Living Superheroes World (Come join the fun and the debate)

[Kylara]

Once we know, through the poll what the Setting is (RL or Not RL), the Power Sources (Unified Theme or Anything under the Sun), and PL, it should all come together pretty quickly once we elect/choose judges.

 

[Lord_Raven88]

Here is my input into this.

A) Begining Character power (Pick one, or list in order of Preference)
3) Standard (PL10 exactly)


B) Character Origin
2) Nearly Unlimited (Restricted very little if any)
I'm more than happy to go along the commet idea for most of the origins, but I still think there should be some scope to have a slightly differnt origin.

C) Setting Origin
1) RL with Reciently catylicit/divergant event (the Millenium commet)
Again the comet idea is a good one, perhaps the comet has been making regular passes by earth, but this has only resulted in a very few manifestaions of superpowers (Perhaps legendary characters of old had super powers, i.e. Hercules, Merlin, Thor etc), now with the increase ambient energy levels (electromagnetic, radio, etc) this has dramatically increased the number of people who manifest superpowers.

D) I am... (Choose all that are appropriate)
1) Definately interested in Playing

 

[Herobizkit]

Put me down for:

A) Beginning Power Level: 3) standard
B) Character Origin: 2) Nearly Unlimited
C) Setting Origin: 2) RL plus Superheroes (Heroes throughout history)
D) I am: 1) Definitely interested in Playing

E) Comments: Here's an idea how DM's can run their own worlds plus have the "main" world. We could call it "The Nexus".

The Nexus is a waypoint of realities. The "Justice League Tower" or whatever is stationed at this waypoint. The waypoint happens to be Real Life. The Tower orbits the Earth and watches for anomalies in reality. Sometimes, one reality crosses over into another causing all sorts of mayhem. Luckily, The Tower also exists simultaneously in all realities.

So, a clever DM can set up his own world with its own rules, and have the heroes go into his reality pretty much out the front door. When they're done, they can come back into The Tower and back into the "main" world.

The "main world", IMO, should be created by the admins, and each admin taking part should have some sort of Iconic leader-types (someone mentionned the Justic League original 7, for example) with one Uber-leader for them all.

Thoughts, comments?

 

[Kylara]

We want just 1 world, thats the point, that everyone is in the same world, and everyone is freely capable of interacting, and able to join any other game that is starting, once the game they are currently in is completed. Everything must use the same rules, for consistancy, and ease of use. This wont be a disjointed world where each dm has their own reality to do whatever they want with.

 

[Kylara]

15 Players Milestone Current Poll results

Power Level:
Standard (PL 10) 60%, 9 Votes
Near Average (8-12) 33.3%, 5 votes
New/Low Powered(PL 8) 6.7%, 1 vote

Character Origin:
Nearly Unlimited 60%, 9 votes
1 Specific Origin 33.3%, 5 votes
Other (Explain) 6.7%, 1 vote

[Velmont is the 'other' but when explained in his comments, it is more a neutral]

Setting Origin:
RL with Recent Divergence 40%, 6 votes [ex. Millenium Comet]
RL plus Super Heros 20%, 3 vote
RL with Returning Divergence 13.33%, 2 vote [ex. Return of Millenium Comet]
Not RL Plus Super(completely created) 6.67%, 1 vote
Not RL Returning Divergence 6.67%, 1 vote
Other (explain) 13.33%, 2 vote

 

[Velmont]

I think I'll have to reexplain myself... at least, I'll try, not sure of what I want myself.

For the world, I don't like option 2, that would become a mess, that's all. option 1 is interesting, but that would surely call for one origin only. If we go for something 4 to 6, now that open the door to more origin. What I am scared off, it is we just gather a lot of idea into a pool and we just dive in it. So, let's just tell I am not sure of what I want, but I know what I don't.

 

[Bront]

I think I'll have to reexplain myself... at least, I'll try, not sure of what I want myself.

For the world, I don't like option 2, that would become a mess, that's all. option 1 is interesting, but that would surely call for one origin only. If we go for something 4 to 6, now that open the door to more origin. What I am scared off, it is we just gather a lot of idea into a pool and we just dive in it. So, let's just tell I am not sure of what I want, but I know what I don't.

Option 2 (RL plus Superheroes) is a mess, because we either need to rewrite history, or simply just ignore history and then mention supers in it occasionaly, which will be a pain.

Option 1 (RL with recient Dirergent event) doesn't nessessarily limit anything, it simply says that things changed and became noticable after that. The event was simply a catalyst to allow for the power sources to exist to the point that they can provide noticable powers, as well as the decision for supers to become public.

Example - Johny was part of an anchient cult of mages. They practiced the anchient sorcerous arts, though with little success. Reciently though, Johny has found his magic to be much more potent, allowing him to manipulate materials in ways he could have never imagined before. Encouraged by the cult's leader, his father, he has emerged in the League of Heroes to try to use his powers for the betterment of mankind.

Note, it's a magic power source, but it seems to be more powerfull now since the commet has passed. That's how you combine Unlimited and Divergent event, it's a recient catylist, but not the direct cause.

 

[Kylara]

I think one issue that we should all be cognizant off is what is occuring on the vote for power source. We have votes for the One Source, and for the Nearly Unlimited Sources, that is a fairly polar thing, and can lead to a lot of hurt feelings and arguements. I would point out that there are some compromises that would take the spirit of both into account, without alienating players that wont either side.

Even with one catalyst/event for powers, you'd still be able to have pretty much any actualy power source you wanted. Think of a Powersource, and even with the one catalyst event that allows powers, you can find a reasoning for all powers.

As Bront suggested, for magic: A group of wiccans, or an order of mages suddenly find their magic actually works now, the event having done something to them to allow them to tap into real magic

Cybernetics: An inventor comes up with working upgrades thanks to a boost to his mental prowess

Super-Science: Some things were availible before, but now much more is able to be accomplished due to new techniques, materials, theory, etc

Mutates: (ala Daredevil, Spiderman, Sandman, etc) are availible as power sources thanks to the increase of super science.

Mutation: Direct result of the event.

etc.

I think the point I am trying to bring up in such a compromise, is that you can have a lot of diversity with very few if any restrictions while still keeping an overall unified theme together. The reason I personally voted for only one source is because I was worried that the game would be an utter mish mash of disparate ideas that don't really all fit together in any meaningful way, which I thought would have consequences on the playability of the world itself. So long as overall there is a unified theme, almost any power source could be justified.

 

[Velmont]

Note, it's a magic power source, but it seems to be more powerfull now since the commet has passed. That's how you combine Unlimited and Divergent event, it's a recient catylist, but not the direct cause.

Well, that's what I meant by throw everything in a pool and then dive in it. The comet come and everything is possible. At first, it's look cool because of that flexibility. At long, it will become a big mish mash of things that will be confusing. We will be scratching every subject but exploring none.

I want to see something more precise, with more style, like:

A meteor strike in the heart of the pacifique oceans. At first, the only impact is that all country around the pacific ocean was hit by a wave that make the tsunami of year 2004 a joke. It also create a cloud of dust and vapor that had travelled around the world. But it was found that the rock is radioactive and people all around the world have start to mutate because of the dust in the cloud. Those mutant are generally named first wave mutants. Other mutants have appear over the next years, but the number of appearance have slowed down, as the cloud have disapear, but the meteor still lie in the ocean and continue to influence the world.

Possible source:
Mutation
Super-Science (After a few year, some genius mutant have started to spread new technology)

Or...

The Aztec knew about it long ago. The world is govern by one god among the patheon, but that god rule for a short time. This year, it is a new god that come to rule. The era of the jaguar is starting, and magic is coming back, as mytical creature. It seems to have hit the world like a meteor. Less "civilized" country, as some would speak of, have raise into power with the help of the magic. The door of Avalon have open again. Childbed story are now real life story. And many country who have been lacking that magical heritage have been invaded. With the rise of magic, many country have stop to found research in favor for magical training. (yeah, I know, looks like Shadowrun...)

Possible source:
Magic
Alien (could rename it mythical... who want to play a Phoenic or an unicorn)

Why not...

The Yull have done the first contact a year ago with the Earth. The contact have been pacific and many exchange have been done. They have offered some technology and they have taken some arts, who is prized by them. Some have even decided to stay to learn our culture. With time, some have found husband or wives with humans. To the surprise of the scientist, babies are born from the Yull women. Those new babies have some unusual characteristic that either the parent had.

Possible source:
Alien
Super-Science (After a few year, some genius mutant have started to spread new technology)

 

[Dirigible]

Ahh, so the 'catalyst event' is like the Dark Tide of Dark*Matter, or the rise of the Red Death in Masque of the Red Death, or the return of mana in Shadowrun? Something that turns the real-o-meter down a few notches, not something like Aberrant's Galatea explosion or the White Event that actually created all the supers?