Clonus Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 The X-Wives Club: Sentinel was Earth's most powerful hero since the year 1939, when he began his career. He fell in love with that spunky girl-reporter but there was a problem. Earth women were so...breakable. It was a problem his alien technology could fix. They got married and lived happily for a good six years. Then came a bad three years, and a divorce. After her there was the heiress, the athlete, the cop, the mermaid, the model, even the burglar. Each of them married him for years or months, and each of them eventually was left by him. Although they didn't have his dizzying array of powers and cosmic powerlevels, they had enough durability and muscle that they wouldn't be injured by a careless motion in the throes of passion. That they also gained some incidental powers expressing their interests was a nice side-effect. That they gathered together in a kind of club with the only women they could talk to freely about their past and present was only natural. And when he dropped out of sight...well someone had to fill the gap... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign What do you mean that's unworkable?! That's AWESOME!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted November 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign Awesome But Impractical How do you get an entire play group all of whom are willing and able to play women with a common origin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexus Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign IME at least, With PBEM/PBP it's wouldn't be that difficult. You'd probably have more trouble with the common origin than the all female part but it's not an impossible sell by any stretch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comic Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign You set the campaign on Wisteria Lane, with a classy bistro and some upscale boutiques? And maybe invite them to be played by Carrie Bradshaw fans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmakaze Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign Awesome But Impractical How do you get an entire play group all of whom are willing and able to play women with a common origin? I've done it. Granted it was a D&D module entitled "Attack of the Beautiful Princesses" that I ran at conventions, but all of the PCs are female and I ran it successfully over and over for quite a long while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign Awesome But Impractical How do you get an entire play group all of whom are willing and able to play women with a common origin? Put it on Hero Central and I'll sign up! Dibs on the cop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign I'll take the mermaid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign I'll take the burglar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign Sentinel may have experimented playing for the other team back in college Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign Sentinel may have experimented playing for the other team back in college Or that one time at camp - - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign Or that one time at camp - - Pete Ross. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign Pete Ross. What happens on the camping trip -- STAYS on the camping trip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign What happens on the camping trip -- STAYS on the camping trip! Now THERE'S an Elseworld waiting to happen...or maybe a Vertigo one-shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign The X-Wives Club: Sentinel was Earth's most powerful hero since the year 1939' date=' when he began his career. He fell in love with that spunky girl-reporter but there was a problem. Earth women were so...breakable. It was a problem his alien technology could fix. They got married and lived happily for a good six years. Then came a bad three years, and a divorce. After her there was the heiress, the athlete, the cop, the mermaid, the model, even the burglar. Each of them married him for years or months, and each of them eventually was left by him. Although they didn't have his dizzying array of powers and cosmic powerlevels, they had enough durability and muscle that they wouldn't be injured by a careless motion in the throes of passion. That they also gained some incidental powers expressing their interests was a nice side-effect. That they gathered together in a kind of club with the only women they could talk to freely about their past and present was only natural. And when he dropped out of sight...well someone had to fill the gap...[/quote'] Actually, I have two female players who would LOVE this. I need to rep you and rip it off.. err.. be inspired. EDIT: Alas, I must spread some rep around yadda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign Macho Women with Guns Hero? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Querysphinx Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign Actually, I have two female players who would LOVE this. I need to rep you and rip it off.. err.. be inspired. EDIT: Alas, I must spread some rep around yadda Got 'im for ya. Great idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakboy6117 Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign interestingly it sounds a lot like the premise for an Image comic calledDynamo 5. in that series the heroes are the illigitimate offspring of a superman analouge assembled by his widow following his death to continue defending the city he protected. intreastingly each of the five children has one of his many superpowers. the story revolves around the disparate characters being forced together all at once and the sudden discovery that they have multiple half siblings and that the person you believed to be your father isn't. a premise like that might make for a more playable game as you can mix up the genders etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haven Walkur Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign What do you mean that's unworkable?! That's AWESOME!!! AGREED! I'd take the spunky (but now aging) "girl" reporter. Others who commented: McCoy; the cop Assault; the mermaid Beast; the burglar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign maybe one of the after effects of being with Sentinel is that some LS vs aging might be common amongst them my design is going to be that one night during their courtship she broke into his house and crawled into bed with him(he did not wake up and she just cuddled with him) after Sentinel had been in a fight where he got hit with various chemicals and radiation and had not gone through a proper decontamination(he just showered and went to bed,she climbs into bed with him and is contaminated and mutates gaining super powers(character would look something like the Black Cat from Spider-man they never marry but are together for a few yrs before he catches on and tosses her in jail she is now out and realizes that she was wrong and has reformed How many points where you thinking of having the characters be along with active pts and DC caps AGREED! I'd take the spunky (but now aging) "girl" reporter. Others who commented: McCoy; the cop Assault; the mermaid Beast; the burglar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Querysphinx Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign I can't decide between the heiress and the athlete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comic Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign So.. Did I miss where Clonus agreed to GM for you all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Querysphinx Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign So.. Did I miss where Clonus agreed to GM for you all? Nope. At the moment, it's a thought experiment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign I'm egging him on for a game hopefully on Hero central the basis was he liked the premsis but did not think anybody would go for it I'm one of a few that has said we'ed love to play in that kind of game So.. Did I miss where Clonus agreed to GM for you all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinanju Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Unworkable Premises for a Campaign maybe one of the after effects of being with Sentinel is that some LS vs aging might be common amongst them I've mentioned this at least once before in another thread somewhere, but the website http://velorian.org/auow/index.htm contains some very strange superhero fanfic (with photoshopped images, no less) based on the DC Universe. Mostly the Superman & Batman characters. In this very strange alternate universe, simply being around a Kryptonian for any length of time causes some tiny fraction of their power (and longevity) to rub off on people. And we're talking Kryptonians who can juggle asteroids and endure nuclear explosions and whatnot. So Lois, who's been married to Clark for many years, is "only" mostly bulletproof and "merely" about as strong as your average vampire.... Ditto for other characters, including Wonder Woman (as if she weren't powerful enough already). So this concept, that the X-Wives have all acquired some limited degree of superpowers isn't entirely unprecedented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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