What If? : X-Men-roleplaying game

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Radiant

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edit: If your new and interested just jump to the end of the thread and ask away, you just have to read the introduction in this post.

Giant-Size X-Men 1
Birth of the "New X-Men". The original X-Men, together with Havoc and Polaris, have traveled to the island of Krakoa but of all the original member only Cyclops has returned and he remembers nothing of the experience.
To safe his students Professor X sends out a telepahtic message to seven mutants:
Nightcrawler,
Thunderbird,
Colossus,
Sunfire,
Wolverine,
Storm,
Banshee

The new X-Men where born. they safed the original Team and took their place as the worlds Nr. 1 Mutant superheroes. With time some of the original member returned, while new member joined or old ones (like Thunderbird) died.

But what if it had all been different?
What if Charles Xavier had not called on these seven for help? Even at that time there where dozens of suitable candidates around. What if he had called your characters instead?
A game of all new, all different X-Men.
Will others take the same steps as Storm and the others did? Or will history change. Will Sprite join the team? Will the Phoenix Force find its host in Jean Grey? If Angel isn't around, who will become the first rider of Apocalypse?
Will you be able to stop Magneto? Will Charles Xaviers dream ever be the same?

And what of Storm, Colossus and the others? If they are not called by Professor X and never become X-Men, what will they do? Will Nightcrawler even survive the witch hunt that's after him? Will Storm stay as a godess in Africa? Will Wolverine lead Alpha flight?

You will find answers to all these question in this brand new and excitin AU series of the MARVEL universe.

Game information:
This game will be set in the Marvel Universe and use the M&M rules.
I will take four to six characters. All characters have to be Mutants and the game will asume that these are the people Charles Xavier called together to be the new X-Men in "Giant Sized X-Men 1". The story will start with them getting sent to Krakoa to save the original X-Men and go on from there. At first it will hold close to the Uncanny X-Men series but the more the characters do different than in the origianal comic books, the more the universe and the future will change, and the stories with them.

More stuff you should know:
-This will not be a first come, first serve basis. I will choose the players and characters I think fit best into the game.
-Posting speed will go from three to four a week to daily depnding on my schedule. Players should be able to post at least three times per week the least. The game is intended to last a while so please don't join if you don't plan to keep PBP games as your hobby for the near future.
-I will not accept players who refuse to get along with their fellows or intrude into their character concepts. That's one of the few ways to get thrown out of the game real fast. Of course ingame bikering is absolutly fine.
-Characters will start at PL 8 and should have a clear cut power theme. I think you all know enough Marvel characters to know what I mean.
You get 2 skill points for each Powerpoint spent on them.
-Character don't have to wear flashy costumes, we will just asume Prof X got the drift a little earlier and handed them something less funny ;) Off course, if you like you can be as colourfull as you want.
-Keep in mind that the game will be about a Team, we don't need people who are Pilots/Super dangerous martial artists and geniuses at the same time.
-The game will pretty much ignore the time frame. At the start we will asume it is a little in the past but like the comic books we won't care who is president right now or what happens in world politics so it won't matter. Afterall the X-Men are still in their twentys after all these years...
-I know tons of stuff about the X-Men and their various spin of series and have at least scratch knowledge of all other Marvel heroes but still their might be some mistakes so don't start throwing stones at me in that case. But by all means please tell me. There the X-Men are concerned getting the complete history is an old hobby of mine.
-The "dying game syndrome". In my short experience here I saw 90% of the games I joined die cause the GM just stopped posting (some had good reasons..). If nothing really special happens in my life that won't happen here. I might post slowly for times but as long as my players stay with me the game will go on (see Mutant High for an example of that).

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more game information:
rules: I will use only the core book and the errata of M&M (see Bro Shatterstones link above)
I will also use the optional rules of creative editing and Skill Points (meaning you gain 2 Skill points for each power point spent)
Normaly the rule of "Massive Damage" will not be used but it applies in fights with major villains or critical end-battles. You will allways know then a scene like that starts 'cause the thread will be marked with "Final Combat". So you allways know then it gets hot. Ususaly that is the page you recognize from the cover of the issue

edit 2: Be warned your character should be well enough built so that they are still intersting without their powers. Unlike in other superhero series I've ever read characters in X-Men sometimes loose their powers or have them changed. It is not likely to happen but it can and will probably at some time to at least one character. So don't cry me a river that you didn't know up front.


well I'm sure I forgot tons of stuff but that's life. Just write if you're interested or got any questions.
 

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Sweet I'm so in for this. :)

Radiant said:
Characters will start at PL 8 and should have a clear cut power theme. I think you all know enough Marvel characters to know what I mean.

Well for someone who has a near compete run of Uncanny X-men from like 160 on, I'm missing like 4 issues, I have no idea what you mean by a clear cut power theme. :)

Since we are replacing the above said x-men I'm curious of something... Do they still exist in this timeline?
 

I haven't played before but I'm interested. I'd like to play a warrior type. I still have to work on the character concept a bit, but expect something by next week. I can post at least once a day.
 


Brother Shatterstone said:
Sweet I'm so in for this. :)



Well for someone who has a near compete run of Uncanny X-men from like 160 on, I'm missing like 4 issues, I have no idea what you mean by a clear cut power theme. :)

Since we are replacing the above said x-men I'm curious of something... Do they still exist in this timeline?

I meant you shouldn't have a radnom asortment of powers. Most marvel characters tend to have powers in one specific areas or centered around one them (Spiderman shotts nets not energy beams for example).

Damn 160? I have all from 94 to 144 but then I have a hole till well into the two hundedth or so. Getting my X-Men gaps closed is getting a real challenge.

And yes the above said X-Men will be still around but no one know what becomes of them if Charles Xavier doesn't call them.

Tokiwong said:
Does this mean the end of Mutant High? or is this in addition to that? Either way I am intrigued...

Mutant High is still around, I just got the impression that only you and Shalimar are really posting at all by now. Still there's an update since yersterday and I haven't give up yet.
 
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I have Extreme X-men :) it is good stuff... and well as long as your not closing it... we have lost several players so it happens :(
 

Radiant said:
I meant you shouldn't have a radnom asortment of powers. Most marvel characters tend to have powers in one specific areas or centered around one them (Spiderman shotts nets not energy beams for example).

Okay gotcha now. :) What about an altered mutant? Aka: Wolverine, Archangel (Apocalypse version)

Radiant said:
Damn 160? I have all from 94 to 144 but then I have a hole till well into the two hundedth or so. Getting my X-Men gaps closed is getting a real challenge.

Well actually it's 150. ;) (I went and looked) I filled most of my gasp via eBay in huge complete runs. (look around you can find 50 or so here and 50 or so there.)
I'm very impressed with the 94-144 I should work on x-men again but I almost never read them and more. Sad but true. :(


Radiant said:
And yes the above said X-Men will be still around but no one know what becomes of them if Charles Xavier doesn't call them.
Sweet! I'm stealing Ms. Marvel, Phoenix or Jean Grey, yo pick the name, from Cyclops! :D

Tokiwong, yeah it is a pretty good series and I also have the full run of it and also a full run of New X-men. :)
 

Tokiwong said:
I have Extreme X-men :) it is good stuff... and well as long as your not closing it... we have lost several players so it happens :(

nah, I'm not closing it. Maybe We will recruit some new people before the next episode.
Extreme X-Men was pretty nice but beware, we start a long time before that there will still be lot of cheesy villains and story lines around.

Okay gotcha now. What about an altered mutant? Aka: Wolverine, Archangel (Apocalypse version)

That would be possible but not for more than one character.


Well actually it's 150. (I went and looked) I filled most of my gasp via eBay in huge complete runs. (look around you can find 50 or so here and 50 or so there.)
I'm very impressed with the 94-144 I should work on x-men again but I almost never read them and more. Sad but true.

Yeah those sets are pretty nice, got the complete eXcalibut and X-Force series that way. But I have to stop buying new ones for now since well I'm running out of place ;)
But I read them all so I can't say it wasn't worth it.

Sweet! I'm stealing Ms. Marvel, Phoenix or Jean Grey, yo pick the name, from Cyclops!

at that time it was still Marvel Girl. The Phoenix Force is still out there in space. It joined with ther a few issues later but we will see if that happes at all. Maybe it will even find another host...
Since Cyclops was the only original X-Men who stayed with the new Team he may be available as a player character.

Tokiwong, yeah it is a pretty good series and I also have the full run of it and also a full run of New X-men.

same here. Sadly I am missing all those Tsunami spin of series and the eXiles at the moment. But US imports are just too expensive to collect them all.
 

Tyreus said:
I haven't played before but I'm interested. I'd like to play a warrior type. I still have to work on the character concept a bit, but expect something by next week. I can post at least once a day.

great :)
 
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I've already played a what if... game with X-men and M&M system. It was strange to see Magneto as the good guy...

If the is some place left, I want to join for sure. I love M&M games.
 
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