M&M First Session- Advice Needed

[buzz]

I finished a mini-campaign based on that premise a few months ago.

Details?

 

[Faerl'Elghinn]

All right- well, I know my play group pretty well (my sister, my wife, and my two best friends), so I can reasonably assume what I can and cannot expect them to enjoy. I'm not entirely sure they wouldn't fully enjoy a series of epic battles with no real character development. However, I would feel that I had failed them miserably if I were to allow my game to degenerate into this type of scenario. I'm trying to get these guys interested in the game, and have even gone so far as to buy an extra copy of the core book for each of my friends whom I'd like to see participate.

I think what I'll try for starters is to somehow allow for a coincidental situation in which they're all in the immediate vicinity of a random crime or super-crime (something on a rather large scale, such that all players would need to "unmask"). Then I'll just kind of have to improvise, based on what backgrounds and character choices my players decide to make. I'm sure I'll be able to keep it together, but now I feel much more prepared for the types of situations in which they'd likely become involved.

Thanks again to everyone for all of your shared insights and experiences. I hope that you all will have increased the enjoyment of my players tenfold.