Favorite Superhero types

[Dannyalcatraz]

Really anything from the TICK will work too.

I was part of a GURPS: Vampire playtest in which my character was a detective who was "embraced" by a powerful Brujah. He arose, superhumanly fast and strong, and impervious to most damage. He went mad, mad as a Malkavian.

Clearly, he was a superhero...and thus, Major Mosquito was born...

 

[jaerdaph]

I like to combine aspects from the superheroes I like and follow to create a character. For example, Desert Storm is a character I created for ICONS (he appears in Adamant Entertainment's Hero Pack I) who is part Ben Grimm (The Thing), part Captain America, and part Sandman (MARVEL, not DC/Gaiman) with a sprinkling of Indiana Jones and Lovecraftian mythos in his background:

Art by Dan Houser

 

[Jared Rascher]

This is one superhero concept I'd love to play:

What Do I Know? KnightErrantJR's Games and Geekdom Blog: Untapped Potential: Characters I'd Like to Play--Joshua Goodheart (Superhero Genre)

The interest for me is that both DC and Marvel have some interesting Western characters that have interacted with the superhero genre before, so it feels like a natural synergy.

(For anyone not wanting to go to the link, the character is basically a modern day guy that has inherited his ancestor's six shooter that lets him do supernatural things).

 

[TarionzCousin]

If you look at my stable of Supers PCs, you'll see a bit of everything: speedsters, bricks, PAGs, skill-monkeys, aliens, mutants and mystics. And of course, I mix & match. Just because one is playing a PAG, doesn't mean the armor's power source has to be technological- mages could make a suit of armor that does the same stuff but powered by mana...or life-force.

At this point, actually, I rarely design cookie-cutter Supers. I almost always have to put some kind of spin on the basic concept. The one exception I can think of is speedsters: most of mine are predictably designed.

If I want to look at your stable of Supers PCs, where could I find them?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

In a pen behind my house...hmmm....it's almost time for their slop!

 

[Relique du Madde]

The strangest super "hero" concept I ever came up with was El Palettero/Heladero, the Aztec God of Ice(cream). His powers were ice based, so he decided to use them as part of his cover identity...

I would love to use him in a game on enworld... but he would be too controversial if not used in as an NPC.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I've only got to play Mutants & Masterminds twice.

My favorite was a telepath. He had a raft of psionic powers, especially Domination with the "conscious" trait (the victim "fully capable" instead of a drooling wreck who could only follow his orders strictly) -- it worked like a charm. (B'dum! Clash!) Orders were passed telepathically, not verbally, and language was no object either.

Every single power he had used the "subtle" trait, which meant he had no displays, didn't scrunch up his face or take the standard pschic pstance, psychiatrists wouldn't notice that he'd done something afterward, and the victims would remember what they did but would actually think it was THEIR idea! Fortunately, he didn't abuse this latter point.

He was paranoid, and had a danger sense power. Not as good as Spider-Man's, but then he was only PL 10.

 

[TarionzCousin]

In a pen behind my house...hmmm....it's almost time for their slop!

I should have known: Texan gamers. Sigh.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Y'know...somebody ought to start a thread about people's more interesting Supers PCs.

 

[megamania]

Why.... my Megamania guy of course.

Low level mutant with a talent for chaos and sarcasism. Always the underdog but wins from determination and driving the bad guy nuts until he/she makes a critical mistake.