Christougher

Gordon Lightfoot certainly did not need that song for his career. And he brought it to the families of the drowned sailors before he released it to ask for their approval. They all considered it a fitting tribute.
 
Detroit's Maritime Church rings its bell every year on the anniversary of the wreck, once for each sailor lost. Last year they added an extra stroke of the bell for Gordon Lightfoot after his passing.
 
(Sorry, that got my Canadian up a little.) 😌

R2-4Q 
 

LL doesn't drop much loot everyone, don't bother killing him.

"They're all over at <player name>'s house playing Humans and Hangovers."

I'm guessing the army, because, Colonel.

Yes, this idea can work and work well. Giving everyone a common origin, makes it simpler to weave plots together. And it makes less work for the GM on organizations.  Plus, single can still be pretty broad in scope.
 
It can also give some justification to fear by the population because these supers are different from the norm. All mages? They're after our souls! All cyborgs? They're going to turn us into spare parts! All mutants? We'll be replaced! Aliens? They'll enslave us and then eat us! It's much easier to fuel one strong conspiracy than lots of small ones.

Before I start, I should apologise, this is likely to be long and rambling. I am visiting my wife's mother, so I often lie in bed in the morning, delaying getting up and thinking.
 
Today my thinking is about HERO (recently it has all been about Baldurs Gate!).
 
HERO is a detail game and we build characters to have game effect.  It is seen as a difficult game because there is so much detail and new folk find it difficult to make effective characters.
 
I have been wondering whether that is because we start with everyman stuff and begin adding to it.
 
What if we started with a Hero?
 
If the focus was on game effect, then your standard hero would go, for example, five times a round, hit 60% of the time doing, on average, 15 STUN through defences and moves 20m.
 
You define your schtick, your attacks are because you are Strong, or because you have eye beams etc etc
 
You could then add "upgrades".  The first half dozen are "free", you could hit more people at once, move faster, have more actions, improve your defences, extend your attacks (versus different defences, more effective versus heavy armour, etc). You could add movement, add senses, add various things.
 
If you want more upgrades, you make compromises.  These can either be limiting the effectiveness of existing powers or taking on complications.
 
I wonder, perversely, if this focus on effectiveness would bring more attention to the powers rather than the mechanics. It would mean the players would have a big signpost to a standard that they deviate from rather than a base level they need to build from.
 
It would lend itself to big books of upgrades! 🙂 I can imagine the Ultimate Speedster book having lists of upgrades and compromises.
 
Obviously, those upgrades and compromises would all be coated and built (for the GM) rather than being black boxes like other games.
 
That's it.  An idea for a new way to play the build a character.  No other changes. And focussed on new players not existing experts...
 
Doc

You're killing me.  You lost half the joke.
 

Lucy, you’ve changed…here…have a snickers. Feel better? 

Which leads to a question: I am told I qualify for a number of those specific levels of Hell.  Am I doing timeshares among them?  Do I get parted out and have different segments of me in different places simultaneously?  Or something else?

That sort of thing is why they don't make flashcubes any more. 
 
Or better yet, one of those old-timey cameras where you put the flash powder in a pan loose. 
 
"Beware my doomsday device, you Gen Z slackers!  Its technology is far too outdated for you to even comprehend!"  - the Sesquicentenarian

An Elf, a Dwarf, and a Man walk into a bar.
 
Their Hobbit friend laughs and walks under it.

Possibly the best cosplay of the year--

Thanks, OM.
 
 
Yep.  Sad.
 
On the plus side, I am now happily aware that the "other word" doesn't even come to mind. 
 
I am never terribly delighted with me, but today, I am very proud.