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Sucks we never got this game really going. Several of my ideas, as I was telling Cheyne, have been used recently in current Marvel books (Skrull invasion, cosmic stuff, Namor goodness, and more). Alas. We never got a chance to off Paul's powerless character...

that's no reason not to do it anyway... and online is so very forgiving of people's lack of time.

Perhaps. I'd even like to do a modern Marvel U setting. As always, it would be a What If? type story. Cosmic, Civil War, or whatever. I hoped last time that people would do the research I asked them to do so the setting would matter more. Oh well. Might be easier for them to keep up with current Marvel. To be honest, I think a DC rpg would be a blasty blast. Also interested in the Star Trek game...

If anyone is interest in a modern Marvel U game shout it out here. Two themes sound appealing to me:
Marvel Knights - all street-level heroes OR villains (emphasis on Civil War fallout, alliances, and strategy)
Cosmic - mix of heroes and villains fine (fight some Phalanx, explore the galaxy, and protect/enslave worlds)

Such a game would really pick up in the summer with some small intros and individual stuff here and there before. I miss Dalton...

I would be up for any supers game in all honesty... I have not been able to play a real supers game (I do not count the single or double session false starts as counting as a game) and have wanted to for years...

any of your suggestions would be interesting in various ways...
street-level would be easier to get involved since I have not read much in the way of comics (too short except in TPB)

the cosmic would be cool and any materials provided as research I would read (TPB, 5+ comic story arcs, etc)

DC U game would be cool too... if it was set in JLU type environment I would actually have some frame of reference from the series (JL, JLU, Superfriends (JK), Teen Titans, Legion of Superheroes, etc).. I know not all these are in the same world but they do give an idea of what kind of events can happen

well, i'm down. other people are still migrating to the boards currently, but several people were enthused last time, and still talk about how it "sucks that chris' game didn't take off..." so i think you will have some takers. preferably not as many as last time though. too many people makes for pain and confusion.

So Marvel is using another idea I had for this game! Nova is visiting the Phalanx homeworld - or the homeworld of the people the Phalanx sprang from! My IDEA!

To me, the Phalanx are the Borg. I was going to have a race that allowed machines to grow out of control and so forth. Dammit.

This may be waaaay off topic but I was wondering how much anyone knew about the DC universe and the Joining... they seem very borgish but all mechanical... the reason I ask is because one of their cartoons right now are having them be the villian du jour right now... was wondering if this is an example of lazy writers for the shows copying stories from marvel universe instead of poaching their own comics or coming up with their own ideas...

Never heard of them. Cheyne?

thael watches cartoon-verse. i think they are a product of it.

anyway, go make a vampire dark ages character you troll.

no point in teasing me about watching the cartoons since you ASKED me to let you borrow what I had...

i wasn't teasing you. i'm just saying, i think they are cartoon-verse. that's all.

Hey look another dead thread. I come into these and wonder, "How many extra views will this tread get when people see a red star by it?"

Well...

Liquidprism wrote:Hey look another dead thread. I come into these and wonder, "How many extra views will this tread get when people see a red star by it?"

Well...

good point.

Yay! It worked. I'm gonna try it somewhere else now. In case anyone is curious, the post count went up by like, ten.

The cover of Guardians of the Galaxy #3 made me think of this game, as it was to include the future Guardians as part of a meta-plot involving a temporal war. The PCs were to become the new Guardians, flying about in a Celestial ship (as in the old X-Factor). Each character had story.

Gideon - engineered by Mr Sinister, Katie was created from DNA obtained from Rachael Summers. So, Summer's DNA, advanced and evolved through the help of the High Evolutionary, allowed Katie to not just affect gravity, but physics. More precise control would be developed, opening up other realms and nifty things.

Temple - Mary Jane was an Inhuman, deriving her power from the Terregin Mists her parents obtained. She would have access to their aid and resources.

Dalton - He was soon to meet his full demon form in hell. With the Help of Ghost Rider and Terror, he was going to defeat it as his human host sublimated, allowing for his full demon form to be available with that nifty leftover human soul to ground him. New Hell powers would really give him a bump. Some dimension travel too.

Josh - He was the neatest. A living shard of the M'Kraan Crystal. His reality warping powers would advance to the point where he could greatly alter the worlds around him. Since he was a part-time player (that was the plan) he could just blink in and out. Jamie Madrox was teaching him and would later use him in a ploy to take over the Siege Perilous. Warp was the nexus of the temporal and dimensional storyline.

First, the characters were to confront Sinister in a side-story involving Katie. Through this, they found the ship and would be launched into space. There, in a chance meeting, the would cross through a location in space occupied by the Guardians in the future. An anomaly (Josh) would pull the Guardians through into present time. A fun hero battle would take place. After which, the team would occasionally team-up with the Guardians in the time-jumping story. Next stop, a Celestial husk (very similar to the one found in comics recently by Nova). This dead Celestial acted as a hub for others. Through a meeting with a herald of Galactus here, the team would learn of a Skrull invasion on Earth (very similar to the present storyline). already, the team had heard of Namor's increasingly aggressive actions. He's a Skrull and the first to be called out and dealt with. Through that encounter, the team would learn of more agents and dispatch them. A stowaway Phalanx would leave the ship once they arrived back on Earth and begin spreading, building a queen and reproducing quickly (similar to Annihilation Conquest). The story would jump to the future, where Earth had been taken over. The characters would have to flee and find allies like the Inhumans, Guardians, and even Skrulls (if Skrulls enlisted, then the past invasion could be undone easier later on. That's the extent I had planned so far. There would be a key villain behind it, one I created that was looking to upset things in 1993 by manipulating events throughout time to learn from played out scenarios, obtain unearthed items (Serpent Crown) and enlist the strongest allies. I was going for a whole collapsed time sort of approach. The rift would allow for all sorts of mess. Online, key events of 1993 comics would keep PCs busy and allow for fun to be had. Like important roles in Maximum Carnage and X-Cutioner's Song. PCs were to play out mini-quests that affected the overall story through plot holes present. Good times.

Oh and the garbage man would continue to work for every influential NPC, learning magic, tech, and other useful things. Celestial technology, Phalanx virus, and magic like artifacts would have made him a suit fit for Odin.