Hey, guys! Just adding my two cents here:

I agree that an Earth-based game would be best, and I personally favor the comic book universe.

Okay, so let's go with current but loosely-interpreted timeline, comic book universe. Only bring as much canon baggage as you want to for your character, and feel free to retcon or conveniently fail to notice anything that hurts your heart.

Who are you thinking about playing?

I'm trying to think of someone with a big personality, or someone I can take that way. Overconfidence is a big plus.

I would say submariner, but he's probably too powerful.

Volstagg maybe?

I'm fine with you playing Namor if you're okay with me playing Howard the Duck with the Son of Satan's powers (as seen in Howard the Duck #14: https://www.marvel.com/comics/...ard_the_duck_1976_14).

The character sheet would be a mashup of the first Son of Satan datafile from Plot Points:

https://marvelplotpoints.com/2...le-daimon-hellstrom/

And the one for Howard here:

https://marvelplotpoints.com/2...ile-howard-the-duck/

If that's too weird, I'm also considering Vance Astro or Shatterstar.

As long as we're going with randomness, is there any appetite at all for making random characters? That would mean original, non-canon characters, which can be a challenge with MHR, but it might go with the overall theme.

I'd probably suggest using the old faserip rules (out of print but available online) to generate characters, then convert them to MHR.

We should also make sure we agree on any house rules / conventions for the.

The main house rule I use limits counterattack to when you have a opportunity. Otherwise it's too powerful.

For conventions, I usually avoid purchasing extra total dice when I've put a d4 distinction into a pool.

Also, when in doubt, I tend to take a lesser dice pool than try to shoehorn an explanation to get a bigger pool. For example, if I don't have a specialty that clearly and obviously applies, I'll leave that die out entirely. Most common example would be guys without Combat. Combat is usually the specialty that will apply in combat, so I'll often leave out that die altogether.

Another convention I use in pbp to help with bookkeeping is to purchase opportunities by default. The exception is if the Doom pool is already large (like >8 or 9 dice) then I'll stop. This might be less of an issue with anyone being able to  post reactions.

My pitch was for a canon game, but I'm not opposed to random character generation if everyone else is on board for it, but if we do we'd use the published system:

https://files.meetup.com/17136..._randomdatafiles.pdf

Let me know what you'd rather. If no preferences are given, we'll go with straight canon, as I don't want to get bogged down before we start.

Considering the power-levels at play here (assuming Namor and Howard The Son of Satan are your characters), I'd either go with Shiver Man (who I really wish got more issues) or Torpedo (not sure which one yet, though).

I would prefer a canon game, though with the caveat that we get to decide what is canon for our characters.

Let's do that then.

Canon heroes, with canon being at the discretion of the writers. Loose canons, if you will.

I'm still waffling on my choice, but can you two confirm your choices when you have a minute?

I've had a bit more interest, so am getting the new joiners signed up as well. Everyone will be posting their preferences, and I'm using Namor as the benchmark for power levels. Play who you want, not who you think can stand up to the most powerful among us. Wasp has been with the Avengers since the beginning, and she's never had a problem finding something to do.

One of our potential players is considering bringing someone over from the DC universe, and I'm fine with that. If you want to do that same and can justify it, fire it up. This is meant to be a low-stress, fun experiment.

Loose canon is fine with me.

I'm not enthusiastic about mixing publishers, but dc WOULD open up more options. And in the spirit of "yes, and" let's go for it and see how it goes.

I'm leaning against Namor, especially if we're going to have a weird team. I think Namor might be a little tougher than we want, at least how he's depicted in the comics. Spiderman (again comics - I think his data file might actually be tougher than Namors) is probably where we should shoot for.

Which means I need to commit to SOMETHING!

If we're doing weirdos + dc, I kind of want to do something like Wonder Twins, Agents of Shield :-)

Hi, everyone. I'm here and looking forward to being part of this group.

I'm just happy to be here so I'll go along with whatever y'all decide. Though it would be my vote for established heroes in a straight/non-alternate universe, either Marvel or DC but not both (unless the point is that they're mixed).

I might have more to say later but I can't count on being here over the weekend. I look forward to what you all come up with and decide and what I can do to be a part of it.

I'd rather stick to just one universe, but I'm fine with someone bringing over a DC character if they want.

I'm gonna go with Torpedo (Brock Jones) as my character. I'm just gonna conveniently ignore everything that happened when he became a side-character in the Rom comics.

Got it!

Torpedo led me to Blue Diamond, who led me to Black Marvel, who led me to Ricochet. I'll be able to play him with one of my favorite personalities and his costume is just stupid-awesome. I love the mid-90s bomber-jacket costumes!

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki...hon_Gallo_(Earth-616)

I'll commit to Ricochet

I'm going with Shatterstar as statted in the Civil War: X-Men sourcebook. Fugitive from the future, Mojoverse gladiator, and planning to play up the naivety.

Sweet! We've got an awesome D-list team coming together! One early80s guy and two mid90s guys.

I like it!

Character names for Torpedo and Ricochet have been updated, and I've added Shatterstar for myself.

This might be off-topic but having a campaign without a central GM made me think of it:
When I started gaming again a few years ago, with MHR, I came up with an idea for a another game playing DC heroes. I've wanted to play Mayfair's DC Heroes 2nd Edition (on my IRL bucket-list) and had a great idea to start a campaign but I knew I couldn't carry running a second game, so I wanted to establish an aspect where we could pass around GMing duties among players, maybe every few dozen posts or with every scene or randomly, or something like that. But my friends whom I thought would be gaming anything with me flaked out, and I can't get my hopes up to find reliable strangers who would be willing to co-run a game that hasn't gained any new players in a few decades. It's a wonderful system, and something I would love to return to if I wasn't so involved with MHR/Cortex. I'm sure the founder of this game has a different idea for how to conduct it, and I'm excited about the elements of randomness, but it makes think of non-conventional, GM-less games and intentions I had for one.

So, D-list heroes? Give me a minute, I'll come up with something.

Interestingly, Ricochet has worked with Turbo (the third person to wear the Torpedo suit). Fun little connection there.

Also, that costume is the exact description of the 90s. It is perfect. Lol.

I love the D-List idea! Are we all onboard with that or still getting Namor? If it’s the former, I’m eyeballing Dazzler, Hellcat, or Sepulchre! Maybe even Moonstone! Are there data files for Satana or Valkyrie?

BTW, speaking of Mayfair DC, I’m the player who proposed importing a DC character. :-)

I was thinking of Namor at one point. As I've settled on Ricochet, Namor would be a no, unless the 5th person decides to go for him.

(classic) Valyrie: https://marvelheroicrp.fandom....nders,_Hero_Datafile)
Satanna: https://marvelplotpoints.com/2...her-datafile-satana/

Satanna is a watcher datafile, so it would require some modification
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We seem to have gone with a D-list set-up, which is perfectly fine with me (I prefer the more obscure characters, myself).

Finally got my Datafile done. The one I found on Torpedo was missing some details, so I filled it in with another person's version and with a little wrangling on my own end.

Is it cool if I wait until This Person Also chooses a character?

My Choices
Dazzler
Firebird
Monet St. Croix
Moonstone
Satana
Sepulchre
Valkyrie
This message was last edited by the player at 12:20, Mon 23 Nov 2020.

I put a data file I found online in my description but I want to make a few minor changes