review: Noir

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

reference: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=1127

[42]

I wasn't expecting this to get posted so soon. I guess I can't complain.

[JP Dogberry]

I played half a Noir game (One session out of a game where the second session never happened). I really liked it, and looking at the book, I really liked it too.

[42]

Are you sure you are refering to the same game. There is a Noir rpg out there, published by Archon Games. The book I reviewed wasn't that. It was a setting suppliment for the Mutants and Masterminds RPG, published by Green Ronin.

I'm assumming when you say that you played a Noir game, you ment that you played the Noir RPG, not played in the Noir M&M setting.

[JP Dogberry]

No, it was a Mutants and Masterminds game. I played a fedora wearing detective who could jump very high and was strong enough to punch through a brick wall. Another player had fire summoning type stuff, while the femme fatale could fly and snipe and such.

[42]

Sounds like your GM didn't follow the book too closely.

The book clearly advises restricting flight and most other super-powers. It is meant to be for Power Level 6 characters at the highest.

I found that the entire book killed the fun of the Mutants and Masterminds system by forbidding most super-powers and super-feats.

I see the books dedication to Noir purity as its biggest downfall. Course, I am a huge fan of cross-genre games.