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LoonyLadle
 member, 145 posts
 Nothing is sacred.
 Everything is permitted.
Sat 18 Jul 2020
at 13:14
 msg #1
Mutants and Masterminds
I am looking to play a Mutants and Masterminds game. I would prefer (but do not require) an original setting rather than the Marvel/DC universes, one where supers are either or both of just beginning to emerge and fairly uncommon. I like to play weird characters that have no direct counterpart to any existing fiction, and enjoy well-built worlds that have realistic consequences for my actions. I would really rather avoid the common trope of "weedy-woodly-woo, now you have superpowers, how mysterious!" so that I can effectively employ my unique characters' backstories and power origins.

More than just fighting supervillains, I want to have the opportunity to change the world for the better (or worse). I enjoy realistic politics and social issues in my games, and especially watching how they shift and evolve in the response to the mainstreaming of superpowers. I enjoy meeting interesting NPCs and learning to care about them, whether it be for good or ill.

I have an extensive back catalogue of characters looking for homes; GMs interested in making a game that caters to a specific character may PM me for an up-to-date list of who I am most interested in playing at the moment.

This message was last edited by the user at 03:38, Sat 04 Mar.

Storm Caller
 member, 47 posts
Sun 19 Jul 2020
at 07:57
 msg #2
Mutants and Masterminds
I would throw my hat in as a player for a game like this.
wizzard
 member, 53 posts
Sun 19 Jul 2020
at 13:44
 msg #3
Mutants and Masterminds
I can also get behind a game like this.
soulsight
 member, 310 posts
 Reality is 10% perception
 and 90% interpretation.
Wed 22 Jul 2020
at 02:56
 msg #4
Mutants and Masterminds
I, too, would look forward to a game like this.
Ameraaaaaa
 member, 23 posts
Thu 23 Jul 2020
at 10:39
 msg #5
Mutants and Masterminds
Count me in.

Edit. Actually nevermind I'm probably too busy at the moment.

This message was last edited by the user at 05:47, Sat 25 July 2020.

LoonyLadle
 member, 146 posts
Sat 25 Jul 2020
at 16:28
 [deleted] | msg #6
Mutants and Masterminds

This message was deleted by the user at 01:21, Sun 13 Feb 2022.

Harley Quinn
 member, 37 posts
Sat 25 Jul 2020
at 17:05
 msg #7
Re: Mutants and Masterminds
LoonyLadle:
(dammit RPoL let me quote myself!

Then do not post it as a quote just copy and paste.
pnvq12
 member, 76 posts
Sun 26 Jul 2020
at 19:02
 msg #8
Re: Mutants and Masterminds
I would also be interested in playing.
Shigoki
 member, 5 posts
Sun 26 Jul 2020
at 21:26
 msg #9
Re: Mutants and Masterminds

Count me in to play.
LoonyLadle
 member, 147 posts
Fri 7 Aug 2020
at 04:51
 [deleted] | msg #10
Re: Mutants and Masterminds

This message was deleted by the user at 14:47, Fri 23 Sept 2022.

Willis
 member, 238 posts
Fri 7 Aug 2020
at 17:39
 msg #11
Re: Mutants and Masterminds
I'd love to try out the new M&M too...
Sir Swindle
 member, 212 posts
Wed 19 Aug 2020
at 14:00
 msg #12
Re: Mutants and Masterminds
LoonyLadle:
I would prefer an original setting rather than the Marvel/DC universes, one where supers are either or both of just beginning to emerge and fairly uncommon.


How original were you thinking?

LoonyLadle:
Hopeful bump! Maybe a brief explanation of the character I hope to play will rouse some interest.


How married are you to that concept?

Orson Welles:
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Which is to say I think super hero games especially, work better when players have some sort of creative prompt for generating their characters. My home group uses a random powers deck my buddy found. Weaver Dice has the other players generate the powers based on a random tragedy keeping the player's loose goals in mind. Another one I saw had you powers be basically a 3 part gig where you write one then you pass to the player to your left and to your right.
LoonyLadle
 member, 148 posts
 Nothing is sacred.
 Everything is permitted.
Tue 25 Aug 2020
at 09:32
 msg #13
Re: Mutants and Masterminds
Sir Swindle:
How original were you thinking?


Mostly I just don't want the overhead of fifty bazillion heroes who have been around longer and are better than me in every conceivable way. I want to be part of the first wave, and not have to live in Super Dark Phoenix Psyker Wolverine Galactus' Left Bollock Man's shadow.

So if you want to take the real world and apply superheroes, that's fine. If you want a fictional City of Adventure, or to take things into the past or future, that could be fine. If you want to make a whole new world from the ground up that would work too, though it seems a lot of effort.

Sir Swindle:
How married are you to that concept?


Not immensely, but it ties up a lot of aspects I want to explore into a single mechanically interesting character. I'm certain that some degree of translation will be necessary to make the idea work in whatever metaphysics framework you come up with. I'm not entirely opposed to adapting one of my innumerable existing characters into a superhero, but I do find a lot of traditional super origin stories incredibly trite.

Orson Welles:
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.


A wonderful sentiment, one I generally agree with.
LoonyLadle
 member, 150 posts
 Nothing is sacred.
 Everything is permitted.
Fri 18 Sep 2020
at 07:37
 msg #14
Re: Mutants and Masterminds
Still looking for a game. I'm not married to the character concept I posted earlier; I'll take any compellingly written setting!
wizzard
 member, 54 posts
Fri 18 Sep 2020
at 13:13
 msg #15
Re: Mutants and Masterminds
I think a re-do of Marvel's "New Universe" might be a good start to a game.  Everyone has the 'same' origin of a single event.  Or look at White Wolf's Aberrant game where the official cause is one event, but the real cause is a little more.... not sinister but not what the world thinks it is. Or was.
LoonyLadle
 member, 151 posts
Sun 27 Sep 2020
at 18:35
 [deleted] | msg #16
Re: Mutants and Masterminds

This message was deleted by the user at 15:24, Tue 28 Dec 2021.

LoonyLadle
 member, 159 posts
Wed 4 Aug 2021
at 21:11
 [deleted] | msg #17
Re: Mutants and Masterminds

This message was deleted by the user at 15:24, Tue 28 Dec 2021.

MrKinister
 member, 131 posts
Wed 4 Aug 2021
at 21:53
 msg #18
Re: Mutants and Masterminds
I see there's a lot of takers, so I am naturally going to add my hat into the ring, logic be damned!

Hey Wizzard, long time no see "quark". =)
TMTO
 member, 41 posts
Thu 5 Aug 2021
at 05:53
 msg #19
Re: Mutants and Masterminds
Can I indicate interest too?
LoonyLadle
 member, 160 posts
 Nothing is sacred.
 Everything is permitted.
Thu 5 Aug 2021
at 20:01
 msg #20
Re: Mutants and Masterminds
Honestly, I think it's safe to say that any regular superhero Mutants and Masterminds game that goes up will likely get mobbed by interested applicants. It's just finding a GM that is challenging.
LoonyLadle
 member, 162 posts
Sun 15 Aug 2021
at 01:35
 [deleted] | msg #21
Re: Mutants and Masterminds

This message was deleted by the user at 15:24, Tue 28 Dec 2021.

MrKinister
 member, 132 posts
Sun 15 Aug 2021
at 01:50
 msg #22
Re: Mutants and Masterminds
That reminds me of a time, a few years ago, of a fella, I forget his name, who was asking for an M&M game here every few days. He was quite persistent. Then, I remember seeing a game open, applying for it, getting in, and playing for a while. Eventually it folded, like many games do, but the original poster looking for the game never even knew it was around. He never applied to the game. The game ad came out, it was mobbed by seven or eight people, and then it was closed two days later once it was full. I honestly don't think that fella even knew the game ad was out at all. Oh well. It happens.

I thought it was a rather odd situation of not paying attention to the game recruitment thread.

*shrug*
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