Re: Who are the copies/pastiches/tributes/captain ersatz in your campaigns?
...and John Carter, Doc Savage, and Moses... but who's counting
Thanks for sharing those. I haul out my first champions character for nostalgia too. He was an Ironman/Batman pastiche called "The Stranger"
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I dug out my copy of Enemies III and I found "The Corrupters of All." Cryotron, Gaussian, Sergeant Supreme and Bruiser. Yeah. With this crew as the big villain group, I remember why this was my least favorite.
Re: Who are the copies/pastiches/tributes/captain ersatz in your campaigns?
Both are fantastic ideas. Sometimes it's great to have the players name a monster/villain for you and sometimes it's terrible. You spend time developing this fearsome maniac of a villain and he gets tagged with "Big Red" (like the chewing gum) :-/
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That's pretty brilliant. I have a fiction pastiche of Batman (story is still bouncing around in my head) that I want to use the legacy angle with. I think it fits well and Hobgoblin sounds great. Do you have a write up?
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That's great. The Silver Age Green Lantern borrows heavily for E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensmen" series of books. I've borrowed heavily for Green Lantern myself, changing the ring into a pair of gloves/power suit/belt is a natural and easy pastiche.