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Mutants and Masterminds 3rd Edition Omniversal Heroes Forever
You’ve seen threats to city, country, world, galaxy, maybe even universe or multiverse. But no one has ever faced a threat like this…
The Omniverse contains everything. Metaverses, Multiverses, Hypertime. The absolute totality of existence. And something is destroying it one timeline, one universe, at a time.
This campaign is a Mutants and Masterminds 3rd edition play by post here on the boards.
Player Characters should be built at PL 10, but with 175 points.
Skills are 4 skill points per power point.
Time travel and dimensional travel powers should not be the focus of your character. If you want to play a character from Asgard who can travel back and forth, or a wizard who can travel to the Dark Dimension, that is fine. But characters should need the campaign’s plot macguffin to move through timelines and not be able to just go whenever they want.
This pitch sounds like you should be the most amazing characters ever, best of the best, but that isn’t actually what I’m going for. In the spirit of the 90s Avengers Forever limited series, you should be a group of characters who are called together because you have the best chance to save the omniverse. (Of course, I don’t know what that reason is because I don’t know what characters we will have yet.) The Avengers Forever team was hardly the most powerful Avengers at the top of their game. Characters don't even have to be heroes, necessarily. Villains who don't need to be jerks could work.
I expect the game will definitely deal with some Marvel and some DC, but also this is the Omniverse, so anything could be on the table. The style will be modern mainstream comics.
As for play by post business: I tend to post pretty slowly. Unlike a lot of players, my work keeps me from posting frequently during the day (Eastern time). Also, I have some ongoing health issues that can take me out for a bit, but that situation is pretty stable right now.
I like players who drive the story forward. This concept will allow me to keep things on the rails a bit more than usual.
Inspiration: Galactus, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Marvel multiverse stuff, Avengers Forever, and just generally me being a big late middle aged nerd.
I plan to run this recruitment for 2 weeks.
I intend to take 5 players.
I’m sure I have forgotten something. Please ask questions!
Full disclosure, I already have 1 player lined up. So only taking 4 more.
Should I ask who the other lined up player is?
I would absolutely be interested :)
I have a New Mutants style character who possesses both Darkforce and Lightforce powers(ala Cloak and Dagger, who she's friends with). Would love to reprise her, as a more fully fleshed out character(I *believe* she was made with 144 PPs).
Hi GM over form your other game, which is fun.
I am thinking of an none Earth Alien/Human, with a Emma Frost/Dark Phoenix vibe, Cool Intelligent metal powered villainess, Who uses Brains over Brawn.
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I have an idea for this (the protector of a magical kingdom on another world or in another dimension. Very vaguely a more overtly martial Dr Strange type). He would have magic rituals which would allow a lot of flexibility, together with his actual spells and gear. Also from a world with very little technology per se ( although magic would replace many functions of it) so there would be a "fish out of water" vibe to play with.
Does the campaign start on Earth or does the plot train potentially start with him being picked up from his home? I can work with either but would prefer him to be picked up from his world.
How powerful should I make the character? Magic and rituals are inherently hoseable so I need guidelines
Should I ask who the other lined up player is?
I would absolutely be interested :)
Tis I! :) I'm running an alternate version of Marvel's Hercules - going by his Herakles moniker, with some possible dashes of DC thrown into the mix.
A la Avengers Forever I'm not 100% sure if we'll be from different realities/timestreams, but my Herk is likely from 1950s version of the Avengers (citing What If? Vol 1 #9)/Avengers 1959 and some other alternative timelines. Having interfered in WW2 he's been stripped of his godhood by Zeus but still plies his heroic trade as a mortal demi-god/brick as part of his Avengers.
Like ST I'm also a big late middle-aged nerd/huge Marvel Zombie so this game is ambrosia from Olympus for me :)
Oh! I love me an ST game1
There are already 4 quality players here.
Let me noodle on a potential character. See if i can compete.
Cheers
All of those ideas make sense to me.
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Hey BD!!!
I think what I probably need to think about today is which age-group of a nerd I am ;) I woulld need to look at the category bands, but I may be a middle middle-aged DC/Marvel nerd; young enough to really enjoy the current superhero renaissance, old enough to have collected Crisis issue by issue when it happened.
I will add a 5th if I am not too late to the party -- I love me some Mutants and Masterminds
So we may have a Brick in Herk
The rest I am not sure how to categorize quite yet but we have:
A maybe thinky style Emma Frost/Phoenix character
A maybe out of place Dr. Strange character
A maybe Dark Force/Light Force character
A maybe Unknown type character
So....
@ST
Have had a character concept bouncing around for awhile. Would an ancient dragon work that shapechanges into a human? While in human form, the Alternate Effect of his dragon powers would be Variable magic powers.
Or, I may steal your Superboy build if you would allow and want.
cheers
(Waves to Evindyl)
@Jubal: Ancient dragon that can shapechange into a human you say... might Mister Lao serve as a decent source of inspiration?
I guess if someone else is going to do Superboy, this would be the time for my Jason Prince build
Just so I have this right but are we expected or encouraged to make characters connected to the Marvel/DC universes? Basically, would a Spider-Man variant from Earth-Random Number be accepted as a variable character?
@ST
Have had a character concept bouncing around for awhile. Would an ancient dragon work that shapechanges into a human? While in human form, the Alternate Effect of his dragon powers would be Variable magic powers.
Or, I may steal your Superboy build if you would allow and want.
cheers
Sounds like a Moondragon variant?
That Superboy build is pretty cool. I really wanted to see how far I could push the narrative abilities to get a character that felt like it had that kind of power. Not great at fighting, but lots of fun abilities. You could do something like that. It should still be in my aliases.
Just so I have this right but are we expected or encouraged to make characters connected to the Marvel/DC universes? Basically, would a Spider-Man variant from Earth-Random Number be accepted as a variable character?
You can play Marvel/DC variants, Amalgam characters, or things farther afield.