So I've been poking around online looking for discussions, inspiration, useful items or documents for M&M this week and it is ... weirdly sparse in my opinion. The Facebook group has been slow for years, Reddit sees a post or two a day typically. RPG.net has some talk but not much in-depth about M&M specifically. The current version of the Atomic Think Tank is just strange - like Discord in some ways - mostly the negative ones. The old Think Tank was amazing for years - campaign ideas, rules discussions and debates, character write-ups ... the new one is just not in the same league. Echoes of the Multiverse is a non-official forum that is the closest thing remaining to the old ATT forums.
Seeing a lot less than I was hoping for I went to the next level of resources.
There is some limited activity on YouTube - these two channels have at least been recently active: Weeknight Hero and Power Level 10 but there is a lot of focus on explaining the mechanics more than anything which is cool but not exactly what I'm looking for. Still happy to see some activity though.
There are a few blogs out there but not one focusing heavily on M&M and many of those not been touched in years. Many of the results are more news-type blogs - again not really what I'm looking for. Heck, this blog is coming up pretty regularly in the first page or two of results which is a little disappointing as I haven' really focused much on the game myself recently.
Podcasts are not super common either. There were a bunch of actual-plays done in the first 5-10 years or so of 3E but it has really tapered off since then. Maybe it's not new enough anymore, I don't know.
I also went over to Obsidian Portal to see what kinds of M&M campaigns were happening there and the answer is "not many" - there were 4 that were updated in the last month, 6 in the last year. There are a whole bunch listed, going back most of 20 years, but a high percentage of them never made it to ten sessions, fizzling out in the single digits. This has me wondering if "single digits" is where the majority of RPG campaigns end, not just superheroes and not just on OP, but games that people start in general. I may have a separate post on that coming up now but here, for this particular inquiry, I found some inspiration in some interesting campaign ideas but not much else.
So what's going on here? Why is it so thin? Is there just not that much to talk about when a game has been out for 15+ years? Rules debates, maybe so, but how about campaigns? Surely people are out there running some games? Where is that chatter? I know it's not D&D but sheesh, it looks really light. Especially heading into a new edition this year!
Well, I'm spinning up the machine here, such as it is. I'll be posting about it a fair amount, both how the campaign goes and how the system and game line are working for us as well. I already know I like the game but it's been a while since we really put it to the test and I am looking forward to doing that.
Also, if anyone has a good resource that I have missed, please feel free to share it!
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