It is 100 degrees here today

Fortunately, it is expected to drop about ten tomorrow, and another five to ten the day after that.

Until then, there's the fan.

Champs Online: beta buzz

What I'm hearing is that character generation is fun and has a lot of neat features to customize your character down to the smallest detail, but the actual gameplay (once you get into it) is often clunky, awkward, and downright tedious.

"So... just like classic Champions," the snarky old tabletop gamer in me says.