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John Galactus Offline The Master Cylinder Posts: 6693 Location: Selden Joined: Apr 11^th, 2009 Gender:	A new house rule! Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 12:28am	Print Post
	A new house rule, to be implemented immediatley; No sugar or caffeine for Marshal Strong!

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The Cougar Avenger Offline Roll 1d20 against ... Posts: 438 Location: McKinney, TX Joined: Oct 4^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: A new house rule! Reply #1 - Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 11:20am	Print Post
	lol

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Duroon Avenger Offline I Love V&V! Posts: 376 Location: Gresham, OR Joined: Aug 25^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: A new house rule! Reply #2 - Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 11:56am	Print Post
	This is more along the lines of my kind of house rules lol! 1. If you spend all of someone else's turn in combat telling them what they should do when your turn comes up you are considered to have been too busy to have prepared an action of your own and get skipped. 2. No arguing rules at the table with the GM. Argue about it after the game, or between sessions via email.


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Majestic Justice Leaguer Offline Guardian of Earth Posts: 5179 Location: Seattle Joined: Jun 8^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: A new house rule! Reply #3 - Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 1:39pm	Print Post
	The "no arguing" rule reminds me of a method I used once to cut down on the arguing. One of our players (we call him Argument Man occasionally) was constantly bickering about various rules. I came up with an "Argument Card" (a simple 3x5 card) that was given to each player. Much like the little red flag in football, each player got one opportunity to contest a ruling. If they contested and got shot down, then they've used up their one opportunity. Of course most players (nearly all?) didn't use theirs at all, and it made players think twice before squawking.


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John Galactus Offline The Master Cylinder Posts: 6693 Location: Selden Joined: Apr 11^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: A new house rule! Reply #4 - Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 2:56pm	Print Post
	I am pretty lucky, I can't recall the last time there was an argument over rules. I would like to think its due to my fair and consistant GMing...

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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 5284 Location: On High Joined: Apr 20^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: A new house rule! Reply #5 - Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 5:40pm	Print Post
	Duroon wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 11:56am: This is more along the lines of my kind of house rules lol! 1. If you spend all of someone else's turn in combat telling them what they should do when your turn comes up you are considered to have been too busy to have prepared an action of your own and get skipped. 2. No arguing rules at the table with the GM. Argue about it after the game, or between sessions via email. I like these, alot.

	"There is no such things as a dangerous weapon, only dangerous men." "Nemo me impune lacessit"
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Majestic Justice Leaguer Offline Guardian of Earth Posts: 5179 Location: Seattle Joined: Jun 8^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: A new house rule! Reply #6 - Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 6:45pm	Print Post
	John wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 2:56pm: I am pretty lucky, I can't recall the last time there was an argument over rules. I would like to think its due to my fair and consistant GMing... You're probably right, but I think it comes down to the players. In most circumstances, and with most games, I/we don't have any arguments. But with V&V - probably because so many things are wide open and open to interpretation - certain personalities are prone to question everything. "But I don't think that's the way my Gravity Control works when it interacts with..."


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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 5284 Location: On High Joined: Apr 20^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: A new house rule! Reply #7 - Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 6:57pm	Print Post
	Majestic wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 6:45pm: John wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 2:56pm: I am pretty lucky, I can't recall the last time there was an argument over rules. I would like to think its due to my fair and consistant GMing... You're probably right, but I think it comes down to the players. In most circumstances, and with most games, I/we don't have any arguments. But with V&V - probably because so many things are wide open and open to interpretation - certain personalities are prone to question everything. "But I don't think that's the way my Gravity Control works when it interacts with..." I think a lot of people forget that 1) it's only a game 2) it's supposed to be fun, and that arguing takes the fun out of it 3) sometimes just go along with it, if it helps move the storyline along. If they're going to get all bent out of shape about "losing" then perhaps they should look for a different type of genre, as superheroes do loose battles, as part of the story.

	"There is no such things as a dangerous weapon, only dangerous men." "Nemo me impune lacessit"
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Paul Galactus Offline It's all about blowin' shit up. Posts: 1696 Joined: Apr 18^th, 2009	Re: A new house rule! Reply #8 - Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 8:58pm	Print Post
	John, in my opinion, every time one of my characters died, you screwed up a rule.

	Anticipation of death is worse than death itself -- Steven Segal
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Duroon Avenger Offline I Love V&V! Posts: 376 Location: Gresham, OR Joined: Aug 25^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: A new house rule! Reply #9 - Jul 4^th, 2010 at 12:52am	Print Post
	I have a group of players, not my V&V group, that always questions rules that they feel don't fit in with how things really work. I didn't ask any of them to join my V&V group when I started it of course. I did just run them through the adventure Secret in the Swamp to give our regular GM a bit of a break. We stretched it out by about three hours with constant arguments about how things work of course but managed to get through it. Two of those players also have no clue how to act like a superhero.


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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 5284 Location: On High Joined: Apr 20^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: A new house rule! Reply #10 - Jul 4^th, 2010 at 1:33am	Print Post
	Duroon wrote on Jul 4^th, 2010 at 12:52am: I have a group of players, not my V&V group, that always questions rules that they feel don't fit in with how things really work. I didn't ask any of them to join my V&V group when I started it of course. I did just run them through the adventure Secret in the Swamp to give our regular GM a bit of a break. We stretched it out by about three hours with constant arguments about how things work of course but managed to get through it. Two of those players also have no clue how to act like a superhero. Apparently they have no clue about suspending reality, and just going with the flow. It's a FANTASY game, where people shoot lasers out of their eyes, at 60 foot tall alien monsters. People shouldn't worry to much about reality, as long as it makes for a good story, and fun gaming session.

	"There is no such things as a dangerous weapon, only dangerous men." "Nemo me impune lacessit"
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Duroon Avenger Offline I Love V&V! Posts: 376 Location: Gresham, OR Joined: Aug 25^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: A new house rule! Reply #11 - Jul 4^th, 2010 at 11:38am	Print Post
	There are players from my GURPS group of course, If your not familiar with GURPS it is a super number crunching ultra realistic system. Combat rounds last one second, and there are skills for everything.


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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 5284 Location: On High Joined: Apr 20^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: A new house rule! Reply #12 - Jul 4^th, 2010 at 2:05pm	Print Post
	Duroon wrote on Jul 4^th, 2010 at 11:38am: There are players from my GURPS group of course, If your not familiar with GURPS it is a super number crunching ultra realistic system. Combat rounds last one second, and there are skills for everything. I'm quite familiar with it, and don't particularly like the system for certain genres, super hero gaming being one of them. But they did put out some fun little GURPS Supers source books. Super Scum being one of them (you can pick it up on the cheap, and the power levels are pretty easy to convert over to V&V).

	"There is no such things as a dangerous weapon, only dangerous men." "Nemo me impune lacessit"
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John Galactus Offline The Master Cylinder Posts: 6693 Location: Selden Joined: Apr 11^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: A new house rule! Reply #13 - Jul 4^th, 2010 at 2:17pm	Print Post
	Wow, lots of responces for me just goofing on Marshal Strong!

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John Galactus Offline The Master Cylinder Posts: 6693 Location: Selden Joined: Apr 11^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: A new house rule! Reply #14 - Jul 5^th, 2010 at 12:46pm	Print Post
	Paul wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2010 at 8:58pm: John, in my opinion, every time one of my characters died, you screwed up a rule. Yes if you mean ignoring the actual die rolls, and from behind the screen claiming it was another "1, double damage", then yes, I screwed up. Lots!

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