Freakazoid Step?

[Bob Schroeck]

re: That bat-like person in The Tick. I used to spell it in the proper German, but I was told by someone at some point that it is "correctly" misspelled as I did it -- because that's the way DM spells it. He apparently knows what it means in German, but not how to spell it... so he went for the closest-sounding words in English...

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Hmm... Doug would probably get on well with the brainier side of the biz, that (in its entirety) being American Maid and Arthur.

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You know, you may quite right. I wonder if I could write a Step that consisted entirely of the three of them talking in a bar while the Tick and Misspelled-Bat Man have an adventure outside...

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(A friend once proposed an extremely simple Tick RPG. There were only two stats: Intelligence and Usefulness. The Tick is of course very useful but none too intelligent; American Maid has a fair amount of both; Fledermaus is almost totally lacking in either.)

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You know, I like that. It actually would be quite workable...
Player: Okay, I try to pick up the car.
GM: Roll against your Usefulness.
Player: (rolls) Yeah! Made it by 10!
GM: You easily lift the car over your head.
Player: I throw it at the villain!
GM: Lessee... he's 30 yards from you, that's a distance penalty of ... -10. Roll.
Player: (rolls) Urk. Missed by 6.
GM: You drop the car. On your foot.

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Now, the original comic world would be an amusing place to visit... with its hundreds upon hundreds of wannabe super-heroes and pathetic handful of super-villains...

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You know what would be fun to visit, along those lines? "Normalman".
(Does anyone here even recognize this title?)

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.