How Do You Like Your Super Hero TTRPG Games/Campaigns?

[DrunkonDuty]

I like the genre a lot, as regular posters may have noticed.

I could have ticked most of the boxes about style/age/tropes and what have you. Supers is a pretty flexible genre, you can do all of them, but maybe not all in the same campaign.

For games I like Champions. Love me some crunch. But also love Marvel FASERIP, it delivers the fast paced action.

 

[billd91]

The most important element is to embrace the genre, so it’s the only answer I checked. Everything else is negotiable.
Actual situation: If I’m running a Claremont Academy (school for teen supers) Mutants and Masterminds game, and you’ve got a decent attack power, WHY ARE YOU INSISTING ON PACKING A PISTOL, Karen?!?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The Bronze Age is usually roped off at the death of Gwen Stacey or Speedy's drug addiction. The Iron Age is a little tougher but I have heard DKR as a starting point, or the appearance of Venom. But, yeah, it's pretty fuzzy.

Personally I like to think of Kingdom Come and Marvel's as the "Modern" Age beginning. Some people create borders of a nuSilver Age with the advent of the Ultimate Universe but I don't really buy it.

I stopped reading comics regularly when the nu52 appeared, so I don't know if today's Modern Age is notably different than the one that emerged in the late 90s and early 00s.

It is. And it makes Kingdom Come and Marvels a problematic boundary point, since the comics future they were explicitly fighting against came true anyway.

 

[Mars Hall]

Basically, I want 1980's Marvel Comics.

 

[jdrakeh]

I like my supers campaigns in pretty much two different modes - "street level" dark games (like the television show Alphas) and moderately high powered pulp adventure (White Wolf's Adventure! RPG). Also, I prefer relatively light systems for my supers games (FASERIP, Supers!, Risus, etc).

 

[Tonguez]

I really like Narrative systems for the reason that they let different power levels work on the same team and facilitates a more 'genre accurate' experience.

I also like Pulp era (pre Golden Age) though I'm most familiar with the Bronze age

 

[Tonguez]

I think most people just refer to that as the "Mystery Men" era. The Shadow, The Spirit, etc.

Mystery men are part of the Pulp era, as are Men of Science, Action Hero (and Action girl)

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I like the genre a lot, as regular posters may have noticed.

I could have ticked most of the boxes about style/age/tropes and what have you. Supers is a pretty flexible genre, you can do all of them, but maybe not all in the same campaign.

For games I like Champions. Love me some crunch.

Quoted for basically beating me to my own post.

I do have (many) other supers games, but I mainly use them for inspiration.

Then again, I’ll design & run a supers version of almost anything. As I’ve often said, my best campaign (of any kind) was a HERO supers game set in an expanded version of the Space:1889 setting.

 

[DammitVictor]

Light rules, "Modern" Era (early 2000s, honestly; I feel like that Era has ended already), idealistic and genre-affirming.

My default setting for a superheroes game is to run Marvel Heroic Roleplaying with the premise (and the homebrew ruleset) of the eXiles comics, except with a broader pan-Marvel and strongly Spider-centric cast. Otherwise, I'm easily persuaded to tackle something like TMNT or Street Fighter, but I run (both of) those closer to "cinematic" urban fantasy.

 

[Corinnguard]

I collected a couple Mutants and Masterminds 2nd edition books several years ago.

1. Instant Superheroes
2. Mutants and Masterminds 2nd edition core rulebook
3. the M&M book on Magic superheroes
4. Ultimate Power Pocketbook

I really liked using the last one because of the level of customization you could do with creating a particular superpower. I never got to play Mutants and Masterminds, but I really enjoyed creating superheroes using it's point-buy system.