Enemies + High frequency of appearance + 6 players

[robkelk]

Originally Posted by reverse_atomic_roger

Any ideas?

Can the enemies forward the main plot by their actions?

Can the enemies form an "evil league of evil" and show up all at the same time? (This isn't completely realistic, but it works in pulp and four-color-supers...)

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by reverse_atomic_roger

Hi all.

Does anyone else have a problem with enemies bought as disadvantages taking over the game?

There are detailed guidelines for this in GURPS Supers. But basically, if you don't want enemies to take over the game, limit frequency of appearance to 6 or less for most, or 9 or less for strongly recurrent ones. With seven players each with an enemy on 6 or less, you'll have about 50% of sessions with no enemy showing up: (196/216)^7 = .5065.

Bill Stoddard

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by whswhs

There are detailed guidelines for this in GURPS Supers. But basically, if you don't want enemies to take over the game, limit frequency of appearance to 6 or less for most, or 9 or less for strongly recurrent ones. With seven players each with an enemy on 6 or less, you'll have about 50% of sessions with no enemy showing up: (196/216)^7 = .5065.

Bill Stoddard

Fewer if you band the enemies into the Masters of Revenge and roll for them collectively.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Fewer if you band the enemies into the Masters of Revenge and roll for them collectively.

Yes, that's one of the options that GURPS Supers analyzes.

Bill Stoddard

[gilbertocarlos]

For enemies being a disadvantage they need to make things worse off. So, they will attack when there is a battle occurring already, they will see you entering the city and use his connections to forge a crime and get you arrested, and if 5 players have enemies, all of them can unite and attack all at once, while at the same time they still need to get to the main villain in one week.

[ericbsmith]

OTOH, an enemy of a single PC is only out to get that one PC. He may go to great length to try to separate the PC from the pack so that he can take him on one on one and not have to deal with his friends. He may even try to turn one of the other PC's against his target, or may use the other PC's without their knowledge.

[Figleaf23]

Originally Posted by reverse_atomic_roger

Hi all.

Does anyone else have a problem with enemies bought as disadvantages taking over the game?

I would, if I allowed it. But I don't, and I advise you to do the same.

[GodBeastX]

I work enemies into the story with frequency deciding what sort of part they play in the story and scope of power for how difficult it'll be to deal with. Some enemies can be treated as an encounter for certain activities.

For example, I run a fantasy campaign where everyone has a group as enemies. This just means when I'm rolling for encounters, I include their enemies. One person has a custom enemy that happens to be their sibling that wants them dead for certain reason. That one made more sense as a story element than a random encounter.