Traditionally, due to the origins of superhero comics in the real world, supers appear in their setting around or during World War 2. Sometimes it is a little earlier (WW1) or later (the Atomic Age) but most superhero RPG settings have them appear in the early to mid 20th century.
I think it would be fun to explore what it looks like if supers appear in other times and/or settings. One you see on occasion is the Mythic Age (Bronze Age stuff) so character like Heracles are really just supers that appeared. Sometimes games or comics suggest a very contemporary arrival of supers.
But what about supers first appearing in Warring States Japan? Or the Crusades? Or in the cyberpunk future?
Have you created a setting where supers appear at a "non-traditional" time and/or place? Did it result in a capes and cowls superhero setting? What comics or RPGs or video games have you seen where supers appeared sometime other than the 20th century? Did you use those for inspiration?
Way back when I naively believed that I could be a comic book writer, I created a universe in which a godlike psychic space entity attacked Earth and when humanity managed to defeat it, it shattered into thousands of "pieces" and each shard settled in a person, who became a super. (Kind of inspired by Rising Suns, if I recall; like I said, I was young and naive.) That was a 5-minutes-in-the-future setting.
I think it would be fun to explore what it looks like if supers appear in other times and/or settings. One you see on occasion is the Mythic Age (Bronze Age stuff) so character like Heracles are really just supers that appeared. Sometimes games or comics suggest a very contemporary arrival of supers.
But what about supers first appearing in Warring States Japan? Or the Crusades? Or in the cyberpunk future?
Have you created a setting where supers appear at a "non-traditional" time and/or place? Did it result in a capes and cowls superhero setting? What comics or RPGs or video games have you seen where supers appeared sometime other than the 20th century? Did you use those for inspiration?
Way back when I naively believed that I could be a comic book writer, I created a universe in which a godlike psychic space entity attacked Earth and when humanity managed to defeat it, it shattered into thousands of "pieces" and each shard settled in a person, who became a super. (Kind of inspired by Rising Suns, if I recall; like I said, I was young and naive.) That was a 5-minutes-in-the-future setting.
