I just made an 11-th hour donation towards Champions, a superhero system that we almost played back in college, but never did. I don’t remember much about the system, except that you gained perks by giving yourself weaknesses. I don’t know how easy or difficult it is to obtain the sourcebook, but since it’s the 30th of the month and other games have hundreds of dollars pledged, I don’t think that’ll be an issue.

I remember planning out a character for our never-to-be Champions game. It was to be set in the Marvel universe; my guy, Plus, was a Phalanx construct with a long backstory to explain his massive number of strength and weaknesses. So much of him was based in the X-Men crappola of the mid-90s, which, at the time, I had no idea was crappola. All I really remember was that Plus was partially created from DNA of Mr. Sinister, and therefore very susceptible to attacks from the Summers family.

-MiserableRainGod

@Cap

I thought it would come down to Dresden files and Firefly (and maybe swrpg), but I never expected people to go that overwhelmingly for the Call of Cthulhu. That game is older than most of the Nerdy Show cast and fans. (Also my old GM’s railroad plots would instantly halt forever if we couldn’t stumble on some obscure ‘trigger’ on several occasions so I’m biased.)

I’m starting to wonder if a quick browsing through the fans photographs would reveal hints of the ol’ Innsmouth look.

I am always for Dresden files. The game designer part of me absolutely loves the system. I also am a big fan of the books. I am as much of a browncoat as anyone else but the overall world doesn’t speak to me with the same potential that Dresden files does. Even pure mortals are pretty bad ass in their own way.