I never played it. When I got to Marvel games, it was Saga (which I loved). I'm down.

For Nightmares, we’re essentially talking about a post apocalyptic setting where the world (or at least the us) is controlled by sentinels. Theoretically, you would play characters who are part of the resistance. The setup in the game is intended to have the setting be your home town. Obviously that doesn’t work on this platform.

There are varying degrees of post apocalyptic we could do. This could be full on apocalypse, where the sentinels dole out rations to settlements and mostly leave humans to their own devices with periodic checks. Most communities are fearful of mutants, inundated with rhetoric and also just wanting to keep themselves safe from sentinel incursions.

Or we could do something a little less apocalyptic. More like an occupied Germany type thing. More of a war type environment. I think this smaller scale might work better. Picking a city like Chicago that has a downtown but also plenty of sprawl might work quite nicely. You are a member of the mutant underground, battling the sentinels, getting mutants to safety, etc.

Would there be a preference for the setup? The books are… not that helpful or well written and are more of a setting than any kind of plotline.
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Either works but i think the second allows for a wider range of scenarios.

Yes, the first 2 books (if I remember correctly) are just...setting and such, no actual 'adventure' (though the 2nd one might have had like some...encounters or something?) and then the 3rd, or at least the 4th, had some actual stuff in it to go through with the...Canadian Resistance I think?

Yeah, home town for a home game, not so much on this platform. Picking a city and using it would be the way to go.

Well. I mean, ideally, I'd like to go through at least the bits of adventure that were offered in the last book or two, but if you have different ideas and want to run something more of your own making that deals with less apocalyptic and more war...I guess I'd be willing to try it out.

Being part of the Resistance, or inducted into it at the beginning of the game would be my preference. Either all of us part of the same Cell and knowing each other or starting off being brought together or something?

Works for me.

The problem is, I’m already running too many games.

I have a whole setup, but I just am not sure I have time.

If you can't, then you can't. I understand. I'll keep looking for a GM here. I have some things going on, and this is a comfort game idea, albeit one I'd really like to play in.
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Bump
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Still looking for a GM to run a Marvel Superheroes (preferably FASERIP but potentially open to others) either Nightmares of Future Past or an Exiles/What If style game. We have a few interested players it looks like, and probably more would RTJ.

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Hello! Thank you for looking and be willing to GM. =)

So, you're more for running in that 'setting', but not the actual encounters and adventure pieces from the books?

I could try for 3 posts a week, 4 might push it. I can usually post every day to every couple of days.

Dice rolls or point buy?
I prefer some control over character builds myself.

This is a short form version of the unofficial point buy system if you're not familiar.

https://classicmarvelforever.c...ith-great-power.html

But mutants are random! lol

I like rolling. It can get weird, and hard to make coherent sometimes, but fun. Shrug. But I'd be okay either way.
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I would love to be part of this. Thank you for taking the time to cobsuder running this.

I could make an argument that mutants are often thematic rather than random.
But truth is both types exist. Just stating my personal favour.
Up to the storyteller.

This message was deleted by the user at 03:45, Wed 09 Oct 2024.

Mmm, I haven't read through the books in quite some time, but I vaguely remember the first 2 books being mostly setting and the setup, with a few bits and bobs that a Judge could use for hooks or encounters or whatever. The 3rd and 4th book had more 'meat' in them, adventure-wise, but I don't remember it being like an adventure path or anything. An older Nick Fury and Wolverine were in there, which is kind of cool.

And while I would like to have those run, if you don't want to, I get it. It's not a deal-breaker.
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Welp. That didn't last long. So looking for a GM again for either Nightmares of Future Past or an Exiles-Style/What If game.

Yup, less than a month, like I assumed it would. He was a little dictator, that's why I bailed.

Man, that's normally my jam but you caught me right when I'm trying to do something else. :(

After December, I could probably run this. Just can't focus on it now.

Well, those of us interested in playing will still be around if either of you are able to run at some point. =)

That'd be great.

This thread has me writing up a What If .. campaign in which the original and first Uncanny team are one by one killed by an unknown party, around the original Krakoa story, leaving Wolverine to train a new team to uncover the conspiracy. Things go from bad to worse rapidly.

But I already run 2 campaigns so would prefer to play.
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I like your idea Falkhor.