Bonus Character Release Vote

[tomasina]

Want some bonus characters that were left on the cutting room floor, never to be included in our Profile Paks? Well, then, have we got the contest for you!

Throughout this project we have had various contests in which the MURPG community has been given a chance to gain access to our character profiles that were chosen to not be included in the book. We know that a lot of you have requested access to these characters, but we do not feel right about publishing something publicly which we have set aside as a prize for the various contests... so we have come up with a way for you to get access to a limited number of the bonus characters:

While the winners of the various contests will still receive the bonus character section in its entirety... we will also be releasing a limited number of the bonus character pages on-line. Which ones you ask? Well, that depends on you... let me explain.

Listed below are all the characters that are included in the bonus character section. Please vote for which characters you want to see released. We'll take up to three votes per person, and the characters who receive the most votes will have their pages released. If there are more than 3 characters that have tied for first position, we will release up to a maximum of 5 pages, with tie winners determined by alphabetical order.

In addition, as a final THANK YOU to all of you who have helped us along the way, we will also be publishing 4 additional characters that were cut from the book and the bonus character pak.

So, how do you vote? Simply go the official Spider-Mans Guide to New York project site using the link below and leave a comment on the approptirate thread (You can have Bonus Characters, too!)to vote! The polls will be open for two weeks only, until May 21! Your winners will then be posted on Memorial Day, May 28th, along with the 4 additional characters mentioned above!

ozbot.typepad.com/spideyguide/

The characters you can vote for are:

Aegis
Basilisk
Bolt
Cardiac
Darkhawk
Eel
Foreigner
Ghost Rider (Dan Ketch)
Hydro-Man
Jackal
Joystick
Molten Man
Puma
Rage
Rocket Racer
Shriek
Silhouette
Swarm
Timeslip
White Dragon

Good luck Everyone!

- The Unofficial Spider-Mans Guide to New York Development Team

[Kaimontfendo]

So uh, where's the list? Other than in the Contest Winner Thread?

[tomasina]

kaimontfendo said:

So uh, where's the list? Other than in the Contest Winner Thread?

Good question... how did I miss that?! I will edit the post to add the bonus characters for whom you can vote.

Thanks,

Tomasina

[Kaimontfendo]

Shriek.
Shriek.
Shriek.

Wait, we have to vote for three DIFFERENT characters. Right? Hmm... This could be more difficult...

Wait! As a previous contest winner, won't I get all of them anyway?

[Beacon]

kaimontfendo said:

Wait! As a previous contest winner, won't I get all of them anyway?

Same question.

Just in case though, I suppose I’ll vote for Puma, Rocket Racer, and Molten Man.

MM is a personal favorite and Puma and RR need to be included if only to round out the Outlaws lineup. Of course, I suppose the same could be said about the Sinister Syndicate’s Hydro-Man (though, lets face it, all you really have to do is change a few things on the Sandman’s CAD and play him as more evil than Sandy) and the Misfits’ Spider-Kid/Steel Spider/Ockto-Kid.

Cardiac and Jackal were both huge in their time so I can certainly see including people like them (or Kaine or the various Roses or Black Tarantula or Fusion or countless others who used to be huge but now aren’t). Foreigner has a similar thing going for him but his stats are bound to come off as more “generic human criminal” since he really depends on good characterization by the GM to be an interesting villain. While neither are particularly important, Joystick (who eventually became more a Thunderbolts character than a Spider-Man one) and Shriek if only because of the relative lack of major female villains in the Spidey-verse. Eel and Swarm* are both great “general Marvel” villains that happen to fight Spidey a fair amount of the time so they’re good picks. Basilisk seems kind of out of left field though.

*Plus, can you honestly think of a better campy comic villain than “Nazi Mad Scientist Made of Bees”? The only ones that I can think of that even come close are Grizzly (“Man in a Bear-Suit”) and the Spot (whose “portable hole” powers and tendency to come back from the dead without explanation put him firmly in “old-school Warner Brothers cartoon” territory).

Given that this guide seems so NW-centric, I can sort of see Darkhawk, Rage, and Silhouette too but Aegis, Bolt, and Timeslip are really minor characters even within that corner of the MU. I similarly wide gap exists between the street-level “Marvel Knights”-types (though not actually part of the MK line) like Spidey’s former “New F4” teammate, Ghost Rider III, and White Dragon (who I only vaguely remember as “that guy that Spider-Man and the original White Tiger fought” that one time).

[tomasina]

kaimontfendo said:

Wait! As a previous contest winner, won't I get all of them anyway?

Yes, the winners will get all the characters.

Tomasina

[Super Ryan]

Puma
Cardiac
DarkHawk

Definetly my choices

[tomasina]

ryan973 said:

Puma
Cardiac
DarkHawk
Definetly my choices

Make sure to make your vote at the official project site so that they will be counted.

Tomasina

[tomasina]

If you have won a contest, we would ask you not to vote at the official site for which characters should be released as you will already recieve all the characters.

Thanks,

Tomasina