Ongoing Project - A Combined Marvel/DC Universe Lets Brainstorm!

[humantorch101]

Ok guys,
Lets start a fun ongoing project, here's the concept a combined DC/Marvel/Plus any other Genre influences universe with the serial numbers filed off!.

Lets come up with a workable combined universe with all our favourite characters, teams, places and concepts intact but with each thing given just so slight a twist, but with them easily recognised as the homage to the character they are.

Lets try and build a logical combined universe with as many links between the two as possible in the characters histories and back stories.

where the two universe's merge strip out any unneeded elements and amke it logical but most of all playable as a superhero universe and fun!.

I will post questions about characters and concepts and its up to the board members to come up with cool concepts for the combined uni then we will move on once we have picked our favourites and written up the character.

[humantorch101]

Ok lets start of big, the Superman homage of this universe.

The concepts you come up with should include the following.

1. One of the most powerful if not THE most powerful hero of this universe, whatever stat level we set him at hes the benchmark for everyone else.

2. His basic powerset should be the same, Strength, Toughness, A blast, Flight, Some super senses.

3. The rest of his power set is much more optional such as super speed.

4. He should be an alien or outsider on Earth.

5. He should have his own rogues gallery (dont get specific with them though as they will be fleshed out).

6. He should lead the greatest super hero team. Maybe not on earth but maybe more cosmic in scale?

7. He should have some VERY definate weakness or more than one.

8. A good cast of supporting characters that you can flesh out eg Lois, Ma and Pa, Jimmy etc.

rgds
torch

[Dynamo]

Because I will absolutely steal any ideas I like from this thread for my Cannibal Comics campaign setting, it's only fair to link to it (http://folks.harbornet.com/ebontower/gaming/campaign/cannibal). Feel free to plunder it's meager resources. Gotta love recursive derivation.

Cannibal Comics is more of a setting for legacy characters, with the major characters of DC and Marvel set in the past. Characters fielded by players have so far included Captain America's daughters, Superman's great grandson, Spiderman's clone's clone (don't ask), and Batman's latest protege (Raven in the timeline).

I have every intention of giving the CC webpage some love in the next few months. I'm a little bored with my MMOs and I want to do some work on a Derivative Campaigns seminar for DDC next year.

[Shaft]

Here's a timeline in which I did just that. Mind you, that was with the intention of having the known characters be part of the superhuman history of the setting. At any rate, it might provide some ideas.

http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1219989#post1219989