JmOz Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 I am working on a new Generic Hero for my web site. This guy is a stretching/shape changing hero (Mr Fantastic, Plastic Man, Elongated Man, etc...). What would you say is the most common job for these type of heroes...leaning towards a private eye... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 I don't know that there is a most common job. My instinct is that he makes balloon animals. I've also wanted to have a hero with PS: Billionaire No money perk. He's just really skilled at being a billionaire. Duke Bushido, Scott Ruggels and Black Rose 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja-Bear Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 I’ve always made my stretchers chemists. How else are they going to gain their powers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted December 1, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 10 minutes ago, archer said: I don't know that there is a most common job. My instinct is that he makes balloon animals. I've also wanted to have a hero with PS: Billionaire No money perk. He's just really skilled at being a billionaire. Big fan of the Blue and Gold (Blue Beetle and Booster Gold during the JLI days)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 3 hours ago, JmOz said: Big fan of the Blue and Gold (Blue Beetle and Booster Gold during the JLI days)? Very much so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steriaca Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 3 hours ago, Ninja-Bear said: I’ve always made my stretchers chemists. How else are they going to gain their powers? About the same way as anyone else in comic books. A wizard's spell backfires and turns a bystander into Strech Guy. He gets dunked in a vat of radioactive liquid rubber. Aliens abduct him, take him apart on a molecule level, then put him back together in a way which is not compatible with what he was before, but they did save his life after all. Infused with Chaos Magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steriaca Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 Remember in a fantasy game: A Wizard Did It! Remember in a superhero game: Radiation Did It! Black Rose 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted December 2, 2020 Report Share Posted December 2, 2020 4 hours ago, Ninja-Bear said: I’ve always made my stretchers chemists. How else are they going to gain their powers? 47 minutes ago, steriaca said: About the same way as anyone else in comic books. A wizard's spell backfires and turns a bystander into Strech Guy. He gets dunked in a vat of radioactive liquid rubber. Aliens abduct him, take him apart on a molecule level, then put him back together in a way which is not compatible with what he was before, but they did save his life after all. Infused with Chaos Magic. I went super-old school with my first stretchy guy. (Remember I don't have much of a comics background, but I used to love the old action pulps and their various Bantam and Baen reprints and novelizations). The first one I did was the honest to goodness Indian (India-Indian; not Asian Immigrant / Native American) Rubber Man. But yeah-- they can get their powers the same way anyone else does. I think-- hang on. Yep. Google shows a lot of chemical vats (and one soda?!) in the origins of the stretchy guys of comics. But I see that Fantastic Four . Crap-- another google. Mr. Fantastic-- anyway, it says he was radiation, so why not? Or a curse, or an amulet, or that "nontoxic" label on Silly Putty wasn't _quite_ accurate.... Run with whatever, Dude. 40 minutes ago, steriaca said: Remember in a fantasy game: A Wizard Did It! Remember in a superhero game: Radiation Did It! I'm out of rep, but I wanted to let you know that cost me a healthy mouthful of coffee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted December 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2020 The key element here is not how s/he got the powers but rather what occupation is the most common. the first 4 stretching heroes that come to my mind are: A scientist/public Hero A former criminal/turned Fed agent A detective/public hero Newspaper photographer/cub reporter/another hero's "Pal" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted December 2, 2020 Report Share Posted December 2, 2020 I think you just answered your own question: there is no "most common occupation." If the hero is supposed to be "generic," unless the occupation has a direct impact on the character's use in-game, it probably doesn't need to be defined. Ninja-Bear 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted December 4, 2020 Report Share Posted December 4, 2020 It's whatever you want. As LL replied, there is no "most common occupation". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted December 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2020 Looking over the rest I noticed one skill set not represented so will go with that (politician/Royal/etc...) Hermit and Duke Bushido 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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