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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drl2" data-source="post: 8426551" data-attributes="member: 6983130">In my Mighty Protectors campaign I'm incapable of taking NPCs entirely seriously, which has resulted in heroes and villains like:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Captain Generica - Used to operate under a different name but got sued into oblivion by a comic company.  Now in order to make ends meet, his battle cry is the URL of his Patreon page</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Beelze-Bob - incel accountant who made a deal with a demon because he thought it would make girls like him</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Flower Child - peace-loving hippy with plant powers; fell in with a bad crowd.  Time in prison has made him angry, and he'll be back as The Weed.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Invisigoth - Emo teen with invisibility and stat-siphoning powers</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vinny from the Bronx - knows a guy who owes him a favor</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Uncanny Valley Girl - re-activated android super-heroine from 1984, her AI now residing in the team's base's computer system.  Refuses to update her speech patterns to remove the phrase "Like,..." from the beginning of sentences.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mother Superior - leader of a band of nun-chuck wielding nun-jas.</li> </ul>These are less about funny names than funny powers, but:  My campaign is based in a very loose parallel to the Villains and Vigilantes universe, where there's such a thing as government licensing of heroes to help protect them from ramifications like being sued for property damage incurred while defeating an alien invasion.  I've created an organization called CUSP (Coalition of Unlicensed Special Protectors) where people with limited powers who can't get licensed on their own can band together and take advantage of on-staff attorneys to provide similar (but less effective) protections.  The team local to my players' location have become sort of rival frenemies and consists of:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mantra - has mind control abilities, but they're limited to forcing someone to quietly meditate while chanting a catchphrase over and over</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Weeble - he wobbles, but he doesn't fall down</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lefty - superhumanly strong, but only on one side of his body</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Sleeper - nigh invulnerable but only when he's asleep.  Before going into battle, pops a tranquilizer so Lefty can use him as a club or shield.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mister Bubble - his ability to create and control vast quantities of soap bubbles is called Bubblekinesis.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Stilts - has the amazing power of growth at will - though only to a few inches taller than his normal height</li> </ul></blockquote>

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