Here's what my gaming group has worked out for our new V&V adventures.

1. The hero group is going to be called the New Centurions ... or maybe just the Centurions for short. The name has a double meaning because we are only using adventures that were published in the 21st century ... including those that were written in the 1980s but only recently saw the light of day.

2. In the campaign universe, by and large the recognizable heroes and villains from the 1980s V and V products were around during that time period with some possible exceptions. But everyone either retired, died, lost their powers, or ended up in prison at Apocalypse Island. Other than the fact that the Island of Dr. Apocalypse is now an international super-prison, the details about what happened 25+ years ago is not important in the campaign.

3. Players are not playing themselves. Instead they are randomly generating PCs using the second edition rules ... WITH THESE EXCEPTIONS.

A. Everyone randomly rolls up 2 heroes.

B. The player chooses which hero is joins the frontline team of the New Centurions.

C. The character who a player discards becomes a member of the reserve/substitute/trainee/backup team that does not go on adventures because they are either too weak or for personal/professional reasons are not available for active duty.

D. If a player's main hero suffers a battle injury or other predicament that pulls that character out of commission, the player can use the reserve/backup hero instead.

E. If a player's main hero actually dies .... dum, dum, dum ... then the player rolls up a new hero and decides whether than new character joins the Centurions or if the newly rolled character joins the substitute team -- and the substitute member gets promoted into the Centurions.

F. As you can see, it is possible for a substitute hero to stay out of the spotlight forever.

I agree.

Great ideas, Tay.  Looking forward to hearing more about them! 

Yeah, when you get a lot of powers it almost always helps to supplement them with Skills.  Brings the BCs (stats) up to solid levels, and sometimes helps out with other nifty things (H. Defense to keep on from being hit, H. Expertise to aid in attacks, etc.).

That's a pretty accurate assessment.  There's some regular folks that are armed with fire-projecting equipment and some other (typical) Intercrime forces, like Garrison and Power Infantry types.

You also get some stats (and counters) for some others in Intercrime, though they're not technically part of the adventure proper (they could be used later).

a 500 million dollar circus? good carnies? I dunno lol.

Nice use of backgrounds, Tay!   

Bill, perhaps it's like students entering law school. They don't all necessarily start out evil. The good is just drummed out of them over time.

Picked up the PDF for Omni-Primus, the villain who appeared on the 1982 rulebook and whose powers were released relatively recently.

With his time-travel powers, I'm going to keep him as a surprise villain who could appear at any point (i.e. if a gaming session ends early and we have spare time).

Like Intercrime, he's someone who some people have been waiting 30 years to fight--so the payoff will be good no matter what.

now i dont know about anyone else, but i really wanna know about the heroes people decided NOT to use 1st.

Sounds like fun. I must redouble my efforts to get a game going.

i suggest sitting down as a group and everyone rolls up a supervillain simultaneously.  in addition to providing you as gm with a steady source of villains, ive found my players enthusiastically try to tie villains into existing campaign details.

either way tho: what can you tell us about the primary PCs?

silver agent? like astro city?

@Bill and Majestic:

The core six heroes from above actually all have 4-6 powers -- when randomly generated. They just rolled some of those powers on the skills table. Each of them has 1 or 2 heightened abilities as a result. I left them out of the write-ups above. All the core members have at least 10 Hit Points as a result.

The "substitute" members only have 1-2 powers each (with one exception). That's how many powers they randomly rolled -- and why those were the characters the PCs chose to drop as they thought those characters might be too weak. I will post more about the substitute members soon -- as we are getting more details about them settled.

... what on Earth is the benefit of double Stretching? and id hate to see what powers some of these people DROPPED.

Here's an idea that I have "on reserve," so to speak. I'm thinking of having a villain akin to the Super-Adaptoid from Marvel Comics 1960s-1980s absorb all of the powers of the Substitute Centurions and then fight the core team.

The end result will be an evil Robot with powers that include Heightened Strength, Wings, Invulnerability, Stretching, D and D thieving abilities, Emotion Control (friendship), and a Vulnerability to fire.

can kelpie function normally out of water in horse form?