Hybrid World (Inactive)

Game Master Reckless

The Hybrid World is a mix of some DC and some Marvel content, but without mysticism, magic, extreme levels of high tech, gods, cosmic entities, or an overwhelming amount of super-powered beings.

While there are alien races out there, so far, a lone Kryptonian, several Kree, and Martians in Exile are the only known visitors to Earth.

See the Campaign tab for a timeline.

Looking for mutants, inhumans, deviants, super soldiers, mutates, and other freaks to form the world's greatest heroes.

Looking to do a PL 12 campaign.

Something is coming from the stars and Earth will need defenders.

Hey Reckless,

Is this 3rd edition?

So you killed off Clark fighting Phoenix in the history. How about a half-Kryptonian in the vein of Amalgam Super Soldier and DC Superboy? Some sort of genetic experiment to create a super defender with Kryptonian powers.

Yes, third edition.

That could definitely work, sure.

So PL 12 and 180 power points?

Working on three ideas. Kryptonian clone as stated above. Batman protege exposed to a radioactive spider and now all grown up (Dick Grayson meets Peter Parker), and Green Lantern Marvel character. Since we are facing a Cosmic villain, a Cosmic hero makes sense.

Reckless, do you want versions of DC/Marvel characters or OCs? I shouldn't take up many more games, but I liked your Amalgam game idea and this could be fun.

One option I'm thinking of is an android version of DC's Wendy Cutler (Calculator's daughter) that I have in my alias list (Proxy 2.0) whose background I'd need to rework. The hybrid verse could make her something more like a female Vision.

Another option I'm thinking of is a version of the Dryad or another member of the Daughters of Liberty (introduced in Ta-Nehisi Coates run--a covert organization of female freedom fighters in operation since the American Revolution. While in Marvel Comics 616 (f#&+ Kevin Feige and the MCU for taking the same number, it makes these conversations so f@+&ing confusing) the organization has some higher powered/magic members like Agatha Harkness, most of the characters are more skilled/suited-up/cyber-augmented members which means it should probably work in your world? This character would probably not be Cosmic-Cube resurrected Peggy but probably an OC former SHIELD agent pulling from a few sources of inspiration.

Final questions: Are the Amazons in any form in this hybrid world?

Oooh, I could do a version of Spiderman if we're doing variations. I have some ideas. I also have some OC ideas I could work up.

Is this based out of a city, going all over the globe, or cosmic?

So really great questions, folks.

You do have several options and everything mentioned so far seems like fair game. Also, you could make up your own completely new character rather than a Marvel, DC, Amalgam, or Hybrid-style character. Mind, I like the Hybrid Style ones coming, they really seem to capture the spirit here, I just don't want to limit anyone's imaginings beyond the already posted restrictions about magic, coming back from the dead, supernatural, etc....

Yes, PL 12 is 180 PP.

Amazons? Potentially, but if they are they've been hidden up to this point (no WW II Wonder Woman), and they would need a rework around for their issues with the Greek Gods and immortality. Maybe something to do with Vandal Savage's meteor?

Global with some possibility of heading out into the cosmos and then returning to global, Philo, but primarily focuses global.

How "Newbie Friendly" is Mutants & Masterminds? While I'm not new to roleplaying, d20, 5e, or Pathfinder, and I'm a total Comic Book geek, I've never played that system. (Do I get points for having played Marvel Super Heroes / FASERIP?)

As an aside, I really dig the history rewrite you've got for this game. Very cool stuff with lots of nerdy easter eggs.

How "Newbie Friendly" is Mutants & Masterminds? While I'm not new to roleplaying, d20, 5e, or Pathfinder, and I'm a total Comic Book geek, I've never played that system. (Do I get points for having played Marvel Super Heroes / FASERIP?)

Mutants and Masterminds is pretty newbie friendly if you stick with the Archetypes and don't try to drive yourself crazy with the minutia of power creation.

I recommend the Basic Hero's Handbook both because it's currently on sale and is newbie friendly while allowing you to adapt the Archetypes in several different ways for customization.

The basics of M&M is still roll a d20 and add your modifiers against a target number. There are degrees of success with each 5 points over the TN generating an additional degree of success. The most "radical" change from other d20 systems is Toughness instead of Hit Points, where your damage on a successful hit is resisted by the target's toughness comparing success levels to determine the outcome (from nothing all the way to KO'd/killed)

As an aside, I really dig the history rewrite you've got for this game. Very cool stuff with lots of nerdy easter eggs.

Thanks, I'm an eighties/nineties X-Men fan and a pretty big fan of what Marvel's done in bringing stuff to life with the MCU and some of the TV shows, as willing to gloss over the flaws as I was when reading the comics. My DC knowledge is a bit more limited, having been a Legion fan back in the early eighties and a huge fan of World's Greatest Detective Batman who has some dislike for the movies for not ever really showing that side of him. I've enjoyed the Batman cartoons way more than the movies.

You get a No Prize for being a FASERIP fan, best I can do :)

Ok, I'm off to shop and read!

I have a FASERIP character I'd like to port over that I had on here. Kinda of a Gadgeteer type

Here is the FASERIP version, daughter of a former pair of villains with the Gimmick of Juggling to use her fathers moniker as a heroine fighting crime with her simple powers and excellent mind.

I like what I'm seeing. Pretty straight-forward and relatable game to anyone who's played D20 games.

While it might change, my first thought was to play as Richard Jones, a teenager living in Central City who had snuck into a scientific research center on a dare...when cyber-terrorists from A.I.M. showed up and attacked the lab of Dr. David Bruce Banner, world reknowned expert in gamma radiation.

In the ensuing battle with ( insert SuperHero name tbd that will be helpful to the DM's storyline ), a massive gamma explosion was set off, but was somehow instantaneously absorbed, miraculously bonding Rick and Dr. Banner into the gamma-energy fuelled Powerstorm! (Kind of a Hulk/Firestorm mash-up)

...or something like that.

Thinking that he'd be an energy controller with the elementalist power suite.

Might alter it to be the bastard daughter of Oliver Queen and a woman known as the Chuckles ( A female-inspired Joker, who grew up in a s=circus thinking an unknown mutant with powers similar to the super soldier serum, plus some enhanced movement.) She grows up in the Circus of Crime, her family was Chuckles (Now the Ring Master) and various other lesser villains, who go around the country committing crimes. She learned she was similar to her mother (Enhanced Jumping, Hand-Eye Coordination, reflexes) and the skills of her family( THe rest of the Circus) She leaves the circus for college and becomes a costumed hero after her family was arrested. She takes the name of her father (Step-Father) Oddball.

How about an Atlantean?

I was thinking about an Aquaman weather controller. Something like Fathom from Willingham’s Elementals if you know it.

Something like Fathom from Willingham’s Elementals if you know it.

Right up there with Nexus and Grimjack in my book.

Right up there with Nexus and Grimjack in my book.

Hmm. Hope that's good.

Wow. I just read your timeline, very hybrid and cool. Should easy to craft a backstory into the timeline. Obviously, Atlantis per se cannot exist, so some aquatic mutant it is.

cheers

Wow. I just read your timeline, very hybrid and cool. Should easy to craft a backstory into the timeline. Obviously, Atlantis per se cannot exist, so some aquatic mutant it is.

cheers

I agree. My mind boggles with possibilities!

Hmm... My muse has gone to the pink side. Blinx - Blink/Jinx (more the TV version than comics.)

a speculation they considered confirmed when Castle kills Jack Napier, aka the Joker

Hey, does anyone know how I can favorite a Campaign Tab, because that is AMAZING!

Also, someone needs to shut up and take my money so I can get a movie showing a fight between Legion and Superman!

I was just going to throw something together, but with so sweet a setting as that, this calls for something special.

Hey Reckless, can my character start with a friendly-ish relationship with Tony Stark?

Totally would love to be in!

Reckless wrote:

a speculation they considered confirmed when Castle kills Jack Napier, aka the Joker

Hey, does anyone know how I can favorite a Campaign Tab, because that is AMAZING!

Also, someone needs to shut up and take my money so I can get a movie showing a fight between Legion and Superman!

I was just going to throw something together, but with so sweet a setting as that, this calls for something special.

Hey Reckless, can my character start with a friendly-ish relationship with Tony Stark?

Don't we need to ask if it's TOny Stark or Ted Kord first!?!?

Here's Jubal's submission: mutant aquatic, weather controller.

Mostly complete. Will continue to tweak.

cheers

Hey Reckless, I've got this conversation (and character idea) in my head that will just -not- leave me alone. I'll just throw this out there and...well let's see how it strikes us. =}

***ahem****

"Not a great plan," he said. He was right.

"There are risks involved," I conceded, poring myself a glass of his good stuff. Tony didn't drink like he had, but he still kept a fine board, and I respected a man strong enough to keep his demons in their cage. "And we are out of time."

He stayed silent. That meant I had to press the attack.

"With Sinister on one side and mutants on the other, what choice does Humanity have? You've made progress in your Man Of Steel program, and the Mark I is ready for human trials. All we need is a candidate with the intelligence to respect it for what it is."

I finished my drink and put the glass down with a little bow. He hadn't stopped me. That was that.

"So you are Tony Stark and the program is Man Of Steel, but then what am I? I. I? I...."

"I...am Ironman."

Ha! I know! Awesome, right?

It's gonna take me awhile to get the math on this put oh man this SO needs to happen! =]

Blinx isn't working out so well. But a new inspiration has come up.

Kurt Wagner was orphaned twice. Once when he was abandoned, and once when his circus family was killed. The Batman was investigating the massacre at the circus when he found the child. Adopting him and raising him as his ward and as a vigilante, Raven. Now that he is an adult, he is stepping away from the Bat's shadow to fight crime on his own terms. He is Nightwing.

I am working on a super clone submission. I am currently dealing with the complication that I don’t have electricity, so I’m not sure what the timeline is for submissions, but I might miss it.

Am I understanding the background correctly that there wasn’t really a Superman, Clark died before being established? Just trying to figure out backstory.

I am working on a super clone submission. I am currently dealing with the complication that I don’t have electricity, so I’m not sure what the timeline is for submissions, but I might miss it.

Am I understanding the background correctly that there wasn’t really a Superman, Clark died before being established? Just trying to figure out backstory.

Oof. No electricity is tough.

I think I can field that question though. (I can neither confirm nor deny that I've memorized the Campaign tab. ^_^)

2008 Phoenix's bloodlust overtakes his already unstable mind as he seeks to eradicate the last of the Kree, consuming the city of Metropolis in the process. A young Clark Kent races from his relatively nearby home to face off against the older mutant. Their battle wipes out a good portion of the midwest and ends with both dead.

I got that part, Atlas. Just wasn’t sure if this was like a Smallville situation where he was mostly under the radar, or a whole Superboy thing, or how is his sacrifice thought of by people.

Hey! I'm new to the forms but a long-term RPG player and DM and comic book fan and this really got my gears turning! I have a bit of familiarity with M&M, but it’s been a couple years since I used the system.

initial idea for me is Amelia DuBose an opera singer in Sterling City who is Oliver Queen’s much younger occasional mistress.

Recently during her premier performance in the title role of Stravinsky’s The Nightingale her spotlight started acting strangely, changing its size and color seemingly without anyone manning it. the changes did, however, seem to follow changes in her voice, as it rose in pitch the light became brighter and tighter around her as it lowered they dimmed and stretched to wash out the entire stage. By the end of the first song, she sang she almost seemed to be creating her own light. A fact which proved true when she walked off stage. After seeing this the rest of the show was cancelled and Amelia’s management team came into the theatre to examine the spotlight, they found that the lens on it was imbued with radioactive particles of color filter.

Amelia herself found that she now produced light whenever she sang, by altering the sound she could change the intensity, color, and placement of that light. She vowed to try to keep this as secret as she could but wanted to start testing what she could do and keep preforming. She began attempting to incorporate this newfound ability into her performances and formed a partnership with a lighting designer who took credit for the new “technology” as they called it. Well she trained herself in her shows she also began doing what she could in secret to help Starling City initially working as a hidden aid to the police who billed her the Dazzling Canary.

If there's anything I need to rewrite or change please let me know, the goal was a hybrid of Black Canary and Dazzler and I expect that within the next couple of days I'll make a couple changes and add to this but I'm going to try to get some mechanics together for now!

I will for sure need to re-read the Hybrid World overview a few times, but wow, that's awesome.

The Super-Soldier serum given to Steve Rogers was a miracle of its time, but there are more dangerous things out there than Hydra.

Most of the facilities of Project Cadmus were destroyed in the battle that destroyed Metropolis, but key scientists survived deep in the sub-levels. After the battle, Stark (and Luthor?) saw to the recovery of the remains of the Alien and the mutant known as Phoenix. And tracing the Alien to his origins turned up a bio-pod that gave them access to technology that took years to reverse engineer. But now they are ready to reveal to the world the guardian they have created.

The Sentry is a fusion of Kryptonian and human genetic material.

This character can riff on a lot of past stories and has lots of potential for development, as he is essentially a blank slate. He could be like the version of Bizarro that starts off as a clone of Superman and then goes weird/wrong. We could kill him off and just roll out another one. He could have some Ben Reilley or Connor Kent path.

Build wise, I tried to give him all of that Kryptonian craziness.

I can almost hear the 1978 Christopher Reeves soundtrack echoing in the background... :D

And I'll try to have my submission for this character done sometime tomorrow. But for coherence, here's the idea for him, that I posted above under another alias:

I'll play as Richard Jones, a teenager living in Central City who had snuck into a scientific research center on a dare...when cyber-terrorists from A.I.M. showed up and attacked the lab of Dr. David Bruce Banner, world reknowned expert in gamma radiation.

In the ensuing battle with ( insert SuperHero name tbd that will be helpful to the DM's storyline ), a massive gamma explosion was set off, but was somehow instantaneously absorbed, miraculously bonding Rick and Dr. Banner into the gamma-energy fuelled Powerstorm! (Kind of a Hulk/Firestorm mash-up)

...or something like that.

Thinking that he'd be an energy controller with the elementalist power suite.

Wow, I *absolutely* love the hybrid write up timeline!! Really well thought out, and superbly written!

As absolute die hard comics fan, of both Marvel and DC(though more Marvel, **especially** the X-Men), I gotta at least give some thought to some sort of submission.

** spoiler omitted **...

Looking good, GMST!

Hey, you know that I know that you know that I'm not as good at this system as you are (well, as most people are, but who's counting? =) so I just have a few honest questions that I'm sure are obvious to a person so august as thyself:

1) It looks like you have Flight twice? Once at rank 1?

2) What is the purpose of having Flight 12 and Speed 20? Wouldn't taking the 20 points from Speed and putting them into Flight get you to Flight 20 with 2 points left over?

3) What is untapped potential? That a different sourcebook, yeah?

Oh man this has a very guy-with-the-Big-S feel!

Thank you!

Is the Bat Family around or is it just Bruce?

Dotting for interest. Got a few concepts in mind...but I'm leaning heavily toward one Piotr Genri Raspiron aka Kolosstal - a Colossus/Steel hybrid.

Need to review crunch and tie fluff into the timeline.

How free are we to create our own hybrid backstories? I have what I think is a pretty neat concept in mind, but it takes some decent liberties with combining characters, beyond what you've already written up.

"Roxxon Oil, How Technology Moves"- Roxxon Oil Ad Slogan

"My esteemed opponent is a lot like Roxxon Oil, or a 1953 Cadillac in pristine condition. He's reliable. He can get the job done, and even look good doing it. But he can't keep up with traffic today. Ok, I'll just say it, he's old." -Tony Stark's first Presidential debate answer.

My power was out most of yesterday, so I've a bit of catching up to do. I'll try to get through as many of the questions as I can and try to do them in order of posting. If I miss your question, please re-post it as I intend to answer everything.

"In other news, Gotham is facing a new crisis. Over the last few days, a series of violent crimes have swept the lower west side. Committed by members of a new gang, styling themselves the PUN-ishers, these lunatics paint their faces as smiling skulls and commit random acts of violence against citizens for minor acts breaking laws against jaywalking, littering, or even, in one case, murdering a whole crowd of people at the local YMCA swimming pool for 'indecent exposure'. You know, Gotham never had these kinds of trouble before The Batman started his glory-hogging spectacle of a 'crime fighting' career. That's right, Batman is to blame for all your worries, Gothamites." J. Jonah Jameson on Morning Jonah

Hey Reckless, can my character start with a friendly-ish relationship with Tony Stark?

It is, but please do keep in mind this version is a mutant-hating/fearing guy and the relationship may not play well with other submissions, making it more difficult to be selected without a really good way to fit in the balance of getting along with both parties (this could easily be worked into a Complication.)

Sinister-"You are going to experience a small amount of discomfort, Mr. McCoy."
Henry McCoy, aka Man-Beast "That's Doctor McCoyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

I’m not sure what the timeline is for submissions, but I might miss it.

Am I understanding the background correctly that there wasn’t really a Superman, Clark died before being established?

Lots of interest, so I'm planning on giving until the end of Sunday March 12th for people to have their submissions in. I will plan to announce acceptances on Monday the 13th.

Closer to Smallville, like you surmised. He had some teenage activities, but fighting the Phoenix was the first and last appearance of the "S"; the first time he wore his costume and the world never got to know him as Superman, except perhaps posthumously.

Benjamin "Ben" Grimm aka Clayface "Go back to Crime Alley, ya yahoo!"

1) It looks like you have Flight twice? Once at rank 1?

2) What is the purpose of having Flight 12 and Speed 20? Wouldn't taking the 20 points from Speed and putting them into Flight get you to Flight 20 with 2 points left over?

3) What is untapped potential? That a different sourcebook, yeah?

Oh man this has a very guy-with-the-Big-S feel!

Thank you!

1) So, the bigger Flight is an "Alternate" variable power, meaning there are several other "switches" that have to be turned off or "dials" that have to be dimmed for each rank in Flight he takes. The 1 Rank separate means he can hover, float, or fly separately even if one of the other dials is turned up to maximum. Each rank he dials into flight from the variable power adds to that 1 for a total of 2-13 total.

2) I'm guessing because Superman can beat the flash in a foot race, or at least tie? The idea here is he can run faster than he can fly. Point wise it may make more sense to just fly that fast, but Superman just has to have all the stuff.

3) Untapped potential is an Advantage where you're young enough to not have realized your full potential, so when you push your powers you get a little extra oomph. It is from the Hero High sourcebook.

"There are wars you can win, and wars you cannot win. Recognizing the former is just as important as recognizing the later. This is a war we can win, so let's Get This Done!" Erik Leshner, leading the Secret Brotherhood against the People’s Army of Vietnam.

Is the Bat Family around or is it just Bruce?

Currently, the "Bat Family" Consists of The Batman, Daredevil, and Hawkeye, with the potential addition of Philo's Raven/Nightwing (Kurt Wagner). This Bruce still has a penchant for taking in strays.

"These humans' DNA seems very pliable. They will make excellent test subjects for Project Rebirth." Grodd aka The High Evolutionary, in his laboratory hidden in the Savage Land.

How free are we to create our own hybrid backstories? I have what I think is a pretty neat concept in mind, but it takes some decent liberties with combining characters, beyond what you've already written up.

Inspire me :)

Oh my goodness this character will not get out of my head. Every little thing has him yacking away. Like this thing? We've got a solution to that.

It is, but please do keep in mind this version is a mutant-hating/fearing guy and the relationship may not play well with other submissions, making it more difficult to be selected without a really good way to fit in the balance of getting along with both parties (this could easily be worked into a Complication.)

At Reckless

For Oddball coming from a rogues gallery of the Batfamily, thinking similar to Spoiler Stephanie Brown is the daughter of the Cluemaster. Mixed with the spunky flare of Spider-Girl

I am not familiar with M&M 3rd edition but played 1st. So making a character is a bit taxing. Still I think my preliminary backstory will be interesting along side going into more detail as I figured the Circus of Crime would tie in with Bat Man's lore as well as Oliver Queen.

Most of the facilities of Project Cadmus were destroyed in the battle that destroyed Metropolis, but key scientists survived deep in the sub-levels. After the battle, Stark (and Luthor?) saw to the recovery of the remains of the Alien and the mutant known as Phoenix. And tracing the Alien to his origins turned up a bio-pod that gave them access to technology that took years to reverse engineer. But now they are ready to reveal to the world the guardian they have created.

This shared backstory is ABSOLUTELY approved!

The formatting isn't great, but Reckless got it right. I kept a rank of flight outside the dynamic array so if I do something dumb and put all of the power into heat vision or something I won't crash to the ground. And stuff in the array stacks with stuff not in the array. So if I put all of the array into flight it is flight 15.

Also, I didn't even use all of the points I had available for that ground movement. Probably will add an affects others so he can move people.

As for backstory, I had assumed Stark was pulling us together to fight something, but I'm good with being created by Stark and rebelling against him when I meet other heroes with better info.

"I always say, when you know better, do better."