superhero game ideas

What I have found when it comes to Supers games is that you while you can convert some of the plots over to Supers style adventures, playing them like you do DnD causes them to fall flat. They lose some of that high octane energy. Supers isn't about the details like DnD and dungeon crawl like adventures kill the campaign faster than bad plots.

One also has to be careful not to inject the campaign with a constant dose of Megvillainitis. Eventually you get over your own head trying to top yourself game after game and burn out like Ellis did on the Authority or Busiek on AVengers. Mega-adventures should be followed up with 3-4 smaller adventures that tie together but don't have the universe at stake. These should be the small stories where Superman saves children from sex slave pits in Guatemala(heh) or Batman learns a lesson about how sometimes life on the street drives young people to crime just so they can survive. Then you have Darkseid come over and bring the New God war to Earth with the Ultimate Nullifier and Galactus riding the crest of a huge hunger strike.

Jason
 

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