Remembered Places - The Worst Setting

Is that an actual game that happened? Because that sounds terrible.

I hate people who think they're so clever by making a grimdark X-men universe where superhumans are universally hated to a ludicrous degree.

Are there any good
>realistic
superhero settings?

I fucking love this.

Worm?

Besides "Everyone is a Dick" Worm.

Yeah. Played it over roll20 text only. The party ended up falling out because theplot never seemed to go anywhere besides "Run, hide, repeat". No rebel group, no resistance fighters, and no reason for the blatant hate boner everyone had for superhumans.

In my experience, 5e and D&D in general trivializes torches because every single non-human race has some form of darkvision. Not because of light spells.

It's hard to define what's realistic in a superhero setting, because it's hard to gauge how exactly people would react. Depending on how common or how strong they are as well, that changes things further.

I personally don't try to concern myself with it. Trying to deconstruct the superhero setting and just having them all bagged by federal agents and used as bioweapons might be realistic to some degree, but that's going to be a lame setting to try and be a superhero in. At that point, it'd be more fun to play the mundane agents dealing with rogue metahumans.

My preferred 'realistic' outcome is for the government to essentially offer every superpowered individual they can a job as a civil servant with a sizable paycheck. In return, the superpowered individual can either just sort of laze around and not break anything, or use their powers to fight crime in a somewhat official capacity.

What a boring setting.

>Adventurer Insurance

>Pays off if your shit gets wrecked by PCs.
>Kingdom Companies, Ye Farme of State, Digressive.
>Squads of "Adjusters" are send out to seek recompense from adventurers who cause too much in the way of payout. Eventually they just send hit squads.