What If? : X-Men-roleplaying game

[Radiant]

the stuff about rules is now in post 1 of the thread for easy reference. There is also another comment there so it never hurts to read that one again.


@Hellzon: Maybe I missed sometng but I didn't get how that illusion power fits with the rest.

@Brother Shatterstone: Here we have a perfect example for my rules-light philosophy. I would suggest two ways to handle Alicia.
First: There are no different stats for Alicia, she just doesn't use her powers eben though she has them in theory. She might also not use some her skills I'd leave that up to you. But I would not create a different character for her.
Since she changes under stress that is not so much of a flaw and I would leave it up to you then she does or does not change so it could be an interesting story element but no real weakness.
Second: Much the same as above except that you take the change as a flaw (and gain your usual points through that) but in this case I will decide that you will or will not change at times. So the team could lack Mind's powers then they are threatened but Alicia is not. Or you might change then provoked at a time you really don't want to etc.

Both are pretty fast solutions but if you propose something with harder rules that still works fast and easy then that's fine with me too.

@Calinon: I deffinatly LOVE your character idea. If you could find something other than telekinesis for Sharon I'd take her in right now. As it is you have to argue it out with Bro Shatterstone since I will not take too chars with teke.
I think the teke is not an essential part of the char you proposed, Sharon could have any number of other cool powers. She is also a character who would be really likely to have the weapon power and maybe use a gun but that's just a thought.
The part about her having the power to see and activate latent X-genes is nice and you can keep that in any case.
(I think Sage could do that, which I think was really cool. Of course she used it to create Slipstream which I think really sucked but that's another matter...)

 

[Mojorizzen]

I'd love to get in this game. My character concept is a man named Threshold. His main power is absorbtion with the unforntunate side effect of not being able to feel anything. (Up to you if this is a weakness or not) I imagine him as part of the weapon X program. I'll work up a character and post tomorrow.

Are you using standard rules for skill points? Or are you going with one of the 2 or 3 to 1 ratio?

 

[Velmont]

About Characters: So far I can say I really like the following characters:
Brother Shatterstone's, Mistress Mind, Telekinetic and Telepath
Dark Phoenix's , Phoenix the living fire, human torch style character

Ok, my concept will be a bit hard to manage and it fits less in the style of play, so I wil drop it. Anyway, Hellzone have come with a good concept that have too much similar powers. So I'll come with another concept soon...

 

[Calinon]

@Calinon: I deffinatly LOVE your character idea. If you could find something other than telekinesis for Sharon I'd take her in right now. As it is you have to argue it out with Bro Shatterstone since I will not take too chars with teke.
I think the teke is not an essential part of the char you proposed, Sharon could have any number of other cool powers. She is also a character who would be really likely to have the weapon power and maybe use a gun but that's just a thought.
The part about her having the power to see and activate latent X-genes is nice and you can keep that in any case.
(I think Sage could do that, which I think was really cool. Of course she used it to create Slipstream which I think really sucked but that's another matter...)

Okie I think perhaps basing it off of force field instead, which gives me my deflection extra, a snare extra (force attack), and isn't a stretch to include flight as an extra of it. Just a question, but would you allow feats directly tied to my super-senses to have that flaw attached? While I will meet the requirements of the feat even without my super-senses, these feats should vanish should I lose that power for any reason. It's just a cost thing; not a big deal either way, but important when building the character.

 

[Velmont]

Here the background of my new concept:

You want to know when it's happen the first time. Let me remember. It didn't happen like that, no. It wasn't *poof* and I am using my powers. It was more scary than that. I was at my last year of secondary school, in Montreal. The things starts during the summer, when the school year was about to start. I found a spider in my bedroom when I awoke. Nothing really scary, but it was the first time I saw one spider in the house. She was ugly, so I kill it. One week later, I found another spider in my room while I was changing my clothing. After that, I think it was four days after, and it increase like that, finding spiders in my room. I talk about it to my parents and they call the exterminator. He puts some traps for insects in my room. He told he wasn't sure if it would work, as it was the first time someone called him for a spider infestation.

The next day, I didn't woke up. It was my parents who found me in my bed. I was sweating, my skin was very hot and red. I was unconcious. They bring me to the hospital. There, they told my parent I was poisonned by some insect killing product. The exterminator came back to the house and removed every traps and didn't charge for his service to the family, apologizing for what has happen, even if he couldn't understand how I would have been poisonned by those traps, except if I would have eaten them myself. It took a week before I get out of the hospital.

One month later, I was at the gymnasium. We were playing handball. I was playing against Benoit Cunningham. He was one of the best player. When he was shooting the ball, the goalers were always trying to protect themselves, not trying to stop the ball. Except Francis, but he had to go at the infirmery once because he got a broken finger. It didn't stop him, and he was goaling the next week. But to come back to my story, I was playing my best game ever. I had goaled four time, and stolen the ball seven time to Benoit. He was starting to be angry. He was a bit bad loser. Well, not a bit, really big time bad loser, and he couldn't accept to be beaten by only one guy, and me over that. I had never scored a goal before... So, in his frustration, he voluntary miss his shot to the goal, to deviate it just a bit in my direction, right on me. I was almost in the path to the goal, and for everyone, it would have been reasonnable to think they miss their shot, but never Benoit had miss his shot. And that shot was unusually strong. I was looking at my player, to see where he was going, so I didn't see the shot, and I should had recieved it right on the head, but at the last moment, I had a feeling, and I drop to the ground. The player I was watching recieved it on the nose and he had to goes to the infirmery.

Nothing pretty unusual happen for three more month, except one or two spider per week in my bed, but that, I was starting to get used. And the first where I learn I was a mutant, it was during the Christmas holidays. We were December 27th. We hadn't the chance to have a close family party before, so we choosed to give our gift that day. We were celebrating around a good meal when someone enter the house. I stand up to see. I thought it was my older brother, Yannick, who was late. I open the light in the hall, as we usually keep the light off when we don't use a room, the electricity bill is lower like that. At that moment, I heard a "Tabarnaque". I saw the guy, a robber had just enter the house, thinking it was empty. He took his gun out and point it at me. I try to turn away to get to hide and warn my parent. The guy was nervous, and pull the trigger by mistake. At least, it was that he had reported to the police after. I didn't saw the shot, but I knew it was aiming for my shoulder, so I turn on myself. My shirst got ripped and I took a scratch. I should have taken in right in the shoulder.

At that moment, I wished I could hide myself, make me small enough so he wouldn't find me. I was served. I feel a strange feeling in my body. I took a look at me, and I saw it becoming black and falling apart. I was scared. Small bits of me was falling on the ground. I look at them. They were spiders. The same spiders I was killing every week in my bedroom. It took a moment, and I was on the ground. I was a swarm of spider. I saw the man, he becamed white. His gun fall on the ground and another bullet was shot, but in his leg. He has tried to flee, but injured, he got caught. For myself, I returned to my original form a few moemnt after that. My parents had seen the last moment of the scene. They were scared too. They didn't want me to come closer. Ten minutes after, my brother arrived, just before the police. I told him the story. He supported me, not like my parents, but I can't blame them.

I returned to the hospital. They made a lot of test, but found nothing with the normal tests, and they said that my wound should heal in less than a week. They ask me if they could do a DNA test. I accept. It took a week before I got the result. They found that I was a mutant. Anyway, the newspaper had already made there idea before they had seen the result, and there was a few articles on me. In Montreal, I was forgotten in less than a month, but at my school, it was becoming a hell. They make fun of me, naming me monster, tarentula, spider-boy. I was scaring all the girls, and most of the boys was making fun of me. My friends just stop to see me, mostly there parents had restricted them. Well, there was Francis who feared nothing that continue to see me. It is in such moment you find your true friends, and I had two, Francis and my brother.

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The power I'm thinking to take with him is Super-Dex and Comabt Sense. He will have too the ability to transform into a swarm of spider, and in swarm form, he would have elasticity, Clinging and a poison attack.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

@Brother Shatterstone: Here we have a perfect example for my rules-light philosophy. I would suggest two ways to handle Alicia.

I'm not much for rules light as it can lead to two people having different views of what could and should happen.

First: There are no different stats for Alicia, she just doesn't use her powers eben though she has them in theory. She might also not use some her skills I'd leave that up to you. But I would not create a different character for her.

Since she changes under stress that is not so much of a flaw and I would leave it up to you then she does or does not change so it could be an interesting story element but no real weakness.

I think it could quickly become lost in the story and I would also state that Bruce Banner changes under undue stress and that it is indeed a weakness. Not having control of ones body or remember what one has been doing is indeed a weakness. As I stated in the email I do agree it’s not an effective weakness for the game so I'll find someway to turn it into an effective weakness.

Second: Much the same as above except that you take the change as a flaw (and gain your usual points through that) but in this case I will decide that you will or will not change at times. So the team could lack Mind's powers then they are threatened but Alicia is not. Or you might change then provoked at a time you really don't want to etc.

Ohhh I do like that, sorry group, but to be left to the whims of fate is hard not to like. It would make her condition direr in nature and would also make it impossible to forget about why gaming and role-playing.

Both are pretty fast solutions but if you propose something with harder rules that still works fast and easy then that's fine with me too.

I think I can solve this quickly and I'll start work on this soon. I think I'm going to do the two different PL so that Alicia isn't totally worthless to the group if her affliction doesn't trigger, also it will help show her progress from the help of Professor X, and it clearly shows what she can and can't do rules wise.

@Calinon: I deffinatly LOVE your character idea. If you could find something other than telekinesis for Sharon I'd take her in right now. As it is you have to argue it out with Bro Shatterstone since I will not take too chars with teke.

I know that Calinon has posted since this was added but I'll toss my two cents into the pile.

I'm not sure how much of my character concept would change if her powers where anything other than mental. Calinon if you truly need to please say so and I will look around for other powers that I think will work.

I'm sure someone is curious at my concept but I will admit after looking at some of yours that mine is rather half hazarded and very cluttered. Which is much like my mind, I'll look at finding a way to fix this and addressing it to everyone else.

 

[Mimic]

Edited my character, dropped the claws and gave him shadow tenticles and expanded his background, give it another look see Radiant and let me know what you think.

Ohhh I do like that, sorry group, but to be left to the whims of fate is hard not to like. It would make her condition direr in nature and would also make it impossible to forget about why gaming and role-playing.

Couldn't agree with you more, it's always fun when you don't have any control over certain situations.

I'm sure someone is curious at my concept

I for one am curious

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

I for one am curious

and your one of the few who should have a better idea than most... Hammerheads game. Though its been vastly improved upon.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

If anyone has the errata from before 1/1/04 could you please email it to me? (Email is in the profile.)

 

[Mimic]

and your one of the few who should have a better idea than most... Hammerheads game. Though its been vastly improved upon.

Ahh, ok I remember now.

That reminds me to bug Hammerhead about starting that up again.