World Building

Drop your character pitches and world dynamic ideas here!

I was originally going to play my character "The Ox" as a PC, but I'm realizing his power isn't really in line with the other amazing ideas I've seen so far. Luckily, he's a trust fund baby, so "Oxford Emmet Gennison, PhD, Chemist at Gennison Yachts and Luxury" will be your villainous patron instead.

Some of us have played "MASKS" and I really like the idea that famous heroes and villains are the source of the world's equivalent of DC and Marvel. I'd like to include that here, just from a cultural standpoint.

The character I am looking at is not named yet, but I'll calle her Becks for now. The idea is a young woman who tried to join a hero team a few years ago, but was not selected. What happened was, another recruit made fun of her weight, so during the tryout, Becks did not act when she could have and the bully took a bad hit. It wasn't lethal, but the recruiter washed her out. Becks got angry and decided to become a villain. Problem is she doesn't have a goal or real drive so joining a gang seems like a good starting point to find herself.

Her powers are "tactile telekinesis" like the 90s Superboy. She can fly, stop projectiles (as long as she knows they are coming), and lift nearly anything she touches. But her powers only extend about 3 millimeters away from her skin...so ahe can't throw things very far.

I also like the idea of Famous Heroes and Villains. In addition...what about a world like My Hero Academia...where nearly everyone has some sort of power, but most are not useful to the life of hero and villain?

My character is a thief who thinks that she is cool, suave. and extremely social. She is not. But she is a decent thief. She's never been caught, but that has less to do with her skill and more to do with her ability.
When she panics, or feels a very intense emotion (but mostly fear) she turns into a house cat. She has no control over thus, but maybe during the game she will. You know all those "I don't even own a cat" memes? that's her.
Usually someone leaves a door open, a window open, or tosses her out before she turns back. So she's been pretty lucky so far.

Hmm, hard to choose what kind of hero I want to play without knowing what the setting's like. Is it like a lighthearted spoof on classic comic books, a wacky Saturday cartoon, a grounded fiction with some incidental humor, etc.?

More the first two. Honestly I've also got a vibe in the back of my mind of the "sidekick" classes from "Sky High," if you've seen that movie. Seemingly ridiculous powers, but actually viable when given a chance (and some practice, and some luck).

My idea for a character is one who doesn't have many years left in her life. With the time she has left, she wants to leave her mark in history, and figured that notoriety was her style. Wears her medical support system as a power armor. Even though she's pretty much doomed, she's not too down about it, and is generally a boisterous and vivacious soul.

The Spectacular Tentacular, or Tentacular for short, flexi-limbed, many appendages when necessary, a bit of an oversized head (and ego to match, at one point), kinda like Mr Fantastic without being fantastic. Great with heists and petty crime and stretching from rooftop to rooftop, even better for crushing hugs and suction cupping. Way cooler in pre-2000s before the Deadpool-types cornered the market on off-colour humour.

Now a has-been, ever since the Teen Titanics, the premier former sidekick turned young superhero team started calling him Squidward and made it their point to take turns to defeat him at every turn in the most embarrassing ways possible. No one took him seriously after that. Now very very grouchy, Tentacular is looking for any opportunity to prove that he is no laughing stock.

Teen Titanics is the team my character tried to join then. I like this group so far.

Heh, please feel free to suggest a better name for them. All I did was blatantly rip off a placeholder name :D

I'm still struggling with the name of my PC. Your NPC team name is fine.

Do you want us to make our characters now @lavtodd? If so, how are superpowers going to be represented?

Yeah, everyone has a pretty good feel for their characters, I think. Go ahead and make characters as usual, since the villains are still pretty normal. To adjust for our game:
* Your first Habit must be your power.
* You need to include a "downfall" in your notes that will generally trigger either dice or RP disadvantage. Turning into a cat when panicked, lack of street cred, etc.
* I don't care which scale is tied to your power. Whatever fits your vision is fine by me.

Here's the book, and here's a blank character sheet you can copy. Please review the High Magic examples here so we're all on the same page with what's generally possible (of course the Low Magic examples are on the table, too). The nice part is, by making it a Habit, you should in theory be able to succeed on your checks more often than not.

Here's a sample sheet for Quinlan Gallagher, AKA Quantum Gal. She can manipulate light - as long as she's not observing it.

Working on character sheet now. Which picture do you think I should go with?

+Enough of character shown to give idea of what they look like, while leaving room for interpretation
+Looks like it can take a solid hit
+Looks like it can contain medical equipment
-Not a design that screams a desire for notoriety to me+Full view of character
++Has cat
-Doesn't look like it can take a solid hit
-Doesn't look like it can have medical equipment+Looks like it could be made out of medical equipment
+Looks like it can take a hit
+Distinctive look (I edited in the green line)
-No view of character

I personally like option 2 even though it leaves the least up to interpretation character wise. Something about the other mech suits look too custom to me, if that makes sense. Like, not having full body armor better implies the initial hodge podge nature of things. Also cat.

But that's just me. They're all cool images

I am the cat in the image

Knowing that her temper is directly tied to it, I think it can work.

Also, you're villains working for a villain. They'll probably try to twist the knife now and then.