@fatefan said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
Thank you for the recommendations so far!
I would strongly recommend you find a team of people and try to build your own game. There are a lot of resources out there. As you can see there is a small amount of games out there, so another wouldn't be entirely unwelcomed.
I've always been curious around the Superhero MU genre. I've definitely played on them but rarely can I keep my focus or attention in them. I feel like it's just absent of motivation a lot of times.
I think my overwhelming question is what makes a 'good' Superhero game? What are people actually looking for?
@Paradox said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
I think my overwhelming question is what makes a 'good' Superhero game? What are people actually looking for?
I look for consistent opportunities for role-playing with players who are able to role-play with a satisfactory level of competence.
Of course, this standard applies to all games, so it would be safe to conclude that I look for the same thing everywhere.
@Seamus said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
@fatefan said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
Thank you for the recommendations so far!
I would strongly recommend you find a team of people and try to build your own game. There are a lot of resources out there. As you can see there is a small amount of games out there, so another wouldn't be entirely unwelcomed.
I've been thinking of taking a stab at this since no one seems to be interested in my sci-fi games 
My current thought is a near-future superhero game based on the Tiny Supers RPG and set in the "Gallantverse" campaign setting. I'd use either AresMUSH or Evennia (most likely Evennia). The only thing holding me back is I am not sure how well a game not based on Marvel or DC would be received.
@Darren said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
@Seamus said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
@fatefan said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
Thank you for the recommendations so far!
I would strongly recommend you find a team of people and try to build your own game. There are a lot of resources out there. As you can see there is a small amount of games out there, so another wouldn't be entirely unwelcomed.
I've been thinking of taking a stab at this since no one seems to be interested in my sci-fi games
Once upon a time, I wanted to make a Super Hero game, which took the concept of what happened in Malibu comics, but on a global scale. One day something happened and people were given powers randomly. Now here is the game. I think you will find that any superhero game with a cohesive theme should be pretty good to go.
I know I ran a game based off X-Men: Evolution way back in the day... I think it hung around for about 2 years before I closed it down.
@Darren said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
The only thing holding me back is I am not sure how well a game not based on Marvel or DC would be received.
There's enough fans of The Umbrella Academy, The Boys, and Watchmen to probably give you a non-Marvel / non-DC player base.
@Seamus That also sounds similar to the basis of the Wild Cards setting, IIRC.
Just after RFK closed we brainstormed a few ideas of what a fun MU* could be and one of the ideas we had was a superhero academy where the Staff and people volunteering to PRP would play the teachers and the grid would represent an artificial city filled with training scenarios and every now and then they'd be attacked by actual villains.
The way I'd set up a superhero game these days would just be to use Ares since it gives you practically everything that you need out of the box.
What is obvious to you may not be obvious to me and vice versa.
@fatefan said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
@Seamus That also sounds similar to the basis of the Wild Cards setting, IIRC.
Yeah. It has a LOT in common. I had not been aware of WildCards at the time. I was basing it solely on the "Jumpstart" from Malibu comics. Which in the end had a Mystical Source, but still... I thought it would have been fun. I've also tinkered with a Code 8-esque setting, and The 4400-esque setting. I Just end up going, eh... and scrapping them.
@Groth said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
Just after RFK closed we brainstormed a few ideas of what a fun MU* could be and one of the ideas we had was a superhero academy where the Staff and people volunteering to PRP would play the teachers and the grid would represent an artificial city filled with training scenarios and every now and then they'd be attacked by actual villains.
The way I'd set up a superhero game these days would just be to use Ares since it gives you practically everything that you need out of the box.
That's some straight up Maze Runner type stuff. I'd be down.
@Seamus said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
@fatefan said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
@Seamus That also sounds similar to the basis of the Wild Cards setting, IIRC.
Yeah. It has a LOT in common. I had not been aware of WildCards at the time. I was basing it solely on the "Jumpstart" from Malibu comics.
fist bump for someone else who loves obscure 90s universes
(it has been a long term thought experiment between @GreenFlashlight and me to try to turn Mantra into a char that isn’t so weird and oogy)
@Prototart said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
(it has been a long term thought experiment between @GreenFlashlight and me to try to turn Mantra into a char that isn’t so weird and oogy)
Nice. I am a huge Spectral fan.
@Prototart said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
(it has been a long term thought experiment between @GreenFlashlight and me to try to turn Mantra into a char that isn’t so weird and oogy)
I hadn't been as aware of the Malibuverse's inciting power event, so if I had it all to do over, every hero in the Malibuverse would be infused with, uh, whatever the goo was that gave Prime his powers: everyone who has powers has that goo inside them, giving them an alternate form in addition to the powers.
That way Mantra can be an actual middle-aged woman who has to think about how she feels that when she's a superhero, she abandons her body to assume the form of a twenty-something porn star with a barely-there costume that apparently amplifies her magic. I really want to see a story some day about a woman who's had to struggle all her life with the realities of falling short of beauty standards and having to make peace with being a human being in a world that wants her to be a sex fantasy suddenly gaining super powers that incidentally turn her into the sex fantasy she doesn't want to be but also kinda wants to be. Her powers make her a male power fantasy and she feels guilty about liking it as much as she does.
(Yes, this is autobiographical as I deal with similar issues of knowing I shouldn't wish I look like a magazine cover but still wishing I looked like a magazine cover.)
Okay. Since we're all sort of entering into a 'We'll Make our Own Place, Without Blackjack & Hookers' phase, I'm creating a Discord server for those that want to start building a Supers game (and it will be Perfect! PERFECT I TELL YOU!!!!!), to gather and discuss ideas, option, and try to build something sustainable and lasting.
Reading the ESH wiki. Why is Mr. Sinister a banned character, beyond the fact that Nate Essex is a creepy fuck?
@popes said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
Reading the ESH wiki. Why is Mr. Sinister a banned character, beyond the fact that Nate Essex is a creepy fuck?
I do not know, but given that they ban "sex kittens" and animal characters because someone might be tempted to TS with them, I am guessing they ban Mr. Sinister to prevent people from running plots about mutant breeding programs that get described in prurient detail.
@GreenFlashlight
I kinda feel like if you're running a game built around a nearly hundred year history of sexy people in skin tight spandex, you've already lost the war of characters being fetishized, and should just be very strict about your 'no TS/sex-weirdness/take-it-to-Shang' rules.
@SquirrelTalk Teeeeeeeechnically if you're running Marvel/DC theres no frontal nudity, female nipples, all of it is obscured in shadow, and actual sex happens once every 45 issues or so.
Unless you're the Punisher.
A supers game following actual comics style kinda sounds fun.
I don't think there's a 'no-TS' policy on the game, but the creators may chime in.
@fatefan said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
Thank you for the recommendations so far!
I would strongly recommend you find a team of people and try to build your own game. There are a lot of resources out there. As you can see there is a small amount of games out there, so another wouldn't be entirely unwelcomed.
