Crazy busy few days #exhausted #verysocial

Coming off a week of head-cold my weekend contained
- Friday night party (good)
- Saturday afternoon roleplaying (GMing) (challenging) (will get its own post)
- Saturday evening unplanned boardgaming at another friends (long and fairly intense Ticket to Ride Asia) followed by being included in cooked dinner.
- Saturday night party (faded fast) and Hall alarm
- Sunday morning
-- open up the Hall for Civil Defence USAR dog training
-- try to make up sleep and fail
- Sunday afternoon
-- tidy and close up most of the Hall after the training
-- more successful nap
-- finish closing up the Hall after photography
-- randomly spot and have catch-up with an occasional acquaintance while impulsively buying a burger from Burger Fuel

Have not had enough sleep at the right times of the day/night and aforementioned head cold seems to be staging a resurgence.

Running Marvel Heroic Roleplaying

Luke Cage, Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde) and Tigra "teamed up" to foil what appeared to be a bank robbery, later catching some alien reptiloids setting up an energy stabiliser in the now-empty vault and then called in the Avengers proper to deal with whatever was going to appear at the point it was targeting.

This was my first time running the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Game and was on behalf of a friend who while both a Marvel Universe expert and capable GM of other games wanted to actually experience the system before using it to run a campaign himself (Hi Quentin). Supers is not one of my strongest genres, but I do have a certain amount of experience learning and running new systems/mechanics.

As is usual in these situations I walked away with a significant list of things to go back to the book and check on.
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Overall I like the underlying Cortex Plus system - it is a bit heavy on the dice rolling but I also now feel that maybe action scenes are supposed to come to a resolution in fewer actions than I was anticipating.I went as far as re-skinning some of the mobs in the book and creating speciality characters and a Boss from scratch - although the latter didn't get to see play this time.

I will be running this scenario again just as soon as I can round up another batch of keen playtesters. I'm not ready to add it to my stable of regular one off / convention games yet.