by revamping the old Marvel Philes that used to run out of Dragon Magazine. We’re going to call this the Marvelous Phile (to avoid copyright).
So let’s talk chat participation (because my editor, Doug, is the boss and he promised torture if I didn’t obey. (Do you think he reads these?) [EDITOR’S NOTE: Yes, Prof. He does ;)]
The overlay for Marvel Super Heroes RPG, created by War Eagle Keep.
Karma rules all in the Marvel game
Professor Bill opens the pages of the comic book universe in Season Two of Marvel Superheroes, produced by War Eagle Keep
So here are the rules:
First off, we’re going to have a leader in the chat. The leader will be determined by the first (non-player) person in the chat to answer a question posed by the Judge. The Judge reserves the right to have another player ask the question and it should be comic book related (preferably Marvel) but there is room for change.
The leader in the chat will have the advantage of controlling the chat karma pool for the day’s game. Hence, a new question will be asked weekly and everyone who is on time for the game gets the opportunity to vie for chat leader for that week.
Now, for the audience participation, I’m going to leave it up to the players. I’m going to have a range from 5-25 karma that can go into a “chat pool” and each player gets to choose how much they think the chat should get for each participation.
Example: A chat participation session is finished, the players each get to add anywhere from five (5) to twenty-five (25) points into the “chat pool” for later use. The player may not opt for more or less than the prescribed limits.
Note: It is expected that stingy players should be dog-piled if they are continually cheap while players who are consistently, too generous should be seen as weak and similarly dog-piled for trying to panhandle the chat.
The current chat leader is who determines how much karma each chat member can use during participation moments. It is entirely the leaders’ discretion how much karma will be dispensed, or not. Therefore, the non-leadership chat participants are encouraged to come up with creative uses for their actions.
Bonus!
The Universal Table determines the outcome of all the action in the Marvel Super Heroes RPG
Each player in the game is allowed, besides the contribution to the chat pool, one vote as to who the MVP of the session was in the chat. Whoever gets the most votes (the Judge will act as the tie-breaker) will get a “chat attack” bonus for use the next session.
This bonus will be determined by the Judge; however, your Judge is a merciful Judge. We’ll arrange something that will make you happy at the next encounter.
Hopefully, this will even out the chat to regulate your great power. More than this, it will encourage teamwork.
Next week, we’ll try to have some stats for players and or NPC’s. That’s all for this week.
Professor Bill
Class dismissed
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Join us for some karma
Marvel Super Heroes Roleplaying Game streams live on Mondays at 8 p.m. EST on the Nerdarchy YouTube channel.
Viewers in the live chat are encouraged to get their percentile dice and join in as Professor Bill leads Season Two players Nerdarchist Dave, Travis Boles from WebDM, writer and YouTuber Davae Breon Jaxon, Nerdarchy web editor Doug and staff writer Megan R. Miller through a street-level campaign featuring original superhero characters.
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Loki of Asgard
October 16, 2017 at 10:12 pmWhat about karma that you call out to a specific person
Professor Bill
October 17, 2017 at 2:50 amIf I call to a specific person, like I did with you earlier, that’s yours. No one can tell you what you can use that for.