Normthebarman

He's not Spanish. He's Egyptian. 
 
*Edit - I see Tjack beat me to it.*
 
 
But this is a hard no from me. The original is a classic and should be left alone. 

He's not Spanish. He's Egyptian. 
 
*Edit - I see Tjack beat me to it.*
 
 
But this is a hard no from me. The original is a classic and should be left alone. 

Bragging about still actually having hair type post in my opinion. 

The political stuff is just background story flavouring. Mainly to provide NPC hooks worth investigating, to reveal the planned Eurostar attacks on *insert target here*. 
 
The brightly coloured KAPOOOW!s and over the top Michael Bay finales that we all know and love in our games are still there. It just adds a little bit more depth. 
 
Plus, I've always liked a political villain somewhere, with the whole diplomatic immunity schtick.

I try to stay out of US politics, especially when US folk are discussing it, but is there some kind of Freaky Friday thing going on with Greene? 
 
Seriously, she comes out with stuff I'd expect from a high schooler in some shitty teen movie. Is there a chance one of her kids is currently acting like an adult and confusing everybody as they smash it in their push for class president? 

I'd love to give it a try.  (Keying in characters into the Roll20 Hero character sheet has been nearly as much of challenge for the new players as creating their characters.)
 
I'm full up at the moment, but if anyone drops I'll be looking for replacements.

I try to stay out of US politics, especially when US folk are discussing it, but is there some kind of Freaky Friday thing going on with Greene? 
 
Seriously, she comes out with stuff I'd expect from a high schooler in some shitty teen movie. Is there a chance one of her kids is currently acting like an adult and confusing everybody as they smash it in their push for class president? 

I try to stay out of US politics, especially when US folk are discussing it, but is there some kind of Freaky Friday thing going on with Greene? 
 
Seriously, she comes out with stuff I'd expect from a high schooler in some shitty teen movie. Is there a chance one of her kids is currently acting like an adult and confusing everybody as they smash it in their push for class president? 

As someone that turned 57 last week and who spent 30 of those years working as a carpenter, I am definitely not the one to answer that question correctly.
 

The political stuff is just background story flavouring. Mainly to provide NPC hooks worth investigating, to reveal the planned Eurostar attacks on *insert target here*. 
 
The brightly coloured KAPOOOW!s and over the top Michael Bay finales that we all know and love in our games are still there. It just adds a little bit more depth. 
 
Plus, I've always liked a political villain somewhere, with the whole diplomatic immunity schtick.

I picked Russia due to their threat to European unity. Their aggression towards Ukraine, a Euro friendly state, and their overall opposition to the EU and a united Europe would be reason enough, for me, for Eurostar to look east. You could also argue that Eurostar would look at Russia as some kind of unwanted mongrel state due to it spanning the whole of Eurasia. 
 
Regarding Eastern Europe, most of the states are either already members of the EU or are striving to be so I wouldn't see them causing too much damage there unless there was some political opposition in one of them. 
 
Thinking about it more, if Brexit is involved in the game world, then absolutely I would expect attacks on the UK until they applied to rejoin. Since that would be seen as giving in to terrorist demands, I reckon you'd be looking at a long and sustained terrorist campaign against the UK and its assets around the world.
 
For cash, there's a whole wad of dodgy money in the Cayman Islands for them to steal. Maybe helping a corrupt Argentinian president in taking back the Falklands. Attacking members of the Commonwealth to pressure them to break away. 
 
Regarding them trying to control Europe, I'd have them financing militant, extremist pro EU parties and trying to leverage them in to power, while attacking foreign assets. The end goal being the EU ran by leaders under Eurostar's control, essentially making the EU the political arm of Eurostar. 
 
 

I think the key would be to make them, not White supremacists, but European supremacists. I've met no few European snobs who tend to look down on America, Canada, Australia and the like as boorish Johnny-come-latelys without the "rich culture" and "mature civilization" of Europe. In fact I've often heard Europeans lamenting the detrimental effect that cultural "imperialism" by the United States through their mass-market media organizations has had on their native cultures. For such people, whether or not those countries are predominantly white isn't relevant, they're still provincial and parochial. Whiteness and Christianity may be elements of that perceived European superiority, but they're far from defining, and white people from outside the continent are not their brothers, they're barbarians. Take that attitude to an extreme, and you have a motivation for a group to reassert European global dominance.
 

@John Desmarais I'd like to put my name forward. 
 
I'm just back to TTRPGing after a long hiatus, due to having young kids and a bad experience playing online many years ago.
 
However, I've spent the last 6 months on D&D 5e on Roll20 and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'd enjoy playing my favourite RPG, Champions, even more. 
 
I've been reading up on all of 6e recently, in the hope that I can convince my D&D group to give it a go, so I'm fairly familiar with the rules. 
 
Based in Scotland but the time difference is no problem at this end, my D&D group runs to about the same time. 
 
If your group is already full, best of luck with it and hope you all have a great time.