First time HERO GM

For no reason in particular I decided to detail this player and the character creation involved.

My brother, for reasons I haven't psycho-analyzed, has a tendency to make a martial arts type character whenever super hero games are rumored to exist. As I noted last entry, I don't always agree with my brother on what is cool. That is to be expected. When some mentions a super hero RPG I think of things like Spider-man, Superman, the Flash, Iron Man, and Captain America. Aparently ...

I knew I had one slam dunk player and character, whichever one my wife decided she wanted to play. She had shown a penchant in the past for powered armor characters and I expected she would carry over her GenCon character nugget from the intro to Hero game.

I also had a hunch that my brother would jump in with very little encouragement. He usually does when I mention running an RPG. I was right.

Finding any more players was a challenge. I believe most of this ...

After a pretty long hiatus, I was ready to get back into role-playing. It wasn't necessarily by chioce. I happen to be the kind of person who is looked on to organize everything. I'm sure there are more of us out there. I buy the books for the games we play, I study the rules and then teach everyone else how to play. I make all the calls setting up times and places. I always get stuck being the GM.

Now this isn't a horrible thing, mostly its a 'martyr point' brought up when ...