What to play?

There's a great transhumanist hack in the Cortex Plus Hacker's Guide. I'll head over and vote now!

I voted, I'm fine with any of the game ideas. If we do supers, I would suggest a different story line.

For the monster teens...(I'll admit to a weakness to Vampire Diaries..thanks to my daughter..lol). I agree though VAMPIRES DON'T SPARKLE!!!

What if I want to play a special glittery variety of vampires, though???

That's different...lol

And I'm sure we can find a way to make supers different enough from our other game. Just a unique setting or a different theme

I vote for transhumanist cyberpunk monster teen superheroes in the sci-fi future.

Thou shalt not glitter.

I do have an idea for that.

What's the idea?

It's a combination of a couple things. The graphic novel "Old Man Logan" and the Xmen movie "Logan". Basically a supers style campaign set in either a post apocalyptic style setting. It doesn't have to be a fully blown out Mad Max setting.

In the graphic novel Wolverine stepped away from the fighting. He was involved in a situation that caused him to quit and walk away. By the end of the the book, he realized sometimes you can't walk away and came back as the last hero in a world gone to shit.

Our characters could be like him at the end of the book. Something happens and we realize that someone needs to do something.

I'm not really a fan of post-apocalypse but that gave me a related idea.
There could have been some catastrophe, maybe caused by superheroes, not a full apocalypse but like a half one maybe and in the aftermath, superheroes disappeared (maybe due to some law like in watchmen)

Or, a simple way to set it apart from the other game: Villainous characters

Both of those would be great. I haven't played a bad guy in years.

What if in the catastrophe the good guys died or disappeared? They would have been the ones to step up and try to stop it. That leaves the bad guys...

It's a cool concept, I have seen it handled all kinds of ways from retro 9' tall cyborgs to super sleek sleave bodies you just slide your conscious into to virtual lives.

I'm not sure I'd be up for playing as villains. Perhaps selfish non-heroes, but outright villains doesn't have a lot of appeal to me. Post apocalypse is kind of meh for me. I like reading watching it, but I don't make the same connections to characters as I do in other genres, so it's less appealing for a drama-heavy roleplay.

I better get over there and vote, huh?

Former villains and antiheroes forced to be heroes maybe?
Alien invasion wrecked the A team and now those have to step up

That could work.

What if the aliens are the cause of superpowers? Their initial invasion force was clandestine, working in secret to subvert humanity via technologically advanced genetic engineering. They manufactured a virus that worked on a subset of humans and granted them superhuman speed, agility, and strength while degenerating their minds to a nearly feral, animalistic state. Humans are attacked by these new creatures, investigate, discover the virus, but not its origins. At first, they try to cure it, but once the actual invasion begins, they release the version that several governments had been experimenting with. The modified version affects a much wider population, and seems to remove the degenerative mental aspects. Human governments start by infecting volunteer soldiers, then when things look grim, all their soldiers. When the tide of battle doesn't appear to be turning, they release the virus across the planet, infecting every human through high atmospheric distribution.

Now the last chance to save humanity are normal people with their normal problems, who just happen to have been infected and changed by an alien virus that has been modified by their leaders without a clear understanding of what they've done.

Or the group could be a group of randomly selected humans (the crew of a cruise ship, the passengers and crew of an airliner, a group of people on a weekend camping trip, anyting that could give us a wide slice of life), brought aboard an alien ship, modified to survive the rigors of an alien environment, tested to see if the lifeforms that had been seeded across the galaxy bred competent, adaptable warriors. They find themselves with superhuman abilities, pitted against alien combatants, and through sheer human adaptability and ingenuity, survive to prove humans are the greatest warriors the alien program bred.

From there they could be returned to Earth, or left in an armpit sector of galactic society to await their fate, while the aliens make plans to harvest all remaining humans from Earth. You could have space adventures or Earthbound adventures, characters from a wide variety of backgrounds with a wide variety of personality types, yet an event and future threat that keeps them bonded together despite their differences.

That last one could be your superhero AND sci-fi all in one.

That definitely sounds like an interested idea that we can work with

Indeed, lots of avenues to look at.

How about we play in a cyberpunk setting where recently something big happened, maybe some global virus or a cosmic phenomenon, that randomly gave some people superpowers. It's a completely new thing so there haven't been any costumes superheroes in this setting ever before.
Superpowered people could be hunted by the government or corporations (depending on who is the oppressor in the world) to be killed or reeducated because they are a threat to the established order.