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Re: Running for a Villain Team Yep. "Heroes" run amok is easily the best way to run a "villain" team. Just like real life. You could wrap a whole supers game world around that.

Are there rules for changing a character's powers over a non-combat time frame, say months, without a VPP? Say, if you want an inventor-type whose powers change over months, or goes without changing for a long time if he's happy with the balance? Or just the kinds of evolutions you see in comic characters over time that seem to exceed the minor tinkering suggested in the experience point rules? What if you get tired of your powers but want to keep your character and give him a makeover? Rick Jones?

Is there a big database somewhere (hope hope)? Edit: dunno WHY this thread didn't show up when I searched for Marvel in the title: http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php/22905-Marvel-DC-Hero-Writeups Anything beyond those links?

Re: Anyone else hate Wolverine? For me the essence of the character was the noble savage Maybe that's the problem; I find the idea of the noble savage offensive, like much of its author's ideas. His greatest power was his absolute willpower, not his claws. Easy to have absolute willpower with an uber healing factor. I was AWOL for the bone claws thing. I remember a comic-reading friend telling me about it and I was like, "WTF"? Dunno much about Lobo, outside of the fact that I thought his duel with Evil Santa was pretty awesome. 'Cept Evil Santa would totally win. Edit: what's this "Mary Sue" thing?

Re: Anyone else hate Wolverine? Maybe I'm being too hard on the guy. I mean, ride any horse long enough and it dies. I can forgive Spidey's silliness (how can a guy with danger sense and the ability to lift 10 tons ever have money problems, much less recurring money problems?) because he's me with super-powers. But I just can't stand the sight of him any more. Would it kill the guy to have a second thought? A conflict? A regret? A moment of weakness? To fumble for an answer?

Re: Running for a Villain Team Fun to think about some of the ramifications of superpowers and butt them up against comic conventions. Let's face it, if America actually produced a bumper crop of super-heroes, they'd be stinking rich from gigs as PMCs in Iraq/Afghanistan, strip-mining, etc. They'd be a lot more like those guys from that supergroup Herricane and Captain Adventure from Penthouse Comix belonged to; obsessing over their marketing strategies/profits, reputations, etc.. They'd be long on Super...hero, not so much. Not to say the superhero wouldn't show up, but he'd tend to be found in heavily monetized roles. The altruistic types would probably mostly be political or religious radicals.

Re: Anyone else hate Wolverine? Yeah, I used to dig the complexity, the eclectic backstory, etc. But it got old. Really old. Now I can't stand the sight of the guy. I don't really mind the berserker schtick. It's the pretensions of morality written in that piss me off. What's "grey" about a guy who murders people for poaching? Nothing. He's a murderer. And I guess a big part of the problem is he's a victim of his own success. Every writer's had a crack at him, and he's all worn out and no longer retentive. He got bigger than was justified. Edit: yeah, I thought it was funny how they sexied him up for the movies. Heh, no 5'4" leading men at the ready?

I just hate that guy. His smug self-righteousness, lack of introspection, etc. I know he's supposed to be the "anti-hero" or "bad boy" but to me he's just a dick. And a sociopath, of course. I guess what bothers me most about him is how we're supposed to LIKE the guy. He murders people to protect animals and I'm supposed to be on his side? WTF? I admit, I thought he was great when I was a kid, way back in the day reading Claremont/JRJR X-Men, Kitty Pryde & Wolverine, etc. It got old. Now he's just a wannabe samurai* (grew out of Nipponomania, too) cheeseball with inverted morals and a bad Elvis 'do. So this is supposed to have something to do with the game, right? Okay, ever put an effigy of a character you hate from comics and humiliate/torture/kill him in your campaign, like I'd like to do to Wolvie? *Can we put our heads together and try to come up with an ethnic group LESS likely to put up with this scumbag than the Japanese?