Big Download taps into Champions Online

by Matt Warner Jul 24th 2008 at 4:00PM

Filed under: Super-hero, Classes, Game mechanics, Lore, New titles, Champions Online

We give em' two big thumbs-up, and we hope you don't think super-hero and villain MMOs are overplayed. One very cool thing about Champions Online is that Hero Games will develop a tabletop version in tandem with the MMOG. The pen and paper ruleset will borrow heavily from the design-direction in Champions Online. You won't make any throw-away character sheets. Whatever character you play in the MMOG will be available to create and play in the pen and paper arena. But enough about the roll hacks.

That's long ways down the road, and our sister site Big Download is slowing it down for those looking to catch up. Their Champions Online feature, is a retrospect that details how it all came about: In it they delve into the mastermind and find out why Jack Emmert and Cryptic Studios decided to develop the comic property. Emmert's candidness might surprise you. The feature also details the bios and back stories behind some of the caped and masked crusaders from the Champions Online Universe.

Tags: big-download, champions, champions-online, co, cryptic, cryptic-studios, hero-games, jack-emmert, pen-and-paper, super-hero

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Skypp said on 4:53PM 7-24-2008

Now that is really cool. Being able to advance a character online when you can't get together for table top gaming, then printing it out and playing.

GirlGamer said on 12:41AM 7-31-2008

Awesome screenshot! Playing table top reminds me of the good old D&D days. But another, albiet alarming trend I noticed is the lack of female character selection on ComicBook MMOs. I've looked through a lot of the screenshots for the DC and other Superhero MMOs and maybe its just the screen shots but I havn't seen a single one. Not to sound like a feminist but really, why are they forgetting one of the biggest corners of the gaming market? They don't have to wrap everything in a pink frilly bow but common, we play too!