Yep. Ye Olde Topic. I got to thinking today while wandering downtown about things that bug me, things I wished were different. For example: superheroes are a bad thing. Most super games make them intrinsically part of the setting - the whole capes, flying people all accepted by the public as normal, and the underwear on the outside of pants issue. The heroes call themselves heroes; the villains do the same (the latter has always baffled me).
So a more serious take would be needed. No tights, no fancy capes (unless you like choking to death in revolving doors), no awed crowds. Just people being people. Hubris tried that, but when the team/hero route too fast, and then kind of imploded in a nicely comics fashion. Aftermath was for a more superhero take on the same setting, and was fun.
What seperates superheroes from other genres and people with powers is the superman idea. The kind of hero who does the good thing because it's the right thing to do. They're needed in a world that needs heroes, that needs people to do what must be done. I think it's necessary, if only to avoid munchkins.
So, a game idea... I was thinking of a world where everyone has/gains superpowers (the notes for it are somewhere on my computer, including pc creation). Instead, do people from another world sent en masse to earth, and try to survive....
I think it could be fun to try, at least. Superhumans, yes. But not heroes, or villains. Just aliens, trying to survive ina foreign world and given the choice of hero or monster....
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