Thanks to everyone who responded to my post. I did a lot of reading over the past few days, and I found Risus very compelling, although a bit too rules light for my tastes. I have decided to dodge the whole character creation thing altogether and provide pre generated characters. I may even use Bottle Rocket! He is amazingly close to the "Blue Rocket" that appears in 'The Tick: Heroes of the City' series. The reason that I decided to use pre-gen characters is that I expect the game to be a "revolving-door" with a different set of players each week. Each week the players will choose characters from a group that I decide are available. There will be no "advancement" per se, but I will give FUDGE Points to the players. These they will be able to keep with them from week to week and use in game or for out of game stuff, like getting first choice of character to play, chair to sit in or pizza toppings! If you would like to take a look at my first draft of FUDGE: The Tick go to http://w3.one.net/~frohlich/fudge/tick Thanks again for all the great input. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com