How do I make an alternative Identity for my PC

[GOmezy3k]

I am making a character and want to make an alternative Identity but cannot find where "Alt ID" is listed.  What do I use to make up his non-Super Heroic id?? 

[Lucius]

 

The simplest answer is to write, somewhere on the character sheet probably at the top after the name "Secret ID: Clark Parker" (or "Peter Wayne" or "Bruce Kent" or whatever.) If you have a written background you can put as much detail as you like into your normal life, life before becoming a superhero, etc.

 

If you want something more elaborate than that, it depends on what you want exactly.

 

For example, many superheroes take a Complication that represents the fact they have a secret to keep. If you envision the character occasionally having to make excuses and sneak off to change into costume, this is the way to go.

 

Another alternative is to create a List of Skills with a title like "Secret ID" and include things like Acting or Disguise that help you maintain that identity and whatever Skills you associate with that "normal life" - if your secret ID is a medical doctor for example, you might have Science Skill: Medicine, Professional Skill: Physician and Paramedics (First Aid.) You could use such skills while in costume but might be reluctant to for fear of someone figuring out "Hey, that superhero must have had medical training, there's a clue to his real identity..."

 

Now, if you are thinking of the situation in which the superhero and the normal identity are something like Iron Man vs Tony Stark or Bruce Banner vs the Hulk or Captain Marvell and whoever he was when not being Capt. Marvell, that gets more complex and there are a couple of ways to do it.

 

You might want to look at the Powers Shapeshifting and Multiform, and the Limitation of Only in Alternative ID.

 

If you explain exactly what you mean by "alternative identity" and what benefits or drawbacks it would provide the character and how you see it playing out in the game, we can help you better.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

The palindromedary consumes radioactive peppers to become The Green Lama (don't tell anyone, it's a secret)

[Christopher]

There are nourmerous ways to make an Alternate Identitify:

Only in Alternate Identitify the Limitation

Multiform

Secret Identity the Complication, a subcase of a Social Complication if memory serves

 

For most cases the Complication is enough.

 

The other two are more for cases like Captain Marvel/Shazaam, the Hulk and some variants of Thor. Where the secret ID has significantly less actually powers then the Heroic one.

Many a debate was had if OIAID or Multiform are better to represent "Hero example X".

[Greywind]

Deep Cover

[Doc Democracy]

What noone has said explicitly as far as I can see is that you can have an alternate ID simply by writing it into your backstory.

 

You can use the fact of the alternate ID to justify a complication - but by doing so you are telling the GM that he (or she) should use that aspect of your backstory to complicate your life.  Always remember that - you are in control of the details of your character as long as they are consistent with the GM's campaign right up until you give the GM rights by offering up those details as complications in return for a few character points.  You control how much control the GM has on those aspects by how many points you seek for them.

 

:-)

 

Doc