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Epiphanis

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  1. Also from The Retributors: Rainbow.
  2. From my new online campaign, The Retributors, here is one of the PCs: Blip.
  3. Lex Luthor's "Everyman" business is the closest match I can think of. The Evil Factory and, post-New 52, N.O.W.H.E.R.E., both have the capacity to do this but mostly operate with agendas other than providing origin stories for pay. I don't think either is above a little profiteering to fund their larger goals, however. Bannerman Pharmaceuticals was the developer of both Hourman's Miraclo formula and its variant, Bane's "Venom" drug. I don't think there is a general "we will ensuper you for pay" story involving them yet, but presumably it's got a profit motive for its activities. By the same token, though, I suppose the bottlers of Gingold Juice, Elongated Man's soft drink, would count.
  4. Nice one. I did something vaguely similar once, in which around the turn of the millennium teenagers began manifesting superpowers. Researchers discovered that every one of the new supers had been conceived after the Harmonic Convergence of August 1987. Why remained uncertain -- various occult, scientific and pseudo - scientific theories were abound -- but nobody knew for sure. The supers became known as "vergers".
  5. THE PRESERVER Originally named "Utnapishtim," the Preserver was a man born into a wealthy merchant family in Mesopotomia around 2900 BC. During his lifetime the king of the gods, Enlil, decided to destroy humanity, which had proven too populous, unruly, and noisy and disturbed him. Enlil decided to destroy humanity with a series of plagues. Another god, Enki, opposed this decision and secretly approached the mortal Utnapishtim and gave him instructions on how to counter each plague. Finally catching on, Enlil prepared a final, secret, plague, a flood that would drown all humanity. Enlil forced Enki to swear not to tell the secret to anyone, but Enki worked around this by speaking the warning aloud in an empty room on the other side of a thin reed wall from Utnapishtim, hypothesizing that humanity could be saved if someone were to build a huge ark filled with people and animals to be saved from the waters. Utnapishtim used up all his worldly possessions to build such a vessel, which he named the Preserver of Life. This saved the vestiges of humanity. Utnapishtim's actions, and Enki's persuasion, managed to impress Enlil enough to relent in the destruction of humanity, and he instead devised a less extreme set of measures to prevent human overpopulation. The gods granted Utnapishtim himself immortality for his acts. He later became known as Ziusudra to the Sumerians, Atrahasis to the Akkadians, and Noah to the Hebrews; versions of his story appear in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest epic poem in the world, and the Judeo-Christian Bible. Most versions of the story indicate he was the first (and in some instances, also the last) mortal being ever to achieve immortality. What few know is that the immortal Utnapishtim is still active to this day, and still devoted to the role Enki gave him: he is the Preserver, and he is completely dedicated to the survival of humanity. He is no longer directed by Enki, but the Preserver carefully observes long-term threats to the survival of humanity and makes long-term plans to counteract. His only super-power is his apparent complete inability to die (Life Support unaging and resurrection-inclusive Regeneration). Yet the Preserver is not necessarily a hero; he is often ruthless in his actions. Further, he cares little about "garden variety" disasters, he is only concerned by extinction-level threats. The Preserver will not try to avert mass genocide -- he may actually welcome an occasional 'culling' for the perceived long-term good of the species -- as long as he can save some to repopulate.
  6. This is for a future pickup game, I don't know who will be playing. I would like the team to be thematically unified, whatever it is.
  7. I'm really just interested in the coolness factor, I can work out logistical/mechanical issues well enough. I suspect the prevalence of Champions grognards here skews the results toward option 7. One thing I considered was a "Squadron Sovereign", a version of Marvel's Squadron Supreme/Squadron Sinister, which are themselves pastiches of DC's Justice League. That way I could infringe on the IP rights of both Big Two companies simultaneously!
  8. Part of the advice given in Champions Complete is that players hate to have their PCs captured, which is something GMs should try to avoid doing. As a player, I don't feel that way, and as a GM might go-to "first adventure" trope is, rather than meeting in a bar, I have my PCs meet as co-prisoners and bond while escaping. As a player, do you find having your characters captured kills your fun?
  9. Thanks. Two of the ideas are just riffs on Darren Watts' -- the Reality Storm one and the butterfly effect one, which is similar to an Adventures Into Darkness crossover adventure he used in his Silver Age playtest.
  10. Some ideas from a Champions Universe perspective: 1) Substitute them for the Silver Age Sentinels in the published Reality Storm adventure. 2) Have the version of the M&M universe they originated in be conquered by Istvatha V'han, and the Freedom League re-educated into her service. They then spearhead an invasion for her, with the potential for native CU heroes to break their conditioning. 3) Professor Paradigm creates a Causality Modulator that causes part of the CU to collide with the M&M U, with Freedom League dumped into the CU. 4) The CU PC hero team get thrown back in time, and due to the Butterfly Effect inadvertently change history so instead the CU never develops as it was supposed to but rather became the M&M U. They clash with the Freedom League while trying to revert the timeline. They ultimately succeed, but the Freedom League gets dragged into the restored timeline. 5) M&M is a tabletop roleplaying game that exists in the Champions Universe. A powerful magic ritual conducted by the Devil's Advocates to alter reality to become more magical incidentally causes a number of fictional and imaginary characters to come to life, including the Freedom League.
  11. In case you think I'm ripping off your idea, I posted stuff about ULTRA Defenders over a month ago in the Superhero Images thread.
  12. I'm using the same acronym for my own prospective campaign. Ultimate Level Threat Response Administration With its superteam: the U.L.T.R.A. Defenders.
  13. I've added some more. You can go to my Facebook album for better resolution pictures.
  14. I'll do some more later. I was just away on a vacation road trip.
  15. Marvel has some interesting quirks involving it's version of NYC. When Daredevil was created his home neighborhood, "He'll ' s Kitchen," was a slum worthy of its name. But it gentrified twenty years ago and is now called "Clinton," containing most of the theater district and lived in by trendy affluents. Ben Grimm ' s home "Yancy Street" doesn't exist, but the still highly Jewish "Delancey Street" does. Doc Strange would have been priced out of his Greenwich Village home years ago unless he has money magic, which he may well have.
  16. Boruto ("Volt") is indeed spelled "Boruto" in the VIPER book and an online Japanese dictionary. "Haiyakaze" ("Swiftwind") should have been spelled "Hayaikaze" though. Speaking of which, the one truly cheesecake illustration in the set immediately got voted to the top.
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