GM IN NEED!!! I have GAMER'S BLOCK!!!

[dqtest3]

I've got a rp group together, and we've been playing scenarios that I've come up with (story lines tend to run along the timeline and events from previous Marvel movies as well as some original comic book inspiration). They seem to like them, but I need more ideas - especially cause next semester I'm adding a time traveling character. So I need some good time travel / space travel scenarios too. I've got one with the JFK assassination (that one's kinda cool), but I don't want all my games to have political elements in them necessarily. Any ideas? I've got gamer's block!!!

Team Roster

"Kat" and "Panic" - genetically created project. idea was to duplicate the Super Soldier serum. Panic, developed athletic stats but also strange mental powers. Kat was the "perfected" product, and has stats similar to Cpt. America (but no other additional side affects)

"Virus" - Designed by Tony Stark. Banner and Stark begin experimenting with some of the residual energy and radiation left from the Tesseract's use. Stark decides to try implementing it into a suit, and the suit gains AI through the Tesseract's control, and it escapes Earth to Asgard to "free the Tesseract". Long story short, he's defeated, the Tesseract seemingly releases it's hold, and the suit retains it's own AI.

"Vex" - Different version of Zatanna. Finds out that she is related to Leonardo DaVinci's bloodline (who was not only a scientist, but secretly and novice practitioner of the magical arts). Finds some of DaVinci's notes and reads them allowed, only to discover that the notes are part of a spell book and she has inherited these powers. Goes on to be professional magician and tours doing shows. Has recently joined the group.

Well rounded group. What can I do with it that would be interesting and action packed? P.S. I've already used some of the premade games in the back of the books too.

[Dionon]

What about an adventure where they have to travel back in time to save their loved ones from a time travelling deadly enemy?

Or an adventure where they have to travel to the world before humankind existed and put right something that some errant time traveller did wrong?

Or an adventure where they realize that they have gone back in time in the future, and to keep the timeline intact, have to go back in time on schedule on a suicidal mission that they don't know if they survived the first time?

[lambgela]

im feeling a lil Doctor Who from you Dionon :3

[dorkknight23]

First off, welcome to the boards!

What I do sometimes if I'm feeling blocked for story ideas (either PBP here or at the tabletop although not with Marvel) is bring back an element from an earlier adventure and try and reuse it in a different way.

(It also gives the players a sense you have some overarcing story in mind and are not just making shit up as you go along, which is an illusion I like to keep up.)

So, okay, as an example, since you said you used some of the premade adventures, I'm going to use the MURPG core book premade adventure 'We Live Here Too!' as a starting point... (which I admit I have probably not read in 5 years...) I am immediately drawn to the The Duke as an NPC, I'm assuming your PCs left him alive at least (if they ran through this adventure at all.) After the Brotherhood fought their way through Club Noir with your PC's, Mystique went back and offered The Duke a position in the Brotherhood and he accepted.

Now, The Duke comes to the PCs because he's afraid of who else to turn to. Magneto has kicked him out of the Brotherhood and wants him dead, and actually put a bounty out for his horned head being sent to him on a silver platter. Now every crazy costumed creep in Manhattan wants to cash in (round up every rejecty villain you can find in the books and the Spider-Man Guide and have them mob the PCs en masse maybe, or maybe they interrupt such a mob on a rooftop while on patrol or something?!,) and, worse yet, he was supposed to be part of Magneto's attack on the United Nations talk on Mutant Rights tomorrow (where they're unveiling the newest model of Sentinels.)

Then Magneto implants the Sentinels with a virus that causes them to misread all humans as mutants, so they have to fight off rampaging Sentinels AND the Brotherhood!

[Dionon]

Aug 22, 2013 0:53:48 GMT -5 lambgela said:

im feeling a lil Doctor Who from you Dionon :3

Hehe, well Time Travel stories were asked for, and nobody does it better than Doctor Who

[Deleted]

I was always partial to the Red Dwarf story about how Lister was found under the pool table as a baby.. he put himself there! Perhaps you can create something similar with your time traveler character that has them cause their own origin?

[dqtest3]

That's a great idea with Duke - very strong comic book feel and makes sense AND I could have alot of fun introducing so many villains (and my gamers would have fun too of course). lol Some time travel/space ideas would be helpful too, but a few more like these would be great - gotta finish this story line before I start another. In the game previous to the one they're on, I also introduced them to Iron Man, Green Goblin, and a few members of SHIELD - Dynamic Man (one of my custom characters) and Colonel Nick Fury (of course). Any ideas that might use them? In the end they'll have to stop a plot by Magneto and the Brotherhood, so I really like that one scenerio - could really work. Also... I'm ashamed to say I'm not familiar with "The Red Dwarf" story. :#) gimme a quick rundown? Thanks again you guys!

[lambgela]

Aug 22, 2013 11:18:01 GMT -5 Dionon said:

Aug 22, 2013 0:53:48 GMT -5 lambgela said:

im feeling a lil Doctor Who from you Dionon :3

Hehe, well Time Travel stories were asked for, and nobody does it better than Doctor Who

this.. it is true :3

[oan2814]

What I do when I get blocke is choose a movie and use its promise. For instance, town has people come back every so often and takes what the need and heroes are asked for help (Magnificent 7). A psychic puts some information in a heros mind. The hero doesn't know it's there, but the villains do so they come to extract it (Casablanca). There are more ideas, but you get what I'm putting down.