Thoughts on First Session

[formorach69]

Some truely outstanding advice from everyone, thank you all for your help with this. I now feel much more confident for the next session (just need to REMEMBER the advice now! )

I completely forgot about giving the player a PP to get the Doom dice back! Doh!

It seems Grandstanding could be a little too powerful, no? For example, Tiger Shark has d12 Strength. If he grandstande for two turns, the Doom Pool would have the necessary 2d12 to shut the scene down. I know I mentioned that I couldn't build the Doom Pool quick enough before all the suggestions, but this seems a little too quick for me.

Maybe if the villains have to roll against a standard TN of 10 before choosing their effect dice, this may bring the dice down a little on average? Any idea?

On the whole some great suggestions. Once again, thank you everyone!

[Udo Femi]

When the baddie granstands, he makes an action roll then drops his Effect Die in the Doom Pool.

This implies that your villain is not inflicting stress or creating complications.

If you chose to use d12 as Effect die, you might have a low Total which can be overruled by a PC Reation roll (and then your baddie gets Stressed if the player uses a PP to counter-attack.

See, if you granstand too much, you end up smashed in the mouth. From a narrative point of view it can be fun (the stupid baddie shows off too much and get whacked by the heroes) and it builds pretty much your Doom Pool.

Sacrifice of a NBC pawn at the beginning of a session to prepare future badness when they confront the arch-nemesis: priceless.

[Spatula]

In addition to what the others have said, the 2D12 rule is there to end a scene if people feel it's not going anywhere. You don't have to end the scene just because you get 2D12 in the doom pool.

I mean, what kind of comic scene is that? The heroes race to take down Tiger Shark while he... rips up the pavement for 2 actions? And then the scene ends?

EDIT: That said, if you are looking to end the scene, some grandstanding is a good way to get you there. Maybe the villains are inflicting all sorts of crazy collateral damage and then escape as the heroes try to deal with that.

[Duck Call Lass]

When the baddie granstands, he makes an action roll then drops his Effect Die in the Doom Pool.

This implies that your villain is not inflicting stress or creating complications.

If you chose to use d12 as Effect die, you might have a low Total which can be overruled by a PC Reation roll (and then your baddie gets Stressed if the player uses a PP to counter-attack.

I don't roll for grandstanding most of the time, because most of the time grandstanding has been random chaos instead of something targeted at the players. So I just drop the appropriate die into the doom pool as per this thread.

[Mailer33]

You don't shut the scene down until you are ready. You'll want to kick the crap out of the heroes for awhile first.

Shutting the scene down is good for things like letting your bad guy escape just before players take him out, or finishing off a scene that is basically over, without rolling out those last few punches.

Most villains won't be able to drop more than a d10 in there anyway.

[figurefour]

Yes, I forgot about keeping your spent doom dice by giving a plot point

Keep in mind, you can only do this when spending Doom to add dice to a roll, not ANY time you spend Doom.

[Mailer33]

Good to know--I was planning on keeping more of my doom dice with pp handouts, so I'll keep that in mind.