you know, the idea occurs to me that your typical, low budget movie from the sci fi channel goes right hand in hand with the suggestions from the first two editions to look for plot hooks and the seeds of story ideas in tabloids... low budget movies don't have to be good to give you that flash of in...

larger, more complex combats pretty much require some fudging, or batch initiatives for NPC critters to work well, but the system (with a little on the fly simplifying) worked well even in the big end fight for "heart of darkness" i think my favorite aspect of it over the normal init syste...

virus. not the greatest movie, but fun, and the sort of thing i could definitely take inspiration from. one of the things i really do like about DC a lot is how it can be so many subgenres. it can be "x-files" type government conspiracy, it can be gothic horror (with guns!), it can be dyst...

I know this discussion goes back a ways, but I only just found the site... DC player who started 15 years ago with my brother's group when I moved in with him, just out of high school. The ref for that game had scrapped the init system for a while, but his perspective changed a bit when he started c...