I'm not sure how "street level" would work with a party of superheroes. I mean, there's a finite amount of muggers looking to pay their crazy American medical bills y'all can punch into a gritty paste before they all decide to die quietly instead, so surely threat levels would escalate...?

@Wilder - Deadpool + Sith + Bad Fairy sounds highly entertaining. Any favourite stories there?

It works fine, as long as you allow for the muggers to have superpowers as well. And as for escalation, The Green Goblin may be dangerous, but he's not Doctor Doom-level dangerous. The Joker is extremely dangerous, as is Lex Luthor, but neither of them have world-threatening powers like Thanos or Sinestro.

If they had superpowers, somehow I doubt they'd stop at street-level crime...

If an entire gang of supers went after the Joker, he'd probably hide (or turn himself in and start tormenting the police for the hell of it) causing instability in the freak circles until some mighty villian showed up to sit in the gap, and Lex would hire plus plus supervillans...so either in kind or number there's going to be escalation. Also it'd be pretty depressing for PCs to punch down as they levelled up unless they really really loved making mugger hummus.

I'll stop corbie-picking the concept, though, since you know the only way I'd ever be persuaded to play a supers game would be if everyone had to pick their PC idea from their first (preference-filtered, naturally) roll on this thing: http://www.seventhsanctum.com/...ame=superheronameorg

Yeah, true enough. Drake City's gangs have already escalated to superpowered street gangs, though, so the escalation is already baked in to the premise.

Lol...I got an "Organoparagon." It's a bit sillier than I'm going for, sadly.

Come on, who wouldn't want to play Moth Warrior, Amphibian Nullifier or Green Rock? Or Slap Snake? *snicker* Ooh, I think I saw Car Shaman on a Russian TV ad once...

How about Feather Nullifier? That was a good one.

Does he nullify feathers or use a feather that nullifies things?

The first. Really powerful ability. Birds don't stand a chance when he's around.

Or have feathers and nullify things? [facepalm] I just misread "Clock Punch" and went "but that's not a superpower..."

!!! Fish Fighter!

...or Tiny Ghost...is drinking people's beer a superpower? Or being a kasa-obake?

Moldy Rogue is a good one...

Did you manage to roll that up? Actually, never mind, it's a pretty great superhero(villain?) name for an undead cat-burglar type...you can just picture the Drake City Post's headlines: mouldy rogue steals priceless ornaments!    mouldy rogue gets away!

And then they misprint it as Mouldy Rouge and everyone thinks that the story is about tainted cosmetics...

Everytime the OOC thread blows up I always find myself hopping in two days late. Anyway, I agree with everyone else. I am completely ok with waiting until you are back in the Deadlands groove. Going over to look at your Supers game right now.

Hi Han!

@Stray - add a supervillian and highly specifically modified Cordyceps fungus and that sounds like a Plot.

Wow. Has it really been over a year and a half since our last game posts here?

The coming of Good Intentions has me thinking Deadlands again. Are there any of you out there who want to dust this game off?

I'm still here!

Well, there's a game alert I didn't see coming. I'd certainly be down to saddle up again, though I'm unsure of my ability to keep up with the frenetic pace the game used to have.

[excitement circles]

Given my work load these days, I'm not sure I'd be able to manage the pace it was at before. Right now I'm updating my current game once a week (and plan top keep that around) so the pace would be around that.

Most excellent. I'd be in either way but that certainly would from a selfish perspective be ideal for me.

In reply to Thunder Walker (msg # 235):

You're still dead, though.

Logan isn't, though.

Don't tell me you're not working on it, though.

Relatedly, wasn't Mose still fighting a couple of armies last we heard?

Moses does as the Lord commands him.

Logan is alive and well. So far.