/tg/ - Traditional Games

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The Hoplite: An immortal soldier from Ancient Greece. He was cursed by the Greek Pantheon for the horrible atrocities he commited back when he was mortal. Several thousand years to think has shifted his viewpoint, and now he fights against the very sort of evils he used to commit. He is strong and an extremely capable fighter, but his main power is his curse. If he is killed he reanimates with his bronze cuirass and spear

a minute later. It does not matter if his body and equipment are vaporized, he will always be back. He leads a DoHS Strike Team.

The Villians (Again, so far):

Poison Pretend: Less a villian and more a natural disaster. Grown woman with a lolita fetish, she dresses and acts like a little girl. Was responsible for the destruction of old St. Louis. Her main power is the ability to release and control tailored biological nanomachines. She can uses these to create plagues, kill plants, reshape humans, create unthinking, obident slaves, and more. She's used them to modify her body, granting her superhuman strength, endurance, flight, and the physical appearance of a child. Challenge Level: She's fought Zenith before. It was not an easy fight for either of them.

Pyrofang: A Fire Manipulator with a dearth of imagination or initiative. Normally works for mobsters and other supers as muscle against heroes. Doesn't normally get a lot of jail time because he goes out of his way to not hurt civilians, at least once refusing a job when it came out that they were planning something that would lead to massive casualties. Angry that fire powers didn't give him the ticket to easy street he thought they would.

That's when my imagination ran out, /tg/. I'm having a hard time thinking of bad guys (and good guys) who aren't just rehashes of existing superheroes/villians.

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>>216056

I know it probably doesn't need said but feel free to grab my ideas for your own campaigns, /tg/.

What I know about the party so far:

One can summon idealized characters from literature to fight for them. (The examples given: Don Quixote as a mainline fighter and Tom Sawyer when he needed to bluff his opponent)

One can manipulate water, from attacking with jets of it to changing weather patterns and summoning water elementals.

The Medic of the team can create tentacles from their body which can re-shape flesh. By entering it. It's kind of squick, actually, but I was impressed by the originality. The tentacles are also superhumanly strong, durable, and flexible.

>>216084

For the Medic I found a good pic.

>>216098

last pic

>>216055

All of these are from various games, OP, but feel free to use them!

Heroes:

>STRAIGHT-UP G

A hero with gravity control powers from the depths of the hood. A trained boxer, his fists alter the directionality of gravity around them- when he hits a target, it will begin to 'fall' along the same direction as the vector of impact of the punch. He developped his powers in the ring, and now turns them against the corrupt underground of illegal prizefighting, leaving his enemies floating helplessly until the police can recover them.

>PORTFOLIO JONES, the ECONOMANCER FOR HIRE

A famous mercenary hero, Jones frequents the casinos, stock-markets and gambling-houses of the world, letting the power of chance and market forces wash over him. His remarkable ability to alter the flow of cash stems from his ancient Egyptian abacus, a magical tool he inherited from a mysterious ancestor. In combat, he can make enemy weapons suddenly become low-quality, drain their bank accounts, and ensure that anyone who harms the poor or unfortunate find their employment prospects harmed in return.

>TIN SOLDIER

The ghost of a tinsmith from an ancient era, the Tin Soldier inhabits an ambulatory mass of solid tin in the rough shape of a knight in armour, which he can expand by adding tin from his environment. Though his somewhat Victorian morality often comes into conflict with modern ideals, the Soldier is dedicated to protecting the innocent, and can especially be found fighting fires and rescuing people from burning buildings, seemingly drawn to the flames.

>The CONSCRIPT

A military hero with the power to generate two duplicates of himself each time he recieves a serious injury, up to a maximum of 200. Each time a clone is created, it copies any simple equipment the Conscript was wearing or carrying. Since he possesses no other abilities beyond mild skills with firearms, he carries around a battered old Mosin Nagant rifle and bayonet, allowing him to overwhelm enemies with waves of massed firepower.

>The SMOKING JACKET

Harry Holman was an entrepreneur with a penchant for smoking jackets and expensive pornography until an encounter with a mysterious alien machine changed his life forever. The device, a semi-biological space-suit, bonded permanently to his body. Taking the form of a very classy smoking jacket and masking his face with a cloud of strength-enhancing alien chemicals, he takes to the streets, using the metamorphic and stretching nature of the suit to fight crime and protect the ladies of the night.

Villains:

>The BLOCK-BUSTER

Jean-Francois Bombar was a two-bit demolitions engineer in a dead-end job, with nothing but an obsession with Hollywood action movies to brighten his meaningless life. After he was severely wounded in a workplace accident, and the company refused to reimburse him, his explosive mutant powers manifested through sheer rage. Now a living pillar of ever-exploding flame, he has sworn to use his knowledge of cinematic villainy to wreak explosive havoc.

>ACE HIGH and BLIND CHANCE

Domino mask wearing arch-nemeses of Portfolio Jones, Ace High and his #1 gal Blind Chance believe in the power of random chance at all times, and have set about to redistribute the world's wealth in pursuit of that. Sometimes the rob from the rich and give to the poor, other times they convert orphanages to solid gold. Either way, their unpredictable probability-manipulation powers and penchant for dramatics make them wily foes.

>HIGHTOWER, the LIVING WALL

A violent and inhuman vigilante, Hightower takes the form of a beautiful marble statue, armed with a massive crenelated tower shield and a lance with a viciously serrated tip. No one knows where he comes from or why he does what he does, but those unfortunates who earn his wrath are slowly hunted down without mercy, the castle tower symbol of Hightower carved into their battered bodies.

> Anti-Gang

> In a latest anti-gang and anti-drug campaign sponsored by the White House, a group of teenagers from gang-plagued neighborhood were recruited to speak against gangs and drugs. During their speaking tours of public schools of America, these teenagers bonded- literally- after a Gene-bomb explosion in middle of Florida. The gestalt entity's many minds concluded that the best way to stop drugs and gangs from going to children was to take control of the flow of drugs. The Anti-Gang entity targets drug operations around the world, and taking them over for children in AMERICA.

Villains:

>Dr. Gunface

Swiss Scientist who was working on nanomachines that duplicate objects, used them to manufacture guns for arms dealing. One day a deal went south, and he was left for dead by the mob. Used the nanomachines to save himself. Now he is half-gun. His evil schemes involve heisting exotic weaponry to disassemble and copy, like freeze rays and shit. Often says horrible puns like "Beware, Heroes… I have you IN MY SIGHTS."

>Professor Primate

A Nazi neurosurgeon who found out he had stomach cancer after working with radioactive material as part of the super soldier program. Rather than take it sitting down, he stole a gorilla's corpse and transplanted his brain into it.

>MAX

MAX was created during the Cold War by an insane scientist. Not "They stood there and mocked me! THE WHOLE WORLD MOCKED ME!" insane. "Ants live in my skin, government microchips in my cornflakes" insane. Though his assertions on the coming apocalypse seemed to change by the hour ("The shapeshifting reptilian aliens in the houses of power will rise up and bombard the earth with radiation!" "Communist ghosts will possess our machines!" "An army of Wizard Hitler Clones will march against us!"), he was certain the world would be ending very soon. To this end, he created MAX. MAX thought at a then-unmatched speed of 2.5 Megabytes per second. MAX was named because he was, at the time, the absolute maximum of technology. Granted, that was in 1957. He was built to survive any of the delusional scientist's theoretical apocalypses, making him completely indestructible. Of course, the apocalypse never happened, he's convinced any technology built after 1963 is actually a communist or alien war machine that must be destroyed. He speaks in a voice that makes Microsoft Sam sound articulate.

>>216127

>I like this. Now, is the gestalt entity like a mega-kid, with the combined attributes of them all, or a distributed intelligence across the bodies of the original members?

gestalt entity, but inseparable

bumpity bump bump

Bumping with content!

>Ascender/The Elevator-Man

Back in the 1920s Joey Upworth was a humble elevator attendant in a big-city hotel, until a severe electric shock from a broken cable during an elevator accident awakened incredible teleporting powers in him. Donning a uniform modeled after his work clothes, he becomes the Elevator-Man, able to teleporting vertically with perfect precision, and fall great distances without hurting himself. Now his daughter Mira has inherited her father's powers and tole- equipped with a wing-suit and a small jet pack, she is Ascender, protecting the city from above.

>Gold-Bug

Falstaff Poe operated one of the city's most famous pawn shops- he was willing to buy anything, no questions asked, and the city's villains and criminals depend on him for money-laundering. His greed got the better of him, however, when he purchased a golden idol stolen from a New England native burial ground. Now he is the Gold-Bug, an insanely greedy semi human monstrosity with the power to animate gold and precious metals- the more he manipulates and consumes, the more his mind slips away. Some believe that he might genuinely regret his money-grubbing past, but all that has been subsumed by his lust for wealth.

>Flagschiffe

A popular superhero from Europe, Flagschiffe is haunted by the ghost of the German dreadnought Friedrich Wilhelm. When he is near water, he can call upon the mighty weapons of the ancient battleship, firing ghostly shells that either instill their targets with crippling dread, or, if the enemy is a bit tougher, explode with their full power. Though Flagschiffe has a long and storied career, the iron-jawed hero in his long captain's coat has a reputation for being cold and somewhat unfriendly. Realising that he has a PR problem, Flagschiffe has come to a new city to try and reconnect with his public.

>>216055

Sheng Long: A warrior of the eastern martial arts, he immigrated to Kingdom City decades ago to fight crime in order to meet his match. He has a heavy sense of honour, and will only fight opponents who are committing misdeeds, besides sparring with those who can present a challenge. He has the ability of Instant Transmission. Can integrate it into his unique fighting style, teleporting across the battle field and giving constant surprise attacks.

Fuck it, I'll try.

>Goli Otok (translated Naked/Barren Island)

A giant of a man with stone skin, dressed in ex-YU military uniform. Goli Otok was the result of Yugoslavian scientists in creating a super soldier. He was employed as a guard of the political prison camp located on the Goli Otok isle, and took the name as his villain handle. He was notorious for being incredibly loyal to his supervisors, and being incredibly brutal to the inmates - beating them to a bloody pulp with his stone fists.

After the collapse of Yugoslavia, he became a mercenary for hire. If you need raw strength and you're willing to pay extra, he's the guy for you. Doesn't ask questions, follows orders with military discipline, and beats shit senseless. He might do it for free if you're sending him after snitches and moles, as he hates them with a passion still burning from his prison-guard days.

If you manage to catch him outside work (which is rare, since he's hunted as a war criminal and it's hard to relax when you're a 2.5m tall stone giant), he can be found enjoying horrible music, drinking, and chilling around in a knockoff tracksuit. He's always short on cash, as supposedly he sends every cent he makes back home to his mother.

>>216056

oh shit perfect setting for my favorite brain child. I don't have a name for him but the basics are he's some UK citizen just trying to make it with shitty jobs. One day on a lunch break he has a dream of two amorphous creatures made up of every color and then some in a cloud of constantly changing rainbows tell him he's been chosen as Earth's defender. He wakes back up, drooling a bit, and thinks its just a dream until five minutes later when he's teleported to some crisis and learns he has superpowers.

his powers are the crappiest of shoots though. See from now on he teleports to any major problem in Europe (tho any is an exaggeration, it usually has to be pretty big for him to randomly appear and even then its choosey. Nobody really knows what it takes for him to appear not even him). He does not get to choose, he just sometimes appears. Along with that he appears with a set of powers that suits the problem. He doesn't get to know beforehand or even until he tries to use it. Usually his first move is to experiment and then figure out what to do.

he is a living ambulance, going from crisis to crisis without rest. He doesn't need it anymore sure but still. He also doesn't get to choose to be a hero. Drafted into benevolent godhood without constants in his life he's depressed but can't really die. The first month of this new life was hell until the British gov tracked him down and now he mostly roams his hometown with more or less everything paid for by the gov hoping that he might someday lose his powers.

What follows is our list and description of our top threats, the superhumans who have shown how dangerous they are AND proven it. Some can be called serial killers and spree murderers while others are barely human. ALL are considered high-priority threats and Level Ten precautions are NECESSARY.

#1

Real Name: Abigail Westbrook

Nationality: American

Alias: “Albino”

DoB: May 19, 2000

Powers: Infectious Touch-Based Hive Mind. Albino is a weird one. She was born completely white, no irises. Family thought she was albino and she acted like a normal kid, though through the bits of information from her birth we've heard she had migraines, until she was 8. Then her powers manifested. Her powers are nicknamed “Human Zombie Plague” and boil down to mean she can touch someone and fully control them forever, along with changing their body and anything they're wearing completely white. Her "drones" do not feel pain and never tire (they might hunger though, as we've seen instances of them eating each other). The hard to contain is her having the ability to jump to another drone no matter the distance if she dies. The dangerous should be readily apparent.

#2

Real Name: Kyosuke Miura

Nationality: Japanese

Alias: “Man Of One Thousand Demons”

DoB: October 16, 1981

Powers: We currently do not understand how Miura’s powers work. We theorize he has a pocket dimension inside his body that along with storing things can irreversibly control them and their functions. This includes powers. Though his name say one thousand we’ve only had confirmation of six-hundred and twenty-two different power sets. Our knowledge of Kyosuke Miura is vast due to his frequent clashes with local authorities. Kyosuke is the son of a dead figure in the Yakuza criminal underground and as he grew up was in constant trouble with authorities. He was a known quantity in the local school gangs and was probably one of the first “super-villain” to become a powerful criminal leader. From 1997 t0 1999 he led a group called the “Black Chests” (due to the distinctive tattoo’s his members would wear based around Kyosuke’s power making most of his body pitch black). The “Black Chests” were dissolved when during a fight between them and a local superhero team Kyosuke absorbed four of five members. Afterwards GOSPEL sent security agents to deal with him. Nine of eleven were absorbed and he has since fled.

#3

Real Name: Unknown

Nationality: Unknown

Alias: “Redwood”

DoB: Unknown

Powers: Megamorph. Redwood looks like a tree, as some have remarked similar in appearance to an “Ent”, but most professionals believe this is a mental block he put in himself. What is known is he can grow and regress his body with fine control and he himself has properties much like steel but tougher and better all around. The hard to contain part is due to him being able to regrow himself fully from a scrap of his body. The dangerous part is the fact that he believes fully and completely that the only thing that can keep him alive is being watered by fresh blood.

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#4

Real Name: See Below

Nationality: Possibly Canadian; See Below

Alias: “Nightmare”

DoB: See Below

Powers: Dream Manipulation and Close Proximity Hallucinogenic Illusions. The entity known as “Nightmare” has been seen in real life three times. The third time was four months ago in a small french village where “she” drove the town mad with hallucinations. At that time “she” looked to be sixteen. The second was in October 13th, 2013 in Los Angeles where a team of corporate heroes found “her” in a suburban house with a family of four perpetually locked in nightmares. “She” looked to be forty-eight at that time. The first was when “her” powers MAY have manifested. It was November 8th, 2001 in Ottawa, Canada on a small suburb street. The civilians there had been experiencing what our liaison to the Magick Community calls “a haunting”. Upon closer examination by a group of local Mages they found a young girl, possibly seven years old, was the cause of it. All but one Mage then went catatonic as “she” apparently used “her” powers on them. With that information we have three people most likely to be “her” IF “her” first appearance was not an illusion. Either Sally Morn, Angelica Allard, or Elliot Fontaine. Each disappeared quickly after the incident and we’ve yet to find a body for either three along with each being within three weeks of birth of each other. “Her” powers manifest as mental illusions, though we’ve only seen “her” achieve that upon close proximity. More commonly “she” hides somewhere in an area and then uses “her” powers to invade the dreams of others. “She” has shown to be able to cause lasting damage to a person’s body by damaging them in their dreams. Her proximity is unknown.

#5

Real Name: Henry Jacobson

Nationality: American

Alias: “The Bird”

DoB: February 20th, 1993

Powers: Resurrection Based Immortal w/ Possible Enhanced Reflexes The Bird is a complete nihilistic death worshipping scum. He's an ressurection style immortal but we’ve yet to get a scrap of information that tells us HOW and WHERE he resurrects, all we know is it isn’t his body. This wouldn’t be a problem except he’s become more than proficient at killing himself before we have a chance to apprehend him. His modus operandi is that he'll enter a city, spree kill until an arbitrary moment where he’ll leave. Our theories on what causes him to leave are based on our only documented conversation we’ve had with him where he talks obsessively about “lives” and “high scores” much like a video game. He's proficient with a wide range of weapons and cunning to a degree that seems superhuman. If you need to know his name comes from his "law", no kills count till he wears a bird suit.

#6

Real Name: Nikos Zabbat

Nationality: Greek

Alias: “Datamine”

DoB: July 12, 1990

Powers: Passively Absorption of Metadata, Travel Through Circuitry, Short Out and Reprogram Technology. Nikos Zabbat is an untouchable. He is not “dangerous” per se, instead he’s incredibly hard to catch and a massive liability due to his ability to consume information. With his ability to travel through circuitry and possibly radio waves to an extent we can never be sure we’ve caught him, and nearly any modern transport or prison could not contain him. We have a good bit of information about how he was raised, we’ve yet to see if help us in any major way. He is cunning and dangerous, never allow him to be near electronics. DO NOT LET HIM BE IN PROXIMITY WITH ANY ELECTRONICS.

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#7

Real Name: Salvador Sanchez

Nationality: Brazilian

Alias: “Nostradamus”

DoB: Unknown (Age Range: 40-45)

Powers: Probability Manipulation. Though we do not know the extent of his powers we have seen a distinct lack of ability to make large scale changes quickly. His last attack seemed to have been in the working for more than ten years. Taking that knowledge we believe his powers become more powerful the closer the proximity to the subject is. Taking that into consideration a straight fight is not recommended. Due to him being from Brazil and being an orphan from what we can gather information about his early life is vague at best. Be wary of any information not already documented. He avoid physical confrontation and has been known to use “death traps” or as the agents have come to call it “James Bond S***”.

#8

Real Name: Michael Becker

Nationality: American

Alias: “Fenrir”

DoB: September 20, 1987

Powers: Two tiered shapeshifting. Tier 1 is a high threat lupine transformation. Tier 2 is a high threat kaiju transformation. Hard to catch, possible third escape superpower yet to be discovered. First appearance shows that he was probably one Michael Becker, an ex-con and known member of a neo-nazi motorcycle gang called Odin’s Wolves. After the fourth incident with him he apparently split ways with the gang and since then habitually join small-time supervillain groups.

#10

Real Name: Veronica Galley

Nationality: French

Alias: “V”

DoB: August 19, 1986

Powers: Vector Manipulation. Less dangerous than the others only on the basis that she can be talked to and reasoned with V is a high-threat contract killer though he has been spotted less and less in the past four years. Due to her immediate threat to anyone deemed a target she is on this list but she is not an immediate threat. If spotted simply call the FBI and start a lockdown of the area, we have yet to see a feasible escape power of hers.

From my personal world to yours bro

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She appears as a small Filipino girl, typically wearing formal attire. During the night, this illusion breaks, and her true form is revealed: a girl with a corpse-like pallor, burn marks across her body, and tattered clothing. She has made appearances, over the last decades, in many areas across the world: in every case, opposing the interests of the Japanese and the Americans, for whom she possesses a great hatred. Her Gashadokuro (an ironically Japanese monstrosity) has been recorded in many books, and in connection with her; however, they are believed to be separate but allied entities by most, rather than living embodiments of the same catastrophe. Her appearance in Kingdom City, then, is a continuation of this objective: to see all of the people of Japan and the United States suffer. Acting from the shadows, she specifically hunts down other superheroes and supervillains, particularly enjoying chances to send her minions after those with limited powers or abilities. As for her end-game? The complete collapse of the city, devoured by her minion. The only question is: what is she waiting for?

While seeming impossible to defeat, the White Princess has one weakness: Her parents. More specifically, while age has granted her a sharpened mind, her spirit is still tied directly to her moment of death, and she is still that same young girl at heart. She often forms attachments to those who remind her of her parents: Which can mean a lot of things, considering the hazy state of her memories. But perhaps, if the endless cycle of violence cannot defeat her, love can put her to rest.

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The idea behind this was a counter-villain: An enemy who is a threat to the whole city, but quite potentially even more-so to the villains. The goal here was to provide a creepy threat that perfectly represents the darker side of the setting: dark, horribly so, but still capable of being redeemed by the light.

>a major attack on US during the election

>Clinton wins

How the fuck does that work? If that happened Bush Sr. would have been a two term president

Loving this stuff, people. Thanks much. I'll try to keep providing you with my ideas as well.

>Pazima

Laura Blainford is a Kingdom City local with Zulu ancestry. She was a police officer who pulled into a gas station on the same night it was being robbed. A shootout later, and she was caught in a massive fuel explosion, where her powers manifested. She immediately joined the DoHS, and is one of their strongest active roster members. Her codename, Pazima, is the Zulu word meaning 'Lightning and Thunder'.

Among people who follow superhuman activities, Pazima is known as a 'Jackpot'. They are exceedingly rare supers who exhibit a whole suite of powers instead of just one or two. Pazima has superhuman strength, durability, flight, and can control an invisible force that lets her create shields and attack people at a distance. The invisible force manifests accompanied by the sound of thunder.

Pazima is on the Q.R.F. Standing for Quick Reaction Force, the QRF is a team created to 'handle' the supers that regular Agent teams cannot. The QRF has a sort of mystique not unlike current super-elite special forces units around the world. They are only deployed when capture is not an option.

I'll try to write up some more members of the Q.R.F.

>>220698

True…I'll change the major attack to happening in early 1993. Thanks for thinking of that, I hadn't realized at all.

Two things that bug me:

1) Clinton was elected in '92, held office for two terms, and stepped down in 2000. If the game is set in '99, he's not halfway through his second term, he's finishing up. The good news is, if you want, you can have the election looming over the characters' heads, especially with the Totally Not Mutant Registraction Act on the table. I'd recommend checking out Aberrant Worldwide: Phase One by White Wolf. System is held together by gum and gentlemen's agreements, but the story ideas might do ya.

2) Islam has no provision for reincarnation, and is considered blasphemous. Multiply that by about 100 if you're claiming to be Muhammed. Your cult leaders there better be able to back up that claim by surviving a car bomb to the face.

Islamic tradition does state that Muhammed is supposed to return to Earth, but that he will do so physically by descending from the sky. One tradition says this will be in Jerusalem, another says Mecca, so at least two guys could pull the same trick at around the same time.

>>216055

I would advise against making Vladimir Putin a Russian Hitler. However he wouldn't make a bad Napoleon for the heroes to undermine. Villainous, somewhat Bondian, but sympathetic enough to make some players root for him.

>>220975

Actually, I wanted to go the other direction. The Putin in the Kingdom City Universe I wanted to be more a more noble person, trying to help his country succeed. Popular with his people, he is nontheless cold and stern to outsiders.

>>223420

More than half of my time on CoH and CO were in that character creator.

>>223423

I wish the Champions character creator didn't have most options hidden behind a paywall.

>>223420

Oh, yeah.

>Tally Man

Former inner-city courier, parkour enthusiast. Died carrying a sample of alien biological material between the salvage operation that secured it and a biotechnical firm that was set to do an anlysis. His body was used as both fuel and a template for the material, filling up his impact-resistant courier uniform and gaining a significant portion of his memories.

The being that inhabits the suit now works as a super-powered courier. A contract between him and his client is absolute. He will never break contract, never betray his client.

Tally Man has inhuman dexterity and superhuman strength. His form regenerates quickly, fully restoring as long as it has at least 40% mass. Can restore lost mass with any organic or inorganic material at 7 or below on the moh's scale of mineral hardness. Immune to mind-reading/control

A bad guy I was thinking up for an M&M game. Wondering what everyone's thoughts were.

Carl Smith was born with the power to understand any language. Unfortunately Carl is also a massive xenophobe and hates foreign cultures. Lacking any other marketable skills, Carl is unable to find other work he is forced, much to his annoyance, to works as a translators. Carl is a misserable man who's only joy in life is his ability to use his position to remove foreign culture whenever possible.

One day some archeologists uncover a censer (that pun was intended) with writing in an unknown language on it and made of a strange material that can't be damaged. Left without options they are forced to take it to Carl for translation.

When Carl examines the censer he learns that anyone who fills the device with pure spirits and heating it will granted divine power. While the creators of the censer intended the acquisition of pure alcohol an impossible task for anyone who didn't already have divine powers (thus being a key to the powers contained), they did not anticipate the day you could buy pure ethanol pretty easily. Carl, having heard plenty of all the magic artifacts going around and reckoning it's legit, decides to try it. He tells the archeologists he'll be able to translate if it's left with him for a week and, having no other options, they agree.

The vapors from the censer combine poorly with the flame, but Carl emerges from the explosion unharmed but constantly on fire without negative effect (no pain, can still breath ect. but still sets everything on fire). Next to Carl is the censer, which has fused with debree and become an aspergillum. Carl, being the xenophobe he is, takes his new weapon and, uncreativly, calls himself The Mace

Being a xenophobe granted superpowers, his first course of action is naturally to go smash the local museums. Cue the heroes.

>>223632

Or perhaps, instead of being on fire, IS made of fire and can only interact with things other than the mace by burning them.

Being an incorporeal mass of fire makes him the kind of bad guy you can't smash unless your powerset is good at oxygen deprivation.

I know of a character played by a friend of a friend called

"Average Man"

Basically

His superpower is that he turns into the "average person" in the current area.

So if he goes to Serbia he will start squatting and blyat and stuff.

If he goes to Korea he'll be small and squint eyes and eat rice.

It's really cool.

>>216055

>China has gone dark. The Chinese military patrols their borders with an attention near-unheard of since the Cold War. The few people who have gotten out tell tales of camps where women are bred with supers, and horrible genetic experiments take place.

Totally believable and easily the greatest thread facing the world you've dreamed up. Give those people sixteen years and they will roll the whole rest of the world, even with America. Anybody sensible would to work fucking them over now to the point of ignoring any other issue no matter how seemingly pressing.

>>224528

He would be a pretty good spy or infiltrator.

I'll post a lame idea I had in my head for a while, feel free to take it and change it, anything.

>The Painter

A young adult not making anything of his life discovered a strange and alien device buried in his backyard. After examining and experimenting he discovered it was like a paintbrush that secreted its own "paint," but the substance had special world-altering abilities, allowing him to essentially change things by doodling on them. He could paint a line on a road and from it could spring a solid concrete wall, or alternatively it could sink into a deep trench that pierces the sewer mains. If he painted a spiral on something it could start spinning erratically, or open a wormhole in space-time.

With this tool in hand, he vowed to use this opportunity to better himself as a person and contribute to society as a hero. Unfortunately, due to the unwieldy alien technology, he lacks full understanding of the device and how to use it properly, causing unpredictable results in its usage. The device's erratic effects sometimes appear in patterns, suggesting it may possess a mind of its own.

it's kind of a Blue Beetle rip-off