I picked up the MSH RPG for cheap from my local game store a little while back. My son (5) found it and started reading it. Today we played our first learn-to-play session. Spiderman successfully stopped a mugging and prevented Scorpion from rampaging through a hospital.

My son has a character sheet now. I'm such a proud Papa!

We haven't taught ours to read yet, but she sure does like the pretty dice.

She got a little plastic bow and arrow set with a hunting knife, and she's dressed herself in hunting clothes (a little beanie, cargo pants, a vest, furry boots).

Indeed, very cool. My nephew and nice play, I'm trying to get my nephew to GM he's 10. (She's 8 now, I keep saying she's 7).

Anyway I'm giving him one for Christmas, she didn't ask for any but she enjoys playing them with her brother, so maybe next year.

It was the dice that started it for us too. Since he's been two we've wrestled on the bed sometimes, and after he learned what dice were he made up a table for what each number could represent for a wrestling move. He memorized his table too. Daddy's little rules cyclopedia.

edit: He seems to have forgotten I ever said Game Master, so he calls me "The World Guy." I think I like that better anyway.

Mine's more like Daddy's little warrior. She's tried to slash my throat twice now, with her little plastic knife.

As long as she grows out of it before she can reach the kitchen drawers.

Wow... I wouldn't touch MSH these days, but can see how it'd be good (visually easy to navigate and characters the kids recognize.)

My oldest daughter's been reading a kids fantasy series called Deltora in addition to liking things like Harry Potter (and having played CRPGs). She's handling D&D pretty well.

MSH is a decent enough system. Extremely simple and easy to use. The task resolution chart is good for him. He's only 5, and while he reads great he isn't adding big numbers. Looking up up the result on a chart is much faster for him then adding a d20 + BAB + other bonuses. It's also an extremely unified system. In one session he threw a water tower, webbed someone to grapple them, grappled somone barehanded, and punched some folks all using the same ruleset.

Of course, we're just using the basic rules and pregenerated characters to make things easier.

We haven't added karma yet. I think I'll add that in after a little while. For those that don't remember, you can spend karma one-for-one to increase a die roll.

Quote from: Caesar SlaadWow... I wouldn't touch MSH these days, but can see how it'd be good (visually easy to navigate and characters the kids recognize.)
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I love MSH! You should LOVE it and SLEEP with it under your pillow! It is THAT good a game!!!

I wouldn't touch the other stuff (you know crap like Hero.)



(In spite of having written my own supers game, I'm running a Shadow X-men using MSH and likely to restart an old 'Spiderguys' game for two friends using it just for grins)

What supers game did you write? If the author would rather play a different system, I want to be sure and avoid it if I see it in a store.

Quote from: James McMurrayWhat supers game did you write? If the author would rather play a different system, I want to be sure and avoid it if I see it in a store.

No, didn't say I'd /rather/ use a different system. I said I /was/ using a different system. I prefer my own VASTLY, to the other, but some aspects (like running a game set in the Marvel Universe) is made easier by having the work done for you. That is I've got stats for several hundred MSH characters, put out in various supplements from Webs, and X-forces boxed sets, to the Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe.

The two games I'm using MSH for are: A Shadow X-men Team where many of the foes are drawn from X-men's rogue gallery (Apocalypse, Hybrid, Reverend Stryker).

The other one is Spiderguys for nostalgia sake I plan on keep their PC's in the original system it was run in, and will be using some of Spider-Man's foes (as well as some of their own.)

Just because I wrote the best superhero game ever*--doesn't invalidate other really good superhero games. Games like Truth & Justice, MSH, Marvel Saga, or even Godsend Agenda D6.

The best tool sometimes to drive screws, might be a screwdriver, or it could be a drill with an attachment. That doesn't invalidate the other tool.

Especially when the you are in a black out and have to screw something in--after all don't you like to screw in the dark?  :lol:



*For myself, you might like it, might not. It is however definitely the best one EVER for me.

Cool. I was just messing around with you (hence the smiley).

So are you going to say which game you wrote?

Quote from: James McMurrayCool. I was just messing around with you (hence the smiley).

So are you going to say which game you wrote?

Yes, yes. I missed the smiley last night. Sorry *L*


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The Moth Sample PC

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Looks cool. I've already got two different systems our group uses (MSH and Silver Age Sentinels) but if I happen to see it in print for cheap I'll probably pick it up.

I've previously stated: I'm against gamer parents playing RPGs with their kids.  It almost certainly guarantees that said kids will reject roleplaying games along with everything else from their childhood in an act of rebellion against you when they hit their teens.

It'll be "that stupid geeky thing dad likes, that he forced me to do when I was 9".

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