Post by dorkknight23 on Jul 24, 2018 15:36:06 GMT -5
Earth’s Mightiest Heroes have assembled and reassembled time and again to deal with those threats that one superhero could not handle. After a recent conflict with the rogue android Ultron, The Avengers are actively rebuilding the now bombed-out shell of the Avengers Mansion with the assistance of the Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Division (or S.H.I.E.L.D). Their battles may take them to other planets and dimensions just as often as they rage through/above the streets of New York, Atlantis, Wakanda, or Castle Doom, but they always fight for what’s right and to protect those who need avenging. Do you have what it takes to answer the call?
Game Tone
A predominantly combat/adventure-oriented love letter to the people, places, and things of the Marvel Universe, but with ample roleplaying opportunities and quandaries for those who will seek them out (with the bonus LOE/challenge stones that they might entail).
Adapting Existing Characters
To adapt existing characters, simply submit a CAD, including all Equipment and Challenges. I reserve the right to require any abilities, actions, or modifiers be changed as necessary. Either long-serving Avengers (who recently survived a fight with Ultron) or well-known new recruits are acceptable. In terms of recent story developments in the comics themselves, I am willing to take or leave them if they’re relevant or irrelevant to your current concept (although if two or more players have dovetailing characters or concepts I might try to get you working together on coordinating them).
New Characters
45 stones, plus a max 10 in challenges. Up to 22 stones may be saved, either/or towards upgrades to be purchased in-game, and/or towards the SHIELD Clearance modifier (described below). Every character should have a story prepared how they were approached with either Reserve Status (leading to full membership) or straight to full membership (possibly including a past team-up with a current/former Avenger). Characters can be as related to other elements of the universe as you like (whether that means playing a mutant, Inhuman, Eternal, etc. or creating something entirely new wholecloth). No restricted abilities, actions, or modifiers, but anything that seems like overt minmaxing/cheese-for-cheese’s sake will be thoroughly examined and questioned. Dialogue/criticism should be expected over rubber-stamping.
(New characters may also start with a costume offering (+1) Defense for free.)
New Modifier: SHIELD Clearance
SHIELD Clearance can be used in two ways. First, it can act as General Knowledge (with AN substituting for MN) for the purposes of story-relevant SHIELD-supplied intelligence/leads/etc. Second, it can be used as Wealth towards purchasing advanced spygear (including, but not limited to, jetpacks and laser guns), with an effective AN/MN of SHIELD Clearance. Every such item of equipment retained permanently in this way lowers the effective MN by 1. SHIELD Clearance provides a -1 Discount to the Black Ops action.
All characters get an Avengers Communicard as well. Communicards don’t provide any additional abilities, actions, or modifiers on their own, but allow you to stay in touch with each other (on the same planet/in the same dimension/within reason/etc.), and act as tracking devices in case you’re lost or separated from the group. All other equipment must be provided through Wealth or acquired in-game.
I’d like to see a mix of new and existing characters, but have no quotas or standards in that regard, or characters I’m looking for in particular, although I’d like at least one former member among their ranks.
PM me with concepts and CADs, but I'll answer any general questions as well here. No hard submission cut-off date, looking for ~5 players.