More Memorial Day Pictures and Super Heroes

[orikes]

These are kinda belated, but here they are.













In other news, my gaming group is FORCING me to try and run a game. I'm going with a super hero game since that's the genre I know best and no one else is interested in running. They're all willing to play in it, but no one loves it quite enough to run it. Just little old me.

Currently the plan is to have the entire group start off as normal people who, through a variety of circumstances I already have worked out in my head, develop super powers. This way it gives them a chance to learn the system along with learning their powers at the same time. And, because they're developing them in game, it's no big deal to tweak them a couple of sessions in if they're not happy with how they're working.

I've got five players. One likes the cosmic power and the versatility that offers. I was hoping he'd go with his original idea which was 'the guy who can't die'. I would have had more fun helping develop the powers and stories for that one. His wife wants someone who has the ability to travel in space without a spaceship. That's easy enough, but making sure she's useful on the planet is going to be a bit trickier. The other girl in the group just said, "Mental type. Kinda like a cross between Jean Grey and Rogue!" I'm pretty sure she only has the movies to go off of. One of the guys is in love with trying to emulate Jack Jack from Incredibles. (Hi skotte!) The final player.. I have no idea what I'm going to do with him. He's gone from "I want to fly!" to a deaf dominatrix (long story) with sonic powers to ... I have no idea, but I imagine the idea will probably change by tomorrow when we get together to make characters.

God help me with this. I've been a gamer since 1986 and I've never actually run a game of my own. I guess I should get it in before my twentieth anniversary when it comes to gaming. Yeowch. Anyway, wish me luck. :)

Comments

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

Well, the guy wanting Jack-Jack doesn't want to play a baby. He just likes the random nature of the power set. I'm thinking maybe it can be done with Alternate Form. Maybe. I'll have to take a peek at it some more.

I think, from talking to him, that he may end up with something a similar to Quintessence and based around elements with a bit of randomness thrown in. I know how I would do that in Champions, but need to figure out how to do it in M&M now.

Of course, if I'm wrong, speak up now, Skotte. ;)

[skotte.livejournal.com]

You got it exactly .. The powerset of Jack-Jack is interesting. Tho 7th_son makes a good point: he really only has the power of Whatever-is-fFunny. I do have the concern of having too many powers, or too broad a power spectrum.

However, An idea I have been treading into is making the character a teenager, rather wild and kind of emotionally unstable sometimes. And thus, prone to semi-wild fFits of powers, having little or no control over them. If a teenager is too, you know, conventional or something, i could go the crazy-person route. again, very little control over how the powers act and when. Might have a random-table of stuff which might happen when provoked.

But that's stuff I don't know if can be done, or is even necesarry. You do know more about the system than me.

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

Remember, you're making a person without powers first. The powers won't influence your character until you actually get them in game. (I think Woody is forgetting this too.)

And a teenager is fine. :)

I think I actually have a fairly good idea how to give you an interesting power set with what you're interested in. I think your character will be fun.