Character Spitballing

Use this thread to brainstorm and share your potential character options with other players as well as an arena to ask questions of your GM, Slay.

To start, here's the Questworlds SRD. Character creation is found on page 33.

I'm making a really strong guy. Again, my first thought is WWE Hulk, since I like WWE and I like Hulk, but I might do something else if another idea jumps out at me.

I have a Spider-Woman, Jessica Drew variant in mind. One from the Venom-verse, so she and her symbiote go by Poison now.

How are we handling Abilities? Jessica Drew is a S.H.E.I.L.D. trained super spy, and an modified human with powers, and my version has the symbiote also. I was thinking the "nested" or Umbrella method looked useful.

I think I can make it work either way, but grouping things under those different umbrellas allows for things to be "shut down" like if someone takes the symbiote. Or Mutants is another good argument for Umbrella. A lot of people have technology that shuts off powers in mutants. It might make it easier to delineate which abilities are part of the Powers and which are just their natural abilities.

Here's a first stab at Nightcrawler. I'm new to QuestWorlds, so I'm thinking of Abilities through the lens of Aspects in the Fate RPG (which might not be a perfect analogy). Anyway, feedback is appreciated! :-)

Name
Kurt Wagner (Nightcrawler)

Abilities
BAMF! and I teleport
Blends with shadows
Prehensile tail
Wall-crawler
Trained to resist mental attacks
X-Men team training
Former circus trapeze artist
Really a kind-hearted fuzzy elf
Fluent in many languages
Swashbuckling bravado
Devout Catholic
Always watching from the shadows

Flaws
Monstrous visage
Religious code

I'm guessing we all get feedback on our characters and Abilities for a bit before we firm up the Abilities and then move on to assigning ratings to Abilities? (the ratings part of character creation is on page 34 in the SRD PDF once we get to that stage).

I was wondering if nested / Umbrella was an option or not as well. If it's an approach we can use, I'll do some more thinking about how to group things.

I think that's a good start on a Nightcrawler. But I think the game intends you to pick one to be your Concept Ability. Much like a High Concept in Fate. I'm not sure which if any of those apply.

You could maybe trade out "Trained to resist mental attacks" for a concept like "Swashbuckling Mutant Freedom-fighter". I feel, the "trained to resist mental attacks" could be covered by "X-Men Team Training". But if defer to our GM on how important the Concept is an ability.

Great feedback Dreamblade! I'll get our GMs feedback and make adjustments.

And this is where I'm at on Poison:

Concept: Sardonic Super-Spy

Abilities:
Femme Fatale
S.H.I.E.L.D Protocols
Former H.Y.D.R.A. Villain
Polyglot

Radioactive Spider Enhancements
Bio-Electric Blasting
Contaminant Immunity
Air Gliding

Alien Symbiote Relationship
Eyes on the Back of my Head
Bio-mass Redistribution

Flaws:
Sound and Flame Vulnerability
Guilt of an Absentee Mother

My favorite mutant has always been Magneto (I'm a metallurgist and his powers would be very useful at my job), but he's kinda OP. I'm thinking maybe a child of Magneto who instead of having all his stuff, can melt and reform metal that he touches into whatever shape. I'll flesh out the rest if this works. For flaws, I'm thinking daddy issues (struggles with how to feel when Magneto is around) and insecurity surrounding his abilities (due to the obvious comparison to his father).

Thoughts?

I like it. There was a character like that in the comic at one point. Magnus or something. Son of Rogue and Magneto. He had his father's powers and a version of his mother's curse. People he touched skin-to-skin became metal.

You don't have to make him OP though. It could be a younger Magneto, someone not as skilled with their powers. I mean...we're looking at having a Hulk on the team. The narrative structure of the game means you decide how OP he is. He doesn't have to be gathering iron from peoples blood and knocking down whole city blocks in one go.

Yeah. I googled Magnus and it looks like he was even an Exile, so I'm thinking I'll pick him (or at least some version of him, I don't know all his background lore aside from what's on his wiki).

Magnus Lehnsherr


Abilities
Electro-magnetic energy manipulation
Hovering Flight
Force Field
Transmutation to metal
Energy blasts
Shape/reconstitute metal
Bio-armor
Resistance to heat
Killing touch (instant statue-maker)
High intelligence
Powerful parents
Secret identity

Flaws
Antisocial-reclusive
Not a hugger (negative health consequences for bare skin touching)

Here's Poison

Here is Magnus

Great stuff! Sorry, in the middle of completing my business' taxes. I'll contribute my thoughts soon!

Hello everyone!

We'll continue to use this thread for character creation questions and brainstorming. If you are interested in warping or reconfiguring your own idea with something random, you can send me a few numbers between 1 and 400,000 and I will reply, either privately or here in the thread, with your ability/concept results.

To elucidate with an example, if you gave me the numbers 478, 20942, and 97, you results would be:

478 - Wealthy financier
20942 - Pyro-titan (artifact creation: flaming shield and lance)
97 - Altered human

From there you can remodel your results or drop them entirely :)

Well, I'm really torn on which of the many characters i always have in the back of my brain that I want to play. Anybody got thoughts on what they want to do?

Just spitballing but we could base ourselves on a trope like The Five Man Band?

You could always try adding some randomness to your potential character stack by providing me with a couple of numbers between 1 and 400,000 and use those results to alter what you may have in mind.