What If? : X-Men-roleplaying game

[Keia]

I kind have like the pants and skirt also but what do you like about each one?

A skirt at the knees, just not it comics right now, or in r/l much . . . I prefer either short skirt, or windswept long skirt with several slits to the waist, giving the entire thing a sense of motion.

The idea of the x flowing into the pant strip is rather cool. It would be even cooler if the x flowed into blue tattoos running down the sides of her legs - though that's a bit too exotic for Alicia.

The current trend in outfits for women seems to be the one piece (having just glanced through the most recent Avengers/Thunderbolts comic).

Whatever you feel best works for me. Course you could always change it every week.

Keia

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

I'm always partial to more skin. It's a comic book! I mean, c'mon!?

You should read Tarot then...

A skirt at the knees, just not it comics right now, or in r/l much . . . I prefer either short skirt, or windswept long skirt with several slits to the waist, giving the entire thing a sense of motion.

Like this?

The idea of the x flowing into the pant strip is rather cool. It would be even cooler if the x flowed into blue tattoos running down the sides of her legs - though that's a bit too exotic for Alicia.

Yeah the tattoo is probably to much as she’s from Kansas City, Missouri and not Seattle Washington.

I can smooth out the transitions between sections btw.

Do you like the colors? I might goof off with a third color, via PSP, which three would you do that way?

 

[Radiant]

Keia is right, in current comic books one piece suits are the most common.
At the time of giant sized X-Men 1 the first look with the skirt you created would be the most likely. But as I said you don't have to go with the cheesy costumes they had back then (just look what Storm had to wear for so long, the poor girl).
But hey, I wouldn't worry about it too much, the X-Men are the number 1 superhero team then it comes to changing costumes with time so you can switch as often as you like.

 

[Radiant]

Righty, I've uploaded (the) Data. Now, I'll be Frank (pun TOTALLY intended) with you, I made a tiny change. Amazing Save - Will is now an extra of Amazing save - Reflex. Doesn't really change anything rules-wise (except for if I get Drained), just looks cleaner on the sheet. OK with you?

noooooooooooooooo!!!!! How dare you to change your character???!!!!!

of course that's ok

 

[Radiant]

Rad, do we know when the game will start?

just follow the link in my sig, Issue 1 is now on sale!!!!


a few notes:
apart from Shar and Flex none of you have met Xavier yet or know about his school.
Flex has been there for a short while (a year is a bit too long) but so far did not know about the X-Men, Cerebro or most other of the secret stuff.
He does know about the danger room cause that's most likely the place there he learned to control most of his powers.


One last thing. I am short on time for the next few days cause I have to write an important test on Monday. I didn't think we would be ready to go before that. So I had to decide if I want to sit down and chek over all your characters numbers or start wrting the ingame thread. Went with the later and hope you can all live with that.

@Brother Shatterstone: As soon as you sent me your finished rules I can get Alicia into the game.

@Keia: In your background you mention a hero who helped you out after you accident. Did you have someone in mind for that? If not I would use Iron Fist, in those old Issues he had some contact to the X-Men and all that "find you balance" stuff from him makes him a good candidate to help someone control his powers.

 

[Keia]

@Keia: In your background you mention a hero who helped you out after you accident. Did you have someone in mind for that? If not I would use Iron Fist, in those old Issues he had some contact to the X-Men and all that "find you balance" stuff from him makes him a good candidate to help someone control his powers.

No it really didn't matter to me. In the original story it was someone wit precog powers, but I think Iron Fist works very well. Brandon Laine is at a West Coast (warm) college also (don't remember if that was evident from the background). Anything else, feel free to ask or just go with the flow. I'm just excited to be playing and I'm looking forward to the game.

Keia

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

a few notes:
apart from Shar and Flex none of you have met Xavier yet or know about his school.

Do I need to remove any references of Xavier from Alicia's background?

@Brother Shatterstone: As soon as you sent me your finished rules I can get Alicia into the game.

Most of it has been sent to you with the exception of the above change to Mistress Mind's berserking will save. I do have a few more ideas so I'll polish all of it up and send it to you tonight. (I'm at work and I doubt I'll have the time to do it till then.)

Keia is right, in current comic books one piece suits are the most common.
At the time of giant sized X-Men 1 the first look with the skirt you created would be the most likely. But as I said you don't have to go with the cheesy costumes they had back then (just look what Storm had to wear for so long, the poor girl).

I really didn't think the skirt was cheesy... Anyhow your own comments made me curious of something.

What time frame are we in? Are we in the 80's or is it going to be a non-descriptive modern age with no real date?

as for my costume I think I'll go with the skirt... At least for now, if it becomes obvious that it’s unpractical then I will change to the full body suit.

Brandon Laine is at a West Coast (warm) college also (don't remember if that was evident from the background).

Oh if it matters Princeton University is in NJ. It was chosen cause they have a pretty dominant history in ladies softball and their music programs seemed more than impressive enough plus it was close to NY, Xavier, and the X-men.

 

[Radiant]

Do I need to remove any references of Xavier from Alicia's background?




Most of it has been sent to you with the exception of the above change to Mistress Mind's berserking will save. I do have a few more ideas so I'll polish all of it up and send it to you tonight. (I'm at work and I doubt I'll have the time to do it till then.)



I really didn't think the skirt was cheesy... Anyhow your own comments made me curious of something.

What time frame are we in? Are we in the 80's or is it going to be a non-descriptive modern age with no real date?

as for my costume I think I'll go with the skirt... At least for now, if it becomes obvious that it’s unpractical then I will change to the full body suit.



Oh if it matters Princeton University is in NJ. It was chosen cause they have a pretty dominant history in ladies softball and their music programs seemed more than impressive enough plus it was close to NY, Xavier, and the X-men.

your background text is fine, you will be picked up by Xavier at the start of the game so by the end of the chapter what you wrote is correct. I don't see a need to change that.

"non-descriptive modern age with no real date" hits it pretty well cause I think that's what the Marvel Universe is. I almost never saw year references there and if they had any all the X-Men would be well in their forties by now.
Just asume it's today, next year, five yeards ago. Something around that.

 

[Hellzon]

Hellzon, I got a question Or one for anyone else in the game really.

Isn't "Computers" the ability to program, code, crack, hack, etc... isn't that technically Science: Computers? I can't think of an instance where you would use one over the other. I'm thinking you could probably reinvest those ranks into something else. Possibly spot and search, useful to anyone who does research, even on the web or within a mainframe, or Craft (computers/mechanical devices) or Disable Device (computers/mechanical devices) or Open Locks (computerized/mechanical). ...

Good question. Figured Science:computers would be more "computer trivia", as in "who made Cobol" and so on (shows how little I really know about computers, I guess, of course Cobol was made by more than one guy ) but the more I think about it, it seems you're right.

Any thoughts on this Radiant? If it's okay, maybe I could move some points to Search (massively boosted by 8 points of Super-Int, hee hee), or whatever is closest to the CoC skills "Library Use/Computer Use". (the latter exists in modern CoC right?)

Dude, never considered using Search for research (was thinking of Gather Info). Thanks for the heads up.

What time frame are we in? Are we in the 80's or is it going to be a non-descriptive modern age with no real date?

Gotta be 80's. Bring out the hairdos.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

your background text is fine, you will be picked up by Xavier at the start of the game so by the end of the chapter what you wrote is correct. I don't see a need to change that.

Great sounds like a plan to me but now I'm wondering if I should tone Alicia down to a PL4. She shouldn't have much of an idea of what she can do in till she meets the Xavier. (Or that’s how I imagine it; I could change to reflect that she does know how to use her powers before their meeting.)

Just asume it's today, next year, five yeards ago. Something around that.

Sweet works for me.