ExTSR wrote:Somehow I'm not surprised that Marcus/Tonya didn't know that it's worth double that at least... nor that the descriptive text is full of unprofessional typos.
Badmike wrote:Ran across a mint stack of every Villains and Vigilantes supplement today at a used bookstore...since mine all have the character counters cut out, this was a nice find, as well as a nice waste of an afternoon reading through them. Great artwork by Jeff Dee and Bill Willingham, and pretty much all the adventures are top notch. This was the superhero game of choice we played every week the entire summer of 1986. It was perhaps the oddest campaign I have ever ran. First off, everyone playing had never, and I mean never read a comic book in their life, half the players were from my regular D&D group and half a couple of guys who had never played an RPG in their lives. The superheros were all weirdo teenagers ages 13-18 with an adult Chess agent running herd on them and trying to keep them out of trouble (sort of My So Called Life mixed with Hill Street Blues and Dirty Harry....they were always killing the villains at the end so they wouldn't come back and be a recurring foe!). Everyone named their heroes with an eye at poking fun at the genre...it was Raymaster, Mind Master, Ironmaster, Weapon Master and The Master (seriously). When they weren't scoring chicks in high school, sneaking beers from their parents fridges and taking the family cars out to do doughnuts in the neighbors lawns they were battling all the villains in the Most Wanted Pt. 1 supplement and killing them at the end. And to top it off we generally played each week with a bottle of Cuervo Gold on the table for shots during game time. Madness, but great fun! We played again the summer of 1990 for a few sessions and it was again inspired lunacy. The high point was the kids and some hired mercenary heroes killing all the bad guys who had taken over Crusader Citadel, THEN the good guys when they came back and told the kids to get lost. Raymaster quit the team in disgust when he demanded a salary and found he could make more in the real world working at McDonalds, and Mind Master became the first of the group to lose his virginity (at age 13) to a supervillainess he had tricked into seeing him as a Chippendale's dancer (he wasn't called Mind Master for nothing). All this and The Master managed to get killed by one of the weakest supervillains ever by a pie in the face that caused him to step in front of a speeding Mack truck and he forgot to turn intangible in time. Probably one of the greatest campaigns I have ever participated in....! Long live V&V!!!Mike B.
grodog wrote:I loved the V&V ads in Dragon, but never played. I've been on the lookout for a set on the cheap for awhile, but haven't made it a priority thus far. For Jeff Dee fans, he's still around and published a new, updated version of V&V in 2005, now called "Living Legends"---details at IO - The Modular Data Center Technology Leader
faro wrote:Oh, whoop-de-doo; anyone want a "mint" copy of Starfaring? That's what I get for typing over here instead of watching auctions...At least I'll have the pleasure of talking with our purveyor of illegally copied CAs again! Sorry 'bout that. Stupid auction format...
Marlith wrote:faro wrote:Oh, whoop-de-doo; anyone want a "mint" copy of Starfaring? That's what I get for typing over here instead of watching auctions...At least I'll have the pleasure of talking with our purveyor of illegally copied CAs again! Who did the copies of CA?
faro wrote:Oh, whoop-de-doo; anyone want a "mint" copy of Starfaring? That's what I get for typing over here instead of watching auctions...At least I'll have the pleasure of talking with our purveyor of illegally copied CAs again!
Kingofpain89 wrote:Had to post this even though I havent gotten it yet.http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1Pretty lucky that the item was in a store and didnt have the full description on it otherwise I would have never seen it. This is what bclarkie must feel like on a daily basis.
Marlith wrote:grodog wrote:I loved the V&V ads in Dragon, but never played. I've been on the lookout for a set on the cheap for awhile, but haven't made it a priority thus far. For Jeff Dee fans, he's still around and published a new, updated version of V&V in 2005, now called "Living Legends"---details at IO - The Modular Data Center Technology LeaderSpeaking of V&V...this is a cover I had not seen before. Is this the first printing or did I just overpay?http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1