Re: Help me grok HERO!
Not at present, but as we haven't gotten to the crunchy part of chargen, I'm open to suggestions. Attributes are limited to the "Average," "Skilled," and "Competent" columns of the Characteristics Comparison Table (6E1, p. 48).
Most likely, the U.S. Government. If they try to be capes, they'll be the targets of a, shall we say, aggressive recruitment drive. If they go bad, the recruiters will become even more aggressive. If they go really bad (mass murder), they'll more likely just be killed out of hand.
Tone is not super-grimdark, and with this group I expect there to be humorous moments, but overall I'm aiming for a fairly serious tone. As for the age, I don't know enough to be able to answer that.
I suspect they will be mostly "good," with the possibility of a "chaotic neutral" character.
The campaign will be set in Middleton, Kansas, a small farming town. I want the action to stay in the town, and have already advised my players that any power that takes them a significant distance away (flight, superspeed, megascale teleportation, extradimensional travel, etc.) will put them "offstage."
Honestly, my plans in that direction are very loose. The first gameplay session will be the empowering event and its immediate aftermath. After that, it depends on