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<blockquote data-quote="JPL" data-source="post: 2696935" data-attributes="member: 1964">Absoultely --- &quot;they take it at some known point, strip out everything they don't like, and run what's left with the understanding that nothing that happens in the comic books matters any more.&quot;&nbsp; Every group that plays in some sort of established ongoing fictional universe --- Marvel or Trek or Buffy --- runs a sort of &quot;parallel universe&quot; version of the setting, ignoring or contradicting new events or even established continuity as they see fit, and adding new elements [the PCs and their adventures, for starters]. I dunno...maybe I'm assuming that my own personal preferences are widely shared.&nbsp; To me, the best option is to set the action in a relatively isolated area of the established world --- Marvel LA, for example.&nbsp; That way, I can bring in the Wrecking Crew or SHIELD or Rocket Raccoon if I need to, but the PCs are still the biggest heroes in town, instead of cleaning up when the Avengers, the FF, the X-Men, the New Warriors, Wolfpack, etc. are all otherwise occupied.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JPL, post: 2696935, member: 1964"] Absoultely --- "they take it at some known point, strip out everything they don't like, and run what's left with the understanding that nothing that happens in the comic books matters any more." Every group that plays in some sort of established ongoing fictional universe --- Marvel or Trek or Buffy --- runs a sort of "parallel universe" version of the setting, ignoring or contradicting new events or even established continuity as they see fit, and adding new elements [the PCs and their adventures, for starters]. I dunno...maybe I'm assuming that my own personal preferences are widely shared. To me, the best option is to set the action in a relatively isolated area of the established world --- Marvel LA, for example. That way, I can bring in the Wrecking Crew or SHIELD or Rocket Raccoon if I need to, but the PCs are still the biggest heroes in town, instead of cleaning up when the Avengers, the FF, the X-Men, the New Warriors, Wolfpack, etc. are all otherwise occupied. [/QUOTE]

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