Fellow Walks Into a Psychiatrist

[tracker7]

Based on the character and story ideas we batted around on Tuesday night, I think this upcoming Star Wars game is going to be a good time.  I abandoned the Jedi aspect of my character idea - probably for the best, as two of the other three PCs are Force-users.  The Clone Wars is going to feed my lightsaber-swinging need for a while, I guess.

Wednesday night's Spycraft game almost didn't come together, but I'm quite glad that it did.  We ended the session with the two soldiers inside an office building under siege by 15 Russian mobsters, while the three other agents watched more-or-less helplessly.  The entire team is about to learn the cleansing power of high explosives, I think.

Justice Society of America is getting close to the end of the Gog/KC-Superman story arc, and it's been a pretty good run, I think.  There have been some off-putting moments, but they're few.  And I've got some bad feelings about where this is all going to go, particularly based on the "And evil shall inherit the Earth" poster from a while back.

I picked up Secret Invasion #8, having gotten a decent feel for the rest of the series and unwilling to wait for the trades to see the whole thing.  There were a few surprises, and I do see where the griping has come from.  I'm along for the Dark Reign ride, at least in the Invincible Iron Man and War Machine titles - and if Fraction's work so far is any indication, "World's Most Wanted" will be very enjoyable.

Planning to spend a good chunk of tomorrow in libraries.  I need to study up on submarines.  Maybe meeting with Mom&Dad for dinner.

Comments

[metallian.livejournal.com]

It can be fun to play the "normal" character amidst a bunch of force users. Han Solo is popular, after all!

And, d'oh, I forgot to call the comic shop this week...I hope none of the SI crossovers sold out...

[cybogoblin.livejournal.com]

It can be fun to play the "normal" character amidst a bunch of force users.

I'll second that. I'm also playing Star Wars at the moment and managed to prove myself more competent (in one way) than the Jedi by clearing a room of troopers with a single grenade.

Actually, now that I think about it, my characters tend to do a lot better with grenades than anything else. Hmm.

[metallian.livejournal.com]

I will say, the only major deficiency with my character is that her grenades and autofire are less effective against large numbers of opponents than Force Slam and Move Object (provided a sufficiently large object). This means she has trouble with large quantities of Stormtroopers, who will eventually crit or hit her with coordinated fire. It's even worse when they don't stand close together...

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

The Jedi were the big shining lights, sure, but there were lots more stories to tell than just theirs. Lightsaber-wielding legally-authorized representative of the Republic sounded like fun (and still does), but so does scion of a frontierward noble house who believes in the Republic and will have to balance conflicting responsibilities without trusting to the Force.

My shop had a big stack of Dark Reign previews at the counter; I don't think I'm going to pick up anywhere near the entire run of them, but this is going on my probably-in-trades list. Hope you didn't miss any crossovers at your shop!