DNPC twists

[BoloOfEarth]

A friend's PC eventually acquired a reformed supervillainess as his DNPC wife (the GM let us alter disads during the campaign). While this may not seem odd, the backstory was fun.

 

During one of my first Champions adventures, we stopped a group called HAND. One of their members was a nigh-impenetrable sort who had never been stunned before, and had practically never taken damage from anybody. During the battle, our brick martial artist, Midnight, did a haymaker martial kick while pushing his STR. The villain actually took enough damage to be stunned.

 

Fast forward many adventures, when we captured a supervillainess named Athena. Midnight manages to convince her to put aside her criminal ways, and she changes her name to Minerva so she can act as a heroine. They eventually fall in love and he proposes.

 

And then he met her dad to ask permission to marry her. Yep, Dad was the guy Midnight stunned. Midnight is the only person who ever hurt him. After a very nervous wait (waiting for Dad to attack), Dad gave his blessing, saying that Midnight was the only person he felt was tough enough to protect his little girl.

 

Of course, the wedding ceremony was a real blast. Did I mention that Mom was a demon, and took umbrage that she wasn't invited to the wedding? She teleported the entire chapel to the gates of Hell. Nothing like being Watched and Hunted by your in-laws...

[ZootSoot]

Originally posted by Trebuchet

Not to seem overly critical, but isn't a superpowered homewrecker just a little bit unheroic? Not a lot of "uphold the right" there. Doesn't your character ever have doubts about the morality of that relationship?

 

Hmmm, perhaps a thread about superhero ethics might be interesting...

 

Absolutely she is troubled by her relationship, but she is in love (hopelessly, Luis is never going to leave his wife). It's a quandary that provides a lot of material for role-playing.

[Arkham]

This is for a PC in my campaign.

 

The PC is Über, an unwitting participant in a german

bioengineering project to create the Übermensch.

 

He looks like Dolph Lundgren, except bigger, brilliant,

tougher, etc. And his DNPC is a kitten named Flaumig.

( german for Fluffy )

 

It's only been 2 sessions so far, and the cat has already

been more of a disadvantage than most other DNPCs so far.

[SuperBlue]

My Character, Super Blue, has DNPC's for his whole family. It gets pretty messed up.

 

His dad is a preacher that hates Super-Powered Beings. He constantly preaches to his congregations about how they are abominations, and need to be done away with altogether. He also sees normals (such as Powered Armor types, and Martial Artists) as vigilantes and/or criminals. His father would disown him if he found out that he was a super-hero.

 

His mother is with his father, but only out of love for him (she's pretends to hate super-powered beings, but she really doesn't).

 

His sister doesn't care about supers, as she thinks they're cool. She is constantly scowled at by her father, and she is often grounded for expressing her interest in the affairs of super-powered beings.

 

My Character, is (secretly) a mutant with such dangerous power (he's made of "Blue Energy") that an Alien that watches over the Earth and keeps records of everthing that happens (his name is Scribe) had to take him aside and teach him to control it (otherwise he would blow himself up and everything withing several miles). He too dissagrees with his father, but no-where near as much as his sister. His biggest concern is his best friend, Noa Vahn, the daughter of one of the richest families in Philidelphia, who is constantly trying to link Super Blue to Eris Benson (This is more of a hunted than anything, but could be combined with a DNPC cuz he keeps a close eye on her to make sure she doesn't find out that he really is Super Blue.)

 

Whoa... didn't mean to make that one so long...