[Closed] Marvel: Variant Strain [FASERIP]

Welcome to The Borough! All the modern convention and convenience of modern city life, Quaint, friendly neighborhoods. Shopping, dining, parks, schools, offices. The perfect place!

Except, you're not supposed to be here. You had a different life. You are a hero, or were a hero in the place you came from. Here you seemed to be living a quiet "normal" life, until you woke up from that dream and the memories of your real life came flooding back.

In The Borough, everyone gets along. Everything is peaceful. Mutants, humans, inhumans, atlantean, all living side-by-side. Some of the faces you recognize. Some of the names are familiar but you never met them without a mask. Other heroes and villains living right next door to each other like they haven't been knocking each other's teeth out for years.

And it seems you're not the only one who has woken up to this fact. You thought you knew them, but each of them is slightly different. From another world. Can a group of variant heroes from across the multiverse band together and figure out what is going on?

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Ok. I've been mulling this idea over in my head for a while and I'm ready to pull the trigger.

I'm recruiting 6 heroes to uncover the secrets of The Borough.

Someone or something is stealing variants from across the multiverse and depositing them in this "bottled-city" and erasing their memories, giving them false, mundane lives. Our chosen team have all woken from the idealic dream and have to work together to find out what is going on and how to get home. If they don't they risk a massive incursion that could destroy all realities

System: This game will be using the system often refered to as FASERIP. It's the first time I've ever tried running it, and I've only played it for about three hours total. So there will be a learning curve. Be gentle.

Adult Content: Marvel comic book style action is a given. There will be punching and shooting and the like. There will be scantily clad or tightly costumed individuals. I'm not saying "Comics Code Authority Approved" all the time, but we're going to veil the gratuitous stuff.

This game is LGBT+ friendly and welcoming to all marginalized groups.

Character Restrictions: I want variants of Marvel characters, at least mostly. If you just have to play your Mutant, or Inhuman, or whatever OC I will allow it, but you will need to tie them to some established Marvel characters. I'm even willing to allow Amalgam characters if you really want to be that variants. Oh...and a villian character who reformed or was never a villian in theor world is fine also.

Experience Required: None. I'll be learning as I go as well. If you've got some experience with the system, input might be sought out from time to time.

Posting Frequency: 4-5 times a week seems good. I don't want an intense game

Specialized Software and Resources: None. All aspects of the game will be handled on this site.

How to Apply: Posting your preferred concept here in this thread, then follow this link to apply.

I created two different variants of the Marvel character Majik for two different systems before the GM finally vanished without ever running the game. The current variant is called Imajica. She is not built using FASERIP, but I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to find the Marvel stats in one of their character directories with levels in her abilities.

This is my system! 🤣

Oh, I have character-related questions, but I absolutely am interested in playing.

As far as characters go... I ran an alternate universe setting years ago, and I would be happy to bring that take on Captain America to the forums.

I've never even played a superhero game before but this is a great pitch and I'd like to try it.

Oh, I'd love to join. I've played a couple of sessions of FASERIP a long time ago. Not that I remember a lot about the system.
Can I play Squirrel Girl or Deadpool? They're humoristic characters and they may affect the general tone.
If you're aiming for something more serious, I'd go with Wolverine or Hulk.

I'd be interested in playing this. I'd love to bring Nightcrawler into the mix.

Liking all the ideas.

Oh I forgot to post a concept. I'd like to play Gambit.

I'm making a character sheet for the game. Should be ready in an hour or so.

I was deliberating on re-starting running a supers game, and FASERIP was one of the systems I was toying with, so I'm awfully tempted...

Do it, do it, do it!

The answer is always yes when it's FASERIP!

I just pulled out of three games to make time for some other stuff I'm doing, so it seems like it would be bad form to join a new game right after that. So I'm just here to say SO JEALOUS. Also, I played a ton of FASERIP back in the day. Love the system, and I would not expect it to be hard to pick up for anyone.

I shall simply play the role of...

Alright, I'm weak and will succumb. But so is my character Donald Blake, crippled physician, stripped off his memory, by Odin. ;) Or, for even more variant shenanigans, Donna Blake, an alternate universe version of Lady Thor, who loves Dr John Foster ...

(Happy to play a powered down version to balance things out, thanks to the variant universe idea it's easy enough to justify why this Thor isn't as strong here as he would be in his own universe.)

@timplausable that's a 👍 from me.

@bedzonell there was even a version of Jane that found the hammer first and disguised it as a hairbrush. She went by Thorsa...or something like that.

Yes! From the classic What If series in the 70s, it's Thordis iirc. I remember the hairbrush!

Somewhere out there is a dimension where every single person ever is gender-swapped (except non-binary folks, I suppose). Nikki Fury. Toni Stark. Nathaniel Romanov. Kevin Pryde. John Grey. Dr. Stephanie Strange. The list goes on...

I thought they were going to try that with the universe Ghost-spider was from, but they went a different direction.

Also, that is six people, so I'm closing up applications.