> friends want me to run superheroes campaign for them > ok.jpg > today they email me their characters > a foxman that bites people with poison > a straight Liliana Vess ripoff > a guy who shapeshifts into a miniature jetfighter and zips around the room shooting missiles at people > a "beemaster" who sends bees to attack people and sticks people to the ground with honey
Of the four I am vetoing all but the last one because it us the only one that even slightly appeals to me.
Why are superheroes RPGs always attract the chaotic randumb faggot crowd? It's a shit genre anyway and they only make it worse.
The first two are trashy, but the third is comedy gold, and the fourth is proper classic hero material.
"I've been stung by a radioactive bee, and now I have the power of BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES."
Andrew Reyes
If you can't handle an insect themed superhero who actually has powers related to their theme, an edgy furry, a shameless knockoff, and a transformer, what the fuck are you doing running a superhero game?
Jose White
> Has a group of friends that wants to play a game with me
> Reeeee shit characters
user, either they aren't your friends and don't know what to expect from you, you're not their friend but a shitty spoiled autist who doesn't know what to expect from his "friends", or my personal favourite "This is fake and gay bait and the reason you're here is because option 1 and 2 are also true."
Because otherwise you would talk to them like a person and have them explain their characters and what they wanted to get out of playing them, and work with them to fit something close to what they wanted into the game.
Logan Ross
Pain is used to much as character.
Easton Hughes
>Vetoing the guy that turns into a jetfighter
Parker Long
I ran a superhero game where half the players just made characters based on popular heroes. Deadpool wannabe two anime characters, a cyborg who's super smart, A mannequin with the ability to temporarily possess objects and phase through objects and a guy who plays the drums
what a crew
Christian Nelson
Jetfighter-man actually sounds rad as hell. I agree with you on Viliana Less and the other guy, though.
Levi Taylor
I don't see what's so chaotic randumb about those, and the last two sound like decent superheroes. Only one I would actually veto is the ripoff, and that only because trying to be a superhero while also being a necromancer is begging for trouble.
Ryan Gutierrez
>tfw always wanted to do a superhero rp >tfw anytime i try to join one, either everyone's a katana wielding kitsune or are TOO serious for my characters is it even possible for there to be a happy medium in roleplaying?
> a guy who shapeshifts into a miniature jetfighter and zips around the room shooting missiles at people lmao dude, that's a DC Comics character, the "Immoral Man-in-Darkness." Was a Chinese superhero who bonded with an alien spaceship.
Bentley Jenkins
Sounds like some dumb shit.
Joseph Jones
Actually it's gay as fuck and not at all conducive to an engaging story. Its a childish gimmick. It is why superhero stories are for fucking children.
Fuck this, I'm cancelling the campaign.
Caleb Ward
You are 100% correct.
Jacob Ward
Pop-culture "horde of zombies" necromancer, I agree with you. If you go with the older "spiritual medium" type of necromancer, it would work a lot better as a hero.
Of course, that's not what the player in OP's story was going for.
Gavin Williams
>Raising the dead >Desecrating the dead How is this even heroic Necromancers should be put down like the heretics they are.
Joshua Gutierrez
Did you just use "gay" as an unironic negative adjective?
Faggot.
Thomas Wright
So my players are in the ECHO (East Coast Hero's Organization) 76th Branch. They meet in conference room three of the civic center on Wednesdays at 7pm, right after Alcoholic's Anonymous.
The line up for non-player heroes is as follows: >Puppet Patriot A muppet actually controlled by three guys in black morph suits, dressed like Uncle Sam. >The Delivery Boys A duo of former UPS workers in their brown UPS van, use gadgets taken from undelivered packages >ARM STRONG 103 year old super soldier that served in WWII, he's senile. >Road Ronin White guy with a Japanese made motorcycle, trench coat, and katana >Skeleton Manny Italian mobster skeleton >Titanium Templar Giant guy in a power suit riding a horse, who is also in a power suit. >Salary Slasher Former door to door cutlery salesman turned armed vigilante
Do these sound reasonable?
Colton Diaz
>Necromancers should be put down like the heretics they are. As should all magic-users, goblinoids, demon or dragon-blooded, elves, unwed mothers, wearers of mixed fabrics, left-handed people, red-haired people, and anyone who cracks their knuckles.
Isaiah Hernandez
> a foxman that bites people with poison
But is he cute?
Gabriel Miller
>who is also in a power suit Titanium Templar best hero
Josiah Howard
The "-mancy" part of necromancy originally meant divination, not "any kind of magic." Necromancers communed with the spirits of the dead to predict the future.
Running with the "communing with the (lost) spirits of the dead" angle could get you a detective hero who terrorizes evildoers with ghosts. Potentially like a mix between Batman and Ghost Rider.
Ian Stewart
sounds like most Marvel C list superhero teams
OP you're an idiot and a sperg
Noah Wood
Mine ended up with some better characters. >Cell biologist turned superhero with not!magneto powers. >Private investigator with magical powers and lots of non-combat skills. >Barbowner with animu teleporting powers, regeneration, and a katana shotgun. Keeps the weeb down surprisingly. >Owl from Hunter X Hunter. Dude is sleeping half the time due to 60 hours/week work schedule.
Samuel Garcia
some would say playing games of pretend are also for children, so what's your point?
Also it's a fucking superhero game. If you're not gonna get creative with powers, the fuck are you playing for
Jayden Allen
>As should all magic-users, goblinoids, demon or dragon-blooded, elves, Up to here is not bad though.
>All these transformer fags Turning into a jet might be fun the first few times, but it gets stale fast and is only useful in wide open areas with lots of room to maneuver.
Matthew Campbell
Titanium Templar > The Delivery Boys > ARM STRONG > Skeleton Manny > Puppet Patriot > Salary Slasher >>>>>>>> Road Ronin
This is Canon.
Christopher Cook
t. child murderer
Bentley Campbell
>transformer No, I'm just a weeb.
Jacob Gray
That sounds just as fucking retarded as professional official superheroes like Superfag and Flash and the billions of other really bad clones.
Christian Barnes
>Miniature
Eli Turner
You are part of the problem if you think anything on that list is anything but utter fucking cancerous trash.
Aiden Reed
I found Jetfighter man
Jeremiah Howard
Well, to make it more creative, there could be other ways to utilize the power. Like, instead of transforming 100%, you could just turn your hand into the guns or put a rocket on your elbow for ROCKET PUNCHES, or you could put wings + rocket on your back only for simple flight. Could turn your arm into a wing and use that as a shield, et cetera. I assume that if you're turning into a jetplane, you also have radio, scanners, and shit, so you could do something creative with that too.
Tyler Flores
>turning stretchy might be fun the first few times >turning invisible might be fun the first few times >turning into an indestructible monster might be fun the first few times >turning into a human torch might be fun the first few times
Kevin Morales
I can understand. That one has the potential to go to some uncomfortable places.
Aiden Edwards
There is nothing super heroic about a jet. >Can't transform because in hallway >Can't transform because In alleyway >Can't transform because Bound with rope >Can't transform because underground >Can't transform because There's no 300 foot long path wide enough to rise off and be useful.
>Miniature bullets can't hurt bad guys >Miniature plane can't carry anyone because no hands and not enough power >Rockets are really like fireworks >Get shot out of air by any bullet or any punch.
Brody Hernandez
okay, we all in a troll thread, I get it now. pretendingtoberetarded/10
Noah Carter
Did you not read the word "miniature?"
Elijah Taylor
>Barbowner I think he meant to say Bar owner
Luke Wilson
Is skeleton manny's power being Italian, a mobster, or a skeleton?
Michael Garcia
Both.
Brayden James
They hit with the power of regular sized bullets/rockets. Because of the Spee- I mean Jet Force.
Jaxon Myers
Weird that you bring that up, I actually played a ghost detective in a mutants and masterminds game that did pretty much that. For direct combat he was more like Danny Phantom, since I took phase and ectoplasmic bolt
Jose Cruz
>> a guy who shapeshifts into a miniature jetfighter and zips around the room shooting missiles at people
it takes guts
Easton Rogers
What is the power level chart?
Adam Peterson
these concepts are JJBA tier
OP must hate fun
Connor Morales
>Get Rope >Put weight on end >Attach to Mini Plane >Re-enact Hoth Snowspeeder scene >Or become flying mace
Jason Turner
How do you scale powers in your game? What categories/classifications do you have? Personally I have a basic system of (rough power description) + #. So a guy who could lift a car with his mind would be a telekinetic 4, while a person who could open portals of any size to any location within 10,000 miles would be a teleporter 10. Some are exceptions and given the number 11, which means they are the strongest alive in that category, 12 is for the strongest to ever live in that category.
Lucas Edwards
op is a faggot.
Samuel Morris
What? No other bee themed superheroes yet?
Justin Thomas
In my personal list of superhero ideas I rank them by the area they protect. MnM has it's own system for that though.
Hunter Garcia
>Hurr, I shit on characters that are literally from all variety of ages of comics. >Hurr, badwrongfun is being had. >There's no way that fun can be had by a basic exploration of the various ages of comics.
You don't even inspire me to anger; you've bored me. You're boring me. And your probably going to continue to bore me.
>katana shotgun ? Is it a katana that shoots or a gun that shoots katanas?
Chase Davis
In my current game we have the following
Gadget using 1950's era "futuristic spaceman"
Batman Knockoff
Psychic ninja who puts people to sleep with a single touch
Alien Narcoleptic Birdman
A weather-controller greenpeace member
and an android who wants to be human and modeled himself after Data from Star Trek as his idol.
We spend more time (sleeping, eating, bickering) than fighting crime.
Jason King
This is a troll thread. You didn't even mention a system.
Ryder Miller
This thread essentially just straight up shows that OP and anyone like him is just an uninspired hack that can't run anything if it goes off the conventional path and is even slightly different. While I can relate to being irked by cloning a character concept, the characters all had potential to be interesting. Note: Potential. But of course, much like a mouth-breathing teenager, all OP sees is "SO WEIRDDD AMIRITE GUISE" where as actual GMs see characters and might already be visualising how that might play out. Easiest route out of many being playing this as a non-serious satire of the cape genre, but no, into the trash it goes, hurr please do my job for me and INSPIRE ME PLEASEEE PLAYERS I CAN'T THINK ABOUT ANYTHING MYSELF! I ONLY WATCHED AVENGERS!
Not to mention the fact that you already can dismiss an entire genre is a good tell you're not a GM, let alone a man capable of stories.
Cooper Johnson
Literally nobody cares about your furry shit.
Yiff in hell furfag
Eli Bell
Reminds me of Worm.
Asher White
I don't understand why any other version of playing pretend is more mature than playing fucking superheroes.
Lincoln Jenkins
So DC comics then?
I agree, DC is trash.
Dylan Morales
Duh, that's his weakness. If he doesn't have room to take off, he can't fly and can just wheel around very slowly shooting missiles. That's a pretty good weakness.
Gabriel Phillips
Yeah. Basically worms classification is what my group uses since half of us have read it.
Logan Watson
A katana and the katana sheath turns into some kind of shotgun via transformation.
Brayden Rogers
Secondary power: when you turn into a jet (I'm guessing a jet with the same mass as a human,) the tiny pilot can leave the cockpit and go out on adventures that require a tiny man.
Julian Peterson
Ain't you heard? Superheroes are for mature adults such as myself now.
Jose Hughes
>Its a childish gimmick So in other words...it's a superhero. Truly, a roleplaying sin if ever there was one.
Carson Turner
> negative adjective
'pejorative'
u juz lernd a nu wrd
Juan Lewis
I just wrapped up a game with a bee master.
Good stuff! let them run with it!
Jace Rodriguez
Those sound like fun characters.
Could be worse. You could have a bunch of min/maxers.
I had a player make a superhero that was just a normal for the most part, but could go into an all powerful mode (described as Superman Prime levels of power) any time he wanted except it only lasted for a total of ten seconds, BUT he had the ability to turn it on and off in a faction of a second. Ten seconds is not a drawback if you can win battles in a fraction of a second.
The rest of the players had similar "drawbacks."
Zachary Fisher
> not just playing Weaver Dice > not forcing them to use Futhark Generator
Dominic Edwards
Wonderfully dumb
Jackson Ramirez
Why did you let your player rip off All Might? Why did you let him rip off All Might except exponentially stronger and without All Might's crippling boneitis?
Michael Young
Aquaman is the same and everyone loves him
Mason Wright
>Not pitting them against The Day of Anger, a Muslim themed group of villains who want to bring death to the West in a single day
You should have your GM licence revoked. I don't care.
Julian Cook
Thanks, I knew there was a word for that but I couldn't bring the word to mind. That's actually being bugging me
Ian Allen
Nobody loves Aquaman, don't lie.
Jackson Perry
Aquaman is love m8
Levi Diaz
Microjet Man sounds like the shit.
Zachary Roberts
Make it a harrier you dumb faggot.
Camden Wood
How would you even scale that on a 1 to 10? What's the difference between a 2 and 3? Or a 5 and 6?
James Lopez
Just talk the jetfighter down to an attack helicopter and it could work. Maybe even have them take on helicopter features like inspector gadget-style rotor blades.
Blake Ross
>Potentially like a mix between Batman and Ghost Rider. Damn, now I want to play this.
Colton Russell
I know right; the image of three guys clad in black working together to make a muppet fight crime is hilarious. Just imagine the first time he shows up in a dark room beating up villians until they turn on the lights and see the three guys awkwardly moving him around.
Nigga he's transforming into a miniature jet, I think we can pretend his bullets are lethal, his carrying strength is 500 lbs, and his rockets are goddamn RPGs.
Jonathan Lee
Is vetoing really preferable over work-shopping the characters into something appealing for you?
> a foxman that bites people with poison Foxman like Batman, or Foxman like Manbat? A guy that dresses up in a vaguely fox like suit anesthetizing people could be neat. > a straight Liliana Vess ripoff Why is this one particularly egregious? I'd expect a fem necromancer demonic something or whatever it is Vess is can be tolerably done. > a guy who shapeshifts into a miniature jetfighter and zips around the room shooting missiles at people Didn't somebody mention a jet plane transformation fetishest in a that guy thread last month? I could swear somebody, oh . Why not just use a not-ironman suited or cybornetic character? Same thing as a fighter jet, just in a man sized profile. > a "beemaster" who sends bees to attack people and sticks people to the ground with honey this seems like a fun character for a comedic setting.