Mar 17, 2021 7:26 pm
Good afternoon GP friends!
So I have been saving some space in my gaming schedule for this idea I have had, inspired by a project I participated in many years ago on another gaming site similar to this one. That project was much bigger than what I plan to do, but I think it will still be fun on a smaller scale.
I want to run a superhero game with each player having a dedicated thread just to their character’s story. So players will be mostly playing a duet game with me, super-focused on their Super. At certain points their stories will merge with those of other Supers and we will start a new temporary thread for co-op play. So for example, if Superman goes to Gotham to team up against a large threat he doesn’t think Batman can handle on his own. On a grander scale this would like be when the individual stories of the heroes combine when they form the Avengers, but after the threat is gone they go back to their own things.
The setting is a hodgepodge of other settings combined, with me just grabbing cool ideas from all over the place. Basically, the players will start their Super career in the slums of a super metropolis (think Coruscant from Star Wars only instead of an entire planet city it’s just roughly the size of the US) in Earth’s very distant future. The game will start out on the lower end of the power threshold, fighting crime bosses or low-power Super villains, and perhaps one day reaching out to larger scale and perhaps cosmic confrontations. All Supers will basically be vigilantes, as the government does not condone your activities. Being a vigilante in a dark, gritty city shouldn’t make you feel like you need a repurposed Batman costume though! Think outside the box!
The introduction to the setting provided below is the bulk of what I have prepared. I would like to work with my players to flesh it out further and play will be largely sandbox. I may railroad at times to connect storylines for co-op, but otherwise players will largely steer the story. The system I will be using is Tiny Supers, so this will be a pretty rules-lite game focusing mostly on narrative. I am still relatively new to GMing and the Tiny d6 system both so I will be looking for patient players that are okay with me screwing up a lot and making stuff up as I go. We will be using the standard character creation rules so 3 powers/traits.
I will be taking on 2 players to start, with the intention on adding 1 or 2 more in the future. While this may be just one game, I realize that splitting things up like this makes a bit more work for me and I don’t want to overextend myself.
I also have provided below a handful of questions for me to get an idea of the kind of Super you would like to play. Not sure how much interest this will garner but I am pretty stoked for it and with only 2 spots open I will be looking for really interesting character concepts that wow me! During actual character creation I will have additional questions to really flesh out our world and your character. I am looking for a posting rate of 4 posts a week from players. Maybe more often from me, but I like the wiggle room if something happens IRL.
Introduction to Tantalus
Recent times have seen a slight surge or Super activity. Sure, they have probably been around since the dawn of time, but this new trend of high profile Supers is something new. After becoming aware of your calling as a Super and experimenting with your new abilities, you realize the good you can do for people and get to work, and boy is there a lot of work.
Ancient texts say that Earth once had a lot more open space, that there were many cities scattered across the world. They say there used to be more solid land. Something like that would be hard to even imagine now. The city of Tantalus is all you have ever known. The giant metropolis covers the entire continent and is surrounded by a great stormy sea that has proved impossible to cross. With such hard boundaries and limited real estate, Tantalus long ago began building up, rather than trying to expand out.
The privileged elite have always perched on the highest levels of the city, where they govern or scheme in their towers. With so much overhead, the lower levels of Tantalus (appropriately dubbed the Undercity) are a dark, dirty place to eke out a living.
Undercity is where you have always called home, and this is fortunate for its people. For now, they have a resident Super. Whether you protect by uplifting the community and being a paragon of truth and justice, or by dealing out a darker justice that cause most to fear you as much as love you, you are all that is standing between the innocent and those that would take advantage of them. The government police force wanting to halt your activities definitely make things more interesting as well…
If you are interested, please provide answers to the following questions regarding the concept you would like to play.
What is your power/skill?
Who are you without your power/skill (your alter-ego or dayjob)?
What do you care about?
What is your weakness?
This post is too long already and I was jumping all over the place, so if there is anything else I am missing just feel free to ask.
Thanks!
So I have been saving some space in my gaming schedule for this idea I have had, inspired by a project I participated in many years ago on another gaming site similar to this one. That project was much bigger than what I plan to do, but I think it will still be fun on a smaller scale.
I want to run a superhero game with each player having a dedicated thread just to their character’s story. So players will be mostly playing a duet game with me, super-focused on their Super. At certain points their stories will merge with those of other Supers and we will start a new temporary thread for co-op play. So for example, if Superman goes to Gotham to team up against a large threat he doesn’t think Batman can handle on his own. On a grander scale this would like be when the individual stories of the heroes combine when they form the Avengers, but after the threat is gone they go back to their own things.
The setting is a hodgepodge of other settings combined, with me just grabbing cool ideas from all over the place. Basically, the players will start their Super career in the slums of a super metropolis (think Coruscant from Star Wars only instead of an entire planet city it’s just roughly the size of the US) in Earth’s very distant future. The game will start out on the lower end of the power threshold, fighting crime bosses or low-power Super villains, and perhaps one day reaching out to larger scale and perhaps cosmic confrontations. All Supers will basically be vigilantes, as the government does not condone your activities. Being a vigilante in a dark, gritty city shouldn’t make you feel like you need a repurposed Batman costume though! Think outside the box!
The introduction to the setting provided below is the bulk of what I have prepared. I would like to work with my players to flesh it out further and play will be largely sandbox. I may railroad at times to connect storylines for co-op, but otherwise players will largely steer the story. The system I will be using is Tiny Supers, so this will be a pretty rules-lite game focusing mostly on narrative. I am still relatively new to GMing and the Tiny d6 system both so I will be looking for patient players that are okay with me screwing up a lot and making stuff up as I go. We will be using the standard character creation rules so 3 powers/traits.
I will be taking on 2 players to start, with the intention on adding 1 or 2 more in the future. While this may be just one game, I realize that splitting things up like this makes a bit more work for me and I don’t want to overextend myself.
I also have provided below a handful of questions for me to get an idea of the kind of Super you would like to play. Not sure how much interest this will garner but I am pretty stoked for it and with only 2 spots open I will be looking for really interesting character concepts that wow me! During actual character creation I will have additional questions to really flesh out our world and your character. I am looking for a posting rate of 4 posts a week from players. Maybe more often from me, but I like the wiggle room if something happens IRL.
Introduction to Tantalus
Recent times have seen a slight surge or Super activity. Sure, they have probably been around since the dawn of time, but this new trend of high profile Supers is something new. After becoming aware of your calling as a Super and experimenting with your new abilities, you realize the good you can do for people and get to work, and boy is there a lot of work.
Ancient texts say that Earth once had a lot more open space, that there were many cities scattered across the world. They say there used to be more solid land. Something like that would be hard to even imagine now. The city of Tantalus is all you have ever known. The giant metropolis covers the entire continent and is surrounded by a great stormy sea that has proved impossible to cross. With such hard boundaries and limited real estate, Tantalus long ago began building up, rather than trying to expand out.
The privileged elite have always perched on the highest levels of the city, where they govern or scheme in their towers. With so much overhead, the lower levels of Tantalus (appropriately dubbed the Undercity) are a dark, dirty place to eke out a living.
Undercity is where you have always called home, and this is fortunate for its people. For now, they have a resident Super. Whether you protect by uplifting the community and being a paragon of truth and justice, or by dealing out a darker justice that cause most to fear you as much as love you, you are all that is standing between the innocent and those that would take advantage of them. The government police force wanting to halt your activities definitely make things more interesting as well…
If you are interested, please provide answers to the following questions regarding the concept you would like to play.
What is your power/skill?
Who are you without your power/skill (your alter-ego or dayjob)?
What do you care about?
What is your weakness?
This post is too long already and I was jumping all over the place, so if there is anything else I am missing just feel free to ask.
Thanks!
