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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 3486932" data-attributes="member: 13892">I've just watched the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT8IyV8Z_CQ" target="_blank">Greyson Trailer</a> again and, honestly, it makes me much more excited about superheroes on the big screen that the real Batman franchise does. Or any of the Marvel movies. There's just something very alluring about taking a familiar heroic setting (in this case Earth Prime) and injecting it with a dose of cynicism. Batman as one of the last true, uncompromised, heroes being put down by former allies? His retired protege rising once more to set things right? That premise just drips with cool, specifically because we get to see some old heroes find themselves again in the name of justice. Which got me thinking. . . This would be kind of a cool way to turn an established heroic roleplay setting (e.g., FR) on its ear, as well. The PCs could be aging former heroes in a world where they no longer hold the status that they once did, either being forced to turn to crime in order to survive or simply being forgotten by the world. Becoming has-beens in a post-Heroic Age land. And, then, just when things are at their darkest, a common threat from the past calls together these former companions under the banner of heroism once more.So, er. . . anybody else ever try running something like this?</blockquote>