Comments on: The S.C.R.U.B.S. System

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:12:30 +0000

@chipsnopotatoes: the system is designed to penalize story arcs where certain characters appear without being really deeply invoved in the story. I believe the logic is that when those particular individuals are major characters, they’re there for the purpose of being major characters that are integral to the storyline. In stories where they’re minor characters, they’re there for the purpose of Bat-angst or as “Look! We put in X! X fans, rejoice!”

By: Blake

Blake — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:09:19 +0000

When I saw the acronym, I initially thought it stood for Screwy Crazy Ridiculous Unbearably Bad Science.

By: chipsnopotatoes

chipsnopotatoes — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:04:21 +0000

um. not sure i understand the scoring on the sidekicks. how do you differentiate a characted being “involved” vs “half the storyline”? why is one higher than the other?

do you still use this rating system?

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:38:21 +0000

I still bet HUSH is higher.

Maybe I should add a “may not be compatible with Elseworlds”, but I’m not sure DK2 is actually an Elseworlds

By: Steven Berg

Steven Berg — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 16:18:07 +0000

I was going to calculate the SCRUBS rating for DK2, but at +6 per character it must be somewhere far above 50.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:35:34 +0000

6 points per character, so Green Lantern, Aquaman, and Flash would be +18.

By: Steven Berg

Steven Berg — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 10:26:38 +0000

“+6 points if any other JLA member is involved.”

Is that +6 per character, or just +6 if one or more characters are involved?

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 04:05:12 +0000

But that's the beauty of the system, with SC.R.U.B.S. you can adjust the modifiers to reflect your own tastes!! H and David: Reduce the Batwoman penalty to +3, making her equivalent to Batgirl (Barbara Gordon); or to +2, making her the equivalent of Nightwing. Rick: Add this modifier to the Advanced SC.R.U.B.S. list: Penciled by artist/artists whose best work was in Grendel (+10)

By: Isaac

Isaac — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 02:07:51 +0000

All in good fun. The DC Comics Present: Batman scored good and low, despite 2 Batmans and a number of villains, one new. Nice system.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:11:55 +0000

Huh, after reading City of Light, I see that it bucked your system. That series was easily one of the worst Bat stories in the last few years and it only got an 18 on your system. *shrug* nothing is perfect, though.