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It could be like a form of Neverland, perhaps with a gothic horror tinge.

Maybe Lady Blue could team up with Shadow Queen to help with robberies that fund caring for the children. Even if they are stopped, the publicity could get interesting.

I always find package deals in the books helpful for this. Pick the archetype and take the disadvantages associated with them. Tweak as necessary.

I’m happy to be just an idea guy. Use some, all or none of the suggestions I’ve made. I’ll keep throwing out more because I love world building. It’s why I GM.

Another option is the Expert, a skill cost modifier introduced in Dark Champions which costs three points and works like Linguist or Well-Connected, reducing the cost of each skill in a related list by a point each. There is also Jack Of All Trades from Traveller Hero which works a bit like the OP wanted to do with skill levels. Neither of these suggestions is RAW, but they could be used in a campaign with GM permission.

Mental-based attacks would also seem to fall into this category of ignoring Physical or Energy Damage Negation.

A socially-conscious supervillain unleashes an airborne, easily transmissible, delayed effect virus that rewrites the chromosomes of all humans into a single racial type, effectively homogenizing all of mankind.

How does the Mayor and the city council view superhumans? Are they pro-superhero sorts, giving a team of heroes a taxpayer-funded base or anti-superhero types that think the likes of J. Jonah Jameson are speaking the truth? Somewhere in between? Are there individual police detectives, or maybe a dedicated unit of police, trying to root out secret identities and arrest the masked vigilantes? How about the state government? They have more funding than a city would, so maybe they have a task force that interfaces with superhumans. Or maybe it’s all federalized, and local law enforcement is constantly running into jurisdiction spats with the feds.

I imagine they could be conscripted too by more tyrannical types, but it isn’t a good idea. Such experts could secretly build in flaws intended to make it easier to take the structure down, kind of like what happened with the Death Star according to the plotline of Rogue One.

That’s awesome.

Twins graduating a year apart? Sounds like Melvin is the smart one and got advanced a year. Maybe he writes most of the show’s dialog. Their program could be a draw for supernatural hijinks now and then, like being forced to interview Nightmara or one of the dark magical girls in the city. Imagine if one of those villainesses becomes enamored of Melvin’s persona and want to make him their Dark Prince. Some drama could also evolve if Melody ends up becoming far more popular than Melvin ever was, even if the show was his idea.

I really like the name of The Ghastly Geisha, and it sounds much better to me than the first one. If she’s well-built, I suspect Melody could build up a pretty decent fan base. Her clothing choices could also branch out into various kinds of cosplay outfits. Did you mean kimono for her clothing?

The Spooky Kabuki could easily be an Elvira-like persona, since Elvira gained her fame working as a schlock horror movie hostess. Her type of snark would work well for both bad horror movies and bad king Fu films.

That’s fair, but in a Champions Universe more fantastic things can be going on down below. There could be an under city in the nether region between the coal mines and the subway tunnels. Perhaps one of the high-tech companies in the city has a sprawling underground research facility where they conduct illicit experiments. Maybe VIPER has several active Nests going on deep beneath the surface. Maybe this is where Nightmara maintains an Earthside court for her followers.

Hmm. Perhaps Underburgh for a name for it?

As a side note, some interesting builds can be done by selling off normal senses and buying special ones. For example, selling back Normal Sight and buying IR Vision or selling back Normal Hearing and buying Ultrasonic Hearing.

The prior post makes me wonder if there might be an Under-Pittsburgh where mutants and monsters lurk, or perhaps an entire community, some good and some bad, all going about their business in abandoned tunnels beneath the city.

Generate artificial earthquakes beneath the ocean that will unleash tsunami waves able to bury coastal cities beneath hundreds of feet of seawater.

I’m curious how they enforced their will on superhumans. Did the EPA have their own superhumans or agents armed with high-tech weaponry? Or were they able to use resources from other agencies for this?

Ms. Might is an older teenaged girl a little over 16 and one of the few heroic Boom Juice recipients in the city. She is a flying brick still learning her powers, roughly at the same ability level as DC’s Wonder Girl/Donna Troy was when she was that age. Her accidental exposure to Boom Juice transformed her overnight from a mousy, brunette teenager with glasses and a rather plain face into a supremely well-built young woman for her age and also added a couple of inches to her height. Although she no longer needs them, she still wears her glasses and has also taken to wearing baggy clothes in her secret identity as mild-mannered Sally Sanders, high school student.

This was just a random thought I had. What kind of special measures for dealing with waste disposal might need to exist in a world with superhumans? Do fans dig through the trash of the local superteam looking for souvenirs? Maybe there are people searching for things to sell? How much would an old mask go for? What might show up in a supervillain’s trash? Failed experimental weapon prototypes? Items of alien origin? What might Eurostar be putting in their trash? How about VIPER? Could alien microorganisms be getting released into the sewer system every time a team’s alien member uses the restroom? Could there be companies that provide specialty waste disposal services for superteams? How do the regular trash disposal companies work with them?

I found the medical debt concept to be a good replacement for the death during character creation notion of Classic Traveller, and dying appears to have been done away with after first edition. I think it’s called “Iron Man Traveller” now, for the true hardcore Traveller fan. Nothing like needing to pay your bills to motivate a group of adventurers to get out there and do something. Group character creation was actually a ton of fun for everyone, and it was like a mini campaign played out in a single session. The remaining characters have since been converted over to Hero, and we played the first session as the group started their pirating career. Since all three PCs were marines in the service until their forties and retired, they all worked out to be about roughly the same points, so everyone started at 225 despite having pretty modest stats. The crew of NPCs is starting to assemble as well. Our illustrious PCs are also using fake names as pirates, with Brigadier Meson now called Captain Nemos. He even started wearing a cape to present a more dashing figure.

I was looking at the furnace site. It seems like the sort of place that a freak like the Scarecrow or the Joker might use for a lair.

It looks like the sort of place one of Batman’s enemies might use as a lair.

Killavolt is a dark-skinned Boom Boy of mixed ancestry who chooses to use a mask and costume to hide his identity. His powers are electrical in nature, and he is able to project lightning bolts as well as shield himself from harm with an electromagnetic force field that is more effective versus ranged attacks than melee. He is able to fly but leaves a trail of electricity that fades quickly. He mainly sticks to small-time robberies and muggings and prefers to work solo.