Falcon old bean, can you please put your datafile in your Character Description to match the other players? Cheers!

Sorry, don't know why I turned British all of a sudden.

Cheerio, gov'nah.

Hey all,

Thanks for your patience and your enthusiasm. Today is a busy one for me; I'm going to create a randomized table to determine the order for the players to roll on the random generation tables as needed, and get the first IC post up tomorrow. 'Til then, True Believers, Make Mine Marvel Heroic!

11:59, Today: Dazzler rolled 3 using 2d6.  Events Check.
       

I’m off for Christmas shopping, so I’ll go ahead and post my roll here.

Thanks!

Players, you can choose to put up an establishing post if you feel like setting your character up, or wait until the results of the rolls are revealed before your first post. Your call!

<<Players should feel free to call for randomization any time they want to.>>

Randomization of what? Can I call for it now?

How much more is going to be done with the Rolling Order thread? Do we need a Status Tracker thread?

Blast it: The establishing post I wrote could be appropriate for a certain season that is not winter. I'll rejigger it for something I can use, assuming there's isn't another prompt to act on while I'm rewriting. I like where this is going already (since I like randomness like that).

Randomization of anything you might want randomized. Reactions, introduction of new NPCs, additions to the environment, anything at all. None of this is required, it's just a way to color the scenes and help spark creativity. If things are chugging along and everyone is merrily posting, we can move things along ourselves and not rely on random tables.

You can call for randomization any time, at least for now. I've never used this system before, so this is all uncharted territory. I expect that with everyone's input I'll fine-tune things as we go along. The main focus is fun and sparking creative writing energies.

Torpedo, can you please roll me 2d6? Thanks!

Sure!

08:15, Today: Torpedo rolled 6 using 2d6.

Thanks! Working on a post now; expect some delays this week because of the holidays, and I'll expect the same from you. :)

Okay, first post is up. At this point, players can take this in any direction they want. We don't need to randomly roll again unless you want to. If you want to, tell me what random thing you want to roll for (NPC, a reaction, meeting someone, a challenge, whatever your mind can conjure). If you decide to introduce something that leads to combat, we'll roll that as usual per MHR rules, with me acting as the doom pool.

Questions? If not, let's write!

Falcon's going to be in the park. I'll work on getting my first post up soon.

I was going to ask which version of Falcon's look you were thinking of having, whether it's the open-chest and lantern bracelet (possibly in green) or otherwise. "Wings made of hard light extend from his back..." answers that, I suppose.

Yeah, I liked the sound of the Wakandan-made suit mentioned on his datafile so I went with that. I'm sure he's got other suits (including the original) lying around, too.

Form over function, I suppose, but the old-school version is so badass:

I finally came up with Milestones. If we don't have a specified Watcher then I leave these up to everyone else for approval or suggestions. If you have some ideas, especially for the second set, let me know. The first set could be a lot of fun, the second one could be a challenge, especially if the Cult of Kali doesn't come up in the campaign (and there's no reason it should). There's also some similarity between both 10XP triggers, if not being in direct contradiction, but I'd be willing to go with one or the other. We could play these out to see what happens.

Undercover Hero
1 XP when a villain doesn’t attack you because they think you’re also a villain
3 XP when you cause Stress to a villain within your Team Affiliation
10 XP when you shut down a criminal organization due to your undercover activities

Cult of Kali
1 XP when you find a clue inferring the Cult of Kali
3 XP when you interact with a member of the Cult of Kali
10 XP when you shut down the Cult of Kali or join it again

FYI, I'm in the process of trying to change my RPoL user name to SacMan and apparently need to notify any games I'm in. We'll see if it goes through.

(The unwieldy "sacmarvelrpg" was chosen to give my old IRL players something easy to remember when they searched me to join my game... which, y'know, never actually happened...)

I picked my RPOL user name well before I thought I'd be on the site so much. If I knew I was going to do so much on here for so long I'd have given more thought to my name. I've just gotten used to it (as I have with various other sites I've given a dumb name to, including the site where I met my wife).

Having a dumb name somewhere on the internet is almost like a rite of passage. I've been using my current dumb name since I was around 12.

Hey all, with sincere apologies I need to cancel this game. I hope to be able to restart it at some point, but right now I can't devote any time to it.

If someone would like to take it over please let me know. If I don't hear from anyone within 7 days I'm going to delete.

Thanks for your interest, and hopefully I'll find you again.

Real life can be a drag sometimes. No hard feelings from this Falcon. And I'll consider your offer, if no one else volunteers.

If anyone wants another Marvel Heroic PbP game, mine is always open: link to another game

And thanks to Wading for starting and keeping this one together as long as he did. It's a bummer it didn't work out but hopefully we'll all meet up again.
This message was last edited by the player at 10:16, Wed 06 Jan 2021.

It's a shame that this game is closing, but I entirely understand. Best of luck to you, Wading!

@Shroud: I might join your game. Would I be able to just drag Torpedo over as is? Or are there house rules at play in your game that I should know of?

Shroud, do we have the option of playing a NPC?

Wouldn't playing an NPC invalidate that designation?

There are house rules for my game (though mechanically it's as straight-from-the-book MHR as I can make it, with minor adjustments to rules just to clear up a few things rather than re-creating it to be my own thing), the biggest and most relevant right now being that all new players must run a hero with an official build from a list (in the RTJ thread) for the first adventure (which is actually ending before long so you'll get a relative short-cut). But after that we can talk about a hand-made build (as long as there is precedent for the character in the comics).
This message was last edited by the player at 10:41, Thu 07 Jan 2021.