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Question: What's true of your super-team?

They knew each other before becoming heroes

They have a shared origin

They work for the government

They work outside the government

They are applauded by the general public

They are feared by the general public

They have an advanced training facility

They have a speaceship

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Rick Apprentice Offline Posts: 64 Location: Vegas Joined: Nov 23^rd, 2009 Gender:	What's true of your super-team? Dec 8^th, 2009 at 5:18pm	Print Post
	Let's talk about the way hero groups work in our campaigns. You can vote in the poll and add more comments about the way heroes operate in your game.


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Skydiver Teen Titan Offline Posts: 132 Joined: Apr 19^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: What's true of your super-team? Reply #1 - Dec 8^th, 2009 at 5:27pm	Print Post
	Oops.. I answered the quiz before I should have asked the following question: Do you mean the NPC superhero groups of the campaigns? Or the PC super teams?
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Rick Apprentice Offline Posts: 64 Location: Vegas Joined: Nov 23^rd, 2009 Gender:	Re: What's true of your super-team? Reply #2 - Dec 8^th, 2009 at 5:30pm	Print Post
	Skydiver wrote on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 5:27pm: Oops.. I answered the quiz before I should have asked the following question: Do you mean the NPC superhero groups of the campaigns? Or the PC super teams? I was thinking of the PCs. But the main point of the poll is to get people talking. So if you answered for your NPCs, it's not a problem.


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Hammer Justice Leaguer Offline Stranger in a Stranger Land Posts: 528 Location: McKinney, TX Joined: Aug 17^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: What's true of your super-team? Reply #3 - Dec 9^th, 2009 at 12:10am	Print Post
	I have GM'd several campaigns. In one campaign, I had all of the PC's develop characters independant of each other. They played solo adventures prior to having a group session, had drawings of their characters, and I even wrote short stories about them. It was one of the worst campaigns I ever ran. After the initial adventure, there was nothing to hold them together. They all wanted to go their seperate ways. It was a disaster. They all had cool characters, but they all wanted to be "the" hero. In my current campaign, I am playing with my sons, and they are playing older versions of themselves. There is never any doubt as to whether they'll sacrifice themselves for one another, take a hit for one another, or leave someone behind. I find the group stays together, and is much more cohesive than probably any other group I've seen. They still have arguments, but in the end, they know they are going to stay together.


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Doctor Foom Justice Leaguer Offline Silver Age relic Posts: 752 Joined: May 17^th, 2009	Re: What's true of your super-team? Reply #4 - Dec 9^th, 2009 at 12:38pm	Print Post
	I voted: They work for the government They are applauded by the general public They have an advanced training facility But my holy grail is to run or be a part of a team with a shared origin and/or theme. It happens often enough in the comics: -the Teen Titans: all teen sidekicks -the X-Men: all despised mutants (maybe each gets Predjudice, 1-4 rolls on the Powers table and 1 on the Skills to represent their danger room training? I know, Wolverine doesn't fit.) -the FF: family and friends who knew each other before. (All accidental scientific and roll on Powers table only) -the Inhumans: a family with the background of Hidden Civilization. Roll on Powers table only? -the Elementals: all accidental supernatural, powers themed to the four elements -the Legion of Superheroes: each has alien background, and gets Flight device as one of their powers etc. I see 'shared origin' got three votes. Anyone care to share their stories of shared origins?


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Rick Apprentice Offline Posts: 64 Location: Vegas Joined: Nov 23^rd, 2009 Gender:	Re: What's true of your super-team? Reply #5 - Dec 9^th, 2009 at 1:00pm	Print Post
	My own campaign is dystopian. PCs are good, the world governments are essentially neutral. Players range from super-skilled and device-using (Daredevil, Watchmen) to those with accidental/unwanted mutations (X-Men, Doom Patrol). Most heroes have a personal reason for fighting crime, usually tied into their origin or connections. The police and military do not like heroes, seeing them as a threat to law-and-order, and their own job security. Super heroes who show wreckless violence, destroy property, or disregard the law are "drafted" to work for the government, where they are closely examined, monitored, and forced into service (sometimes deadly service). Some, for example, get forced to work as guards (de facto inmates) to the international undersea prison colony (formerly Atlantis), where super-menaces get dumped/deserted.
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John Galactus Offline The Master Cylinder Posts: 6693 Location: Selden Joined: Apr 11^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: What's true of your super-team? Reply #6 - Dec 9^th, 2009 at 4:57pm	Print Post
	In my world, superpowers have only been in existance for about 2 years. And they were discovered by a scientists studing ancient astronauts. So far only the USA and a few rogues have access to the technology to creat super beings. So the few supereheroes share a common orgion, work for the government and are rock stars.

	I am scary, very, very scary.
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