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Cage matches with no furnishings sounds like an advantage to characters with a naturally high DCV (no AOE attacks by tossing debris). And that movement powers would be largely useless. Is the fight club “all powers” as in “I can bring my blaster, power armor, and grenades” or is it strictly fist fighting and melee weapons?

What kind of arena are you thinking of? An empty boxing ring? A soccer stadium filled with cars and tanks to pick up and fling around? Also, 5e or 6e?

Never cater for a superhero’s wedding.

Does anyone want to know about Deadpool’s other brother, Laid Wilson?

Grenadepool sounds like Deadpool’s younger brother. ==== After being attacked by ruthless cloned mutant squirrels who were after his brother, Deadpool, Suede Wilson lay close to death. Deadpool, thinking quickly, emptied a pile of pixie sticks to build a crude transfusion device and infused his own blood into his brother’s dying body. The regenerative factors of Deadpool’s blood brought Suede back from the brink of death...but unfortunately did nothing to fix his chronically bad eyesight. Deadpool brought his brother into the merc business but after several unfortunate incidents with innocent schoolchildren, it became clear that Suede should leave firearms to the professionals. So today as “Grenadepool”, Suede Wilson uses his mercenary skills in an unending battle against armies of mutant squirrels...which hopefully exist in the real world and not just in his head. After all, if the squirrels really exist, he might win his battle someday and quit shooting grenades all over the place.

One thing I’ve thought of trying is to shrink NYC and other places in order to make room. In real life NY is both the financial center and the fashion center of the county, for example. Spin off either of those, or some other industries, to another city in your campaign and there’s no reason for NY to be so populous. Give your city a decent port and railroads and it would siphon of business from ports up and the coast.

For bringing a group together, if they’re wanting to play younger people, they could be cousins coming of age at roughly the same time. Or perhaps the offspring of a group of former adventurers. They could be coming together for an anniversary service commemorating some great victory or defeat, a funeral, or some family event. Their travels on the road could be the first adventure and their shared background would provide plot hooks for the future. Perhaps inherenting personal rivalries, enmity from some organizations and gratitude from others. People could show up looking for help from the original heroes and have to settle for the kids.

Some YouTube channel will get a hundred thousand hits per Titans episode by splicing in Cap admonishing “language” after Robin’s every swear word.

I can understand Disney’s position. All of those offensive remarks were made by Gunn publicly in the last 7-10 years. Gunn was an adult at the time and was fully responsible for his conduct and remarks. Disney by knowingly employing him at this point would be effectively giving a stamp of approval to Gunn’s remarks, in the minds of many people, no matter what Disney tried to claim otherwise. Disney can hire literally any director in Hollywood and the next Guardians movie would be financially successful because the actors are contracted to return for it. Their big financial unknown, for just the next movie, is what would happen if there’s a big anti-Gunn backlash which might sink the franchise and might trigger clauses in the actors’ contracts which would let them out of their obligation to be in the movie. I think it’s a bad decision. But most studios become financially risk-adverse when they think millions are on the line.

Low level: The kids in the pirate costumes meet the kids in the ninja costumes in the middle of the street and argue about which side collected the best Halloween candy. Mid-level: The pirates and ninjas obliterate a small city in a battle which will go down in history. High level: Dead and mangled pirates lay everywhere with absolutely no sign of who killed them...other than that it happened instantly, violently, and totally without warning. Next up: VIllains attack a superhero retirement village (aka assisted living facility)

As for an unmentioned evil: necrophilia could create some niche economic markets. And a reason for both murders of passion and conquest of other nations. I think with a country stuffed full of necromancers that one of the country’s prime exports would be disgruntled necromancers. Why work a mid-level management position when you can move away and set yourself up in a place where there’s no competition and potentially take over a city or country? But in any case, I agree that the greatest evil would be war on neighboring countries in order to generate bodies. Wars would even be popular in the management economic classes because managing more bodies means more opportunities for advancement. I could also see the government, and perhaps the dominant religion, either gently or forceably, encouraging pregnancies. More bodies means more long-term laborers and soldiers. Rights of women (who are of breeding age) to travel or otherwise risk themselves in public might be curtailed. Leaving such women with the ability to exit.the county would be catastrophic so there’d be a human trafficking underground taking women out (for financial gain, humanitarian reasons or both). I like the plot hook idea of a criminal ring, or government agency, which collects money from upscale women to smuggle them out of the county but which then sells the women into pregnancy slavery elsewhere in the county. There might be a brisk slave trade to bring in women to forceably work as breeders. Foreign sailors in port might be at risk of being shanghied and next appearing as a zombie in some work camp. Merchants and caravan guards would likewise be at risk. For some reason, my post started off dark and kept getting darker: I blame the subject matter....

I tend to give every character of mine a 15 active point multipower as a “utility belt”. What is actually on the belt varies by the character concept. I wouldn’t give pop-out glider wings to a character who shouldn’t fly or a RKA gun to a four-color character, for example. But a character who isn’t a loner gets a communicator. People without enhanced senses might get IR binoculars or something similar. The ninja gets smoke bombs. The safe-cracker gets a stethoscope, etc. I’d like to give everyone smelling salts, epi-pens, END and STUN aids, and ways to get around medical problems. But most GM’s don’t seem to like a utility belt which gets around medical problems during combat. Cell phones come free but really shouldn’t be used (or have a battery inside) in hero ID or at crime scenes for security purposes...unless you want the police, the feds, your hunted, your GM, etc. to nail you. If the phones get encrypted and can’t be tracked on phone company cell towers, it’s a power which must be purchased. For my characters, I usually play highly competent people or paranoids. Or highly competent paranoids. I establish that I have a flashlight, a lighter, pen and paper, some basic tools, sealed food & water, and various other useful items at home and in my room at the HQ. Might never need any of it... or there might be a zombie apocalypse next weekend. You never know.

Darkness, heat, flames, fear, hopelessness, sulfur stench, summoning demons or imps, transformation yourself or others into their “worst selves”, a variable result draining which affects whichever power or trait the victim most values, a general sense that you’re in Cleveland....

Mystique Captain Foggy Amidst The Perceptionist General Mayhem The Hidden Tendrils Portal - with the hero pulling dangerous fog from Elsewhere. Or heck, just call him “Elsewhere”.

We came, we saw, we fought the Conquerors....

Star Trek: Baywatch...chronicles the adventures of a group of ensigns who are undercover as lifeguards at the most popular resort on Risa.

Vamping Your Friends for Blood and Prophets (The gentleman vampire’s guide to subverting religious institutions)

I’d start by transforming the universes so that no one would consider ever opposing my will.

It wouldn’t be the first time....

No problem, I was just having some fun. And I found the idea amusing that the girls would be thinking of their dates and perhaps losing their virginity while their family members are busy in a ritual trying to give them magical powers.

I don’t have problems accepting that a legend can do it. I just have difficulty accepting that if some student with 10STR learns to do a Martial Strike that he can average doing 8 BODY to the environment and up to 16 BODY with good rolls... and that before pushing his strength. PD of very heavy wood is 5 7PD for reinforced brick or a metal plate A pile of reinforced brick the size of a person would have 7 body according to Champions Complete. So such a person with average rolls could completely destroy that pile, reducing it to zero body, with 7 Martial Strikes. I just don’t see an average person doing that level of damage just because of a few points in martial arts.

So they’re the Charmed Ones. One of the girls could fall in love with their guardian angel and another could fall in love with a major demon. But I’m not sure about the mother and grandmother giving them their powers on prom night. It has possibilities but could get messy.

I don’t see it with martial arts. Most of them don’t literally bust down entire walls or punch their way through an engine block. Think of when The Hand assassins go after Daredevil. They’re usually not ripping through walls to get to him like they could if walls took x2 body damage from martial arts. If player martial artists get it, NPC’s should get it, in my opinion. When playing 3rd edition, I knew several brick characters who bought tunneling of 1” and ran up the amount of defense it could get through in order to simulate being able to punch through anything. In a multipower the cost was minimal and bricks could “punch” their way through a bank vault when they wanted. Something similar could have been done for anyone with energy projection powers if the player thought his character concept called for that kind of destructiveness.

I learned to add to 250 in my head really fast. That turned out to be a very useful skill when I took accounting classes. :D

Anika Hensley, aka Lady Unluck, is widely regarded as the most unfortunate mutant heroine of the modern age. To date, her “Staff of Power” has been documented to have set fire to her own wings no less than nine times, with two of those times winning the weekly prize on America’s Funniest Superhero Videoes. (Note the characteristic charring on her once angelic white wings.) Of special interest to fans of superheroics, the name “Lady Unluck” is not Anika’s name for herself. But every attempt to record, transmit, and/or broadcast that other name has resulted in spectacular accidents which have prevented that name from becoming known. Most news outlets know to bleep out her official superhero name when she says it...at least since the infamous WKRP incident of 2013. But despite her somewhat...uneven... record of battling villainy, Anika is still out there fighting the good fight and searching for any team which might someday be brave enough allow her onto the roster.