Quote from: The Butcher;806462The Adventurers of Hell should led by Brimstone Shade, who, judging by the name, just has to be a 1990s-style surly, black-trenchcoat-clad, katana-swinging mysterious dark type. With white hair. And eyes that glow with infernal energy when he's angry and/or using his infernal powers.

Maybe they're a cadre of metaphysical mercenaries, hiring themselves out to sorcerers and supernatural beings to raid Hell (and other unsavory spirit worlds) for lost souls or artifacts... though who's to say what price they may exact.

Man, that is SO spot on.

Brimstone Shade struck me as some kind of wicked warlock name, but I'm more comfortable with a Silver Age type of super hero as I didn't read comics from the '90s and later.

Having seen covers from those days, though, don't forget to make him wear a leather jacket over his unnecessary-pouch- and strap-ridden costume. Oh, and have knives sheathed in all sort of places he can't actually reach.

And for that inimitable Rob Liefeld aesthetic, make his fists larger than his head!

Quote from: Matt;806477Brimstone Shade struck me as some kind of wicked warlock name, but I'm more comfortable with a Silver Age type of super hero as I didn't read comics from the '90s and later.

Having seen covers from those days, though, don't forget to make him wear a leather jacket over his unnecessary-pouch- and strap-ridden costume. Oh, and have knives sheathed in all sort of places he can't actually reach.

And for that inimitable Rob Liefeld aesthetic, make his fists larger than his head!

Liefeld=FANTASTIC COSMIC CHEST!

itty bitty feet

Silver Age is my aesthetic, as well, though I've read a lot of compilations since my teenage heydey of 70s comic-book devouring (meaning I just missed the silver age).  My problem is that none of the people who plays supers with me really understands what that's about. Most haven't read any American comics at all. They understand supers via the movies. Sort of depressing, actually, though I do like the movies, in general. But saying, "We're going to run a Lee/Kirby style campaign!" doesn't work with them, unless I want to train them in the use of ream squabbling, ridiculous catch phrases, monologuing and such. Hmmmm...maybe I should consider training them...

I have experienced similar problems. I have a friend who gets it and enjoys the over-the-top ridiculousness of many of those '60s and '70s comics, but usually I end up with players whose characters have no costume unless you count a long coat and they have all those "dark" and "gritty" cliches in their backstories. Whatever happened to "a radioactive [blank] bit me and gave me [blank] powers"? Now it's always cursed swords, hot half-vampire chicks, Satan's stepdaughter, gun-toting B&D-gear vigilantes, etc.

If I could get 4 or 5 regular players who actually like old comic books...!

They'd have to be old farts like me. I always end up GM'ing, but I'm dying to play a character concept called "Whipsmart," a youth whose inherited his fathers tech company. He's a technological wiz, with a pretty big ego in his hero guise (but likely a bit shy as his alter ego, Fletcher Finley). Has the hots for a local reporter. Got into the hero game for the headlines. No real powers, just olympian athletic ability, lotsa smarts, a tricked out whip (can deliver a paralyzing shock; can be whirled to deflect bullets; helps with acrobatic effects), and a big, taunting mouth (a la spidey). His cocky persona has a love-hate relationship with the reporter, while he is generally a bit foppish interacting with her in his civilian guise.

My other character is RAIL-X, a prototype of a prospective Reconnaissance and Infiltration Legion. Marketed to the military as an android, RAIL is actually a normal man kidnapped and mind-wiped by the corporation that created him. RAIL escaped his captors with the help of a technician taken aback by the company's use of people as the base chassis for their new weapon. RAIL is basically encased in a full-body suit infused with self-replicating solar nanites that enhance his physical and mental skills, as well as empower his RAIL guns (which I described earlier).  He has no memory of who he was, but there are clues in his behavior (he is very protective of children, for one thing; he seems to know a great deal about computers). RAIL spends his time doing good, while also trying to stay one step ahead of the corporation that stole his life from him.

Quote from: Matt;806498If I could get 4 or 5 regular players who actually like old comic books...!

I'm going on no sleep, or I'd hit the OP-List like a brick with a haymaker.

On the other hand this bit caught my eye: ME! ME! I almost always GM, and I'm dying to play some supers rather than run them. Mind you my choice in games is limited to the simple: Icons, H&S, Supers, Truth & Justice, and so on

And then there were three... :-)

I don't have any of those games but would be happy to try them.

Anybody in the San Diego metropolitan area?

Quote from: Matt;806570I don't have any of those games but would be happy to try them.

Anybody in the San Diego metropolitan area?

Sadly, no. Texas here. The Black Hole part of it that no force can escape for long...

Or I'd be somewhere more west coast.

However, there is Skype, google hangouts and more to make distance if you are willing only a minor problem of timezone organization.

What superhero games do you have?

Quote from: cranebump;806437Neat!  I'd think Interplanetary Dragon would be awesomely fun to sketch.

And How!

Awesome. Rock on, Tristram.

I surrender to da awesome dragon!

Hey, silverlion, what part of Texas? I'm near Austin.  Of course, I'm moving outa here this summer, headed to PA.

Quote from: Silverlion;806659What superhero games do you have?

For me, it's Supers, Icons and MSH, but have only actually played the first one.
Roll20 works well with hangouts.

Different subject, but been fiddling with MSH conversions to supers, and it just about works. Been converting old MSH modules in prep for a supers thing here.

Quote from: Silverlion;806659What superhero games do you have?

Marvel Super Heroes (Basic & "Advanced")
DC Heroes (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Blood of Heroes with the setting pages removed)
Villains & Vigilantes 2nd
Champions 1st thru 5th
Superworld
Mutants & Masterminds 1st & 2nd
Golden Heroes
Marvel Heroic Roleplay (but dislike pretty much everything about it from art to rules to editing)
Super Squadron
Basic Action Super Heroes

Probably one or two more I'm forgetting

Forgot--I have the BASH rules as well, but never ran them.