Marvels... A New Universe iCheck

[Omega Man]

Galactus is here. Hovering over New York City in his enormous spacecraft, his herald sees over the completion of his feeding device and deals with any potential threats to the devourer. This universe will be something like the Ultimate Universe mixed in with a little cinematic Marvel U where anything goes. The only characters off limits will be the core Avengers team from the films and the Avengers Assemble cartoon including Capt. America, Ironman, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Hulk, and Falcon. You can recreate an X-Man, take one of the F4 for a spin, skies the limit. Depending on how far fetched the concept is, don't expect everything to be accepted. We're working off of a 2 year timeline similar to the current New52 DC Comics 5 year timeline. Basically the Avengers and heroes in general have come to the attention of media outlets and the world within the last 2 years and this is the first time Galactus has made contact with Earth. Spiderman can be young again, hell he can even be Miles Morales or somebody else entirely. Depending on what characters are accepted into the game, our enemies and goal as a group could vary but to get things going we'll just have the two big enemies and maybe some mechanical drones or something. While I'd be open to accepting new takes on Spiderman and the Punisher [1st or 2nd string heroes], I'd be much more willing to accept changes in the 3rd and 4th stringers that everybody is less familiar with. Black Panther for example could be an 18 year old foreign exchange student from Wakanda, Wolverine could be a 25 year old dishonorably discharge soldier/new student at the Xavier Institute, or Hank Pym could even be stuck in Giant Man mode and unable to shrink back down...

I'm putting this in Casual rather than Tabletop though I am hoping to incorporate a stat system for the battle itself and to give us something to shoot for as far as evolving our characters over time. Those familiar with my stat based games know how to make their own stats, but here's a breakdown of the system. If it makes things easier I've already brainstormed how to do plenty of characters' stats so I can make something for you initially you can edit if you'd like.

STAT Breakdown

The stats for this game will include:

I.Q. - (how strong your characters are mentally, for example Brainiac would have a pretty high I.Q. where a rookie's would be less. Average human/alien would be 2.)

Strength - (1-5 has -1 damage, 6-10 has -2 damage) Average human strength would be set at 2, only characters with heightened or super strength should increase higher! EDIT: However, one could view your strength as the strength of your attacks!

Speed - (1-3 has 3 attacks per post, 4-7 has 4 attacks available, 8-10 has 5 attacks)

Attack - (number of attacks) Each player will have melee attacks that are not included on your attack stat including basic punches and kicks and alien tail swipes or bites. Attack is for things like heat vision, throw, generic super speed attack, etc...

Defense - (number of defense moves, each can be used twice per battle. If your defense is 2 and the battle lasts 4 posts you can use 4 defense moves. If the battle rages on for 7 posts you are still limited to only 4 defensive moves total in that case. Defense can't block a signature attack!)

Health - (IQ+strength+speed+defense)

*Signature moves awarded at Level 3 do double damage. The attack itself should include your powers/abilities. The only defense against a signature attack is a signature defense that can also be a move based on your powers/abilities. Signature Defense is also the only defense you can use to help another player directly in-game from an enemy attack be it a regular attack or signature attack! At the moment you can only have one or the other, Signature Attack or Signature Defense.

Now... that's not a lot of info at all really. As far as stats go, I know once you have 6 points on strength some of you might ask "what's the point of having strength or speed any higher?" and the simple answer is writing limitations. If a character like Superman has 6 strength and a God like Zeus walks by with a strength of 8, in the context of the story Zeus would of course be viewed as stronger. Same thing applies for speed.

Power Class - you earn a stat point/level for every 5 posts in-character.

Level 1 - 16 points - 1-5 posts
Level 2 - 17 points - 6-10 posts
Level 3 - 18 points (plus signature attack or defense!) - 11-15 posts
Level 4 - 19 points - 16-20 posts
Level 5 - 20 points - 21-25 posts
Level 6 - 21 points - 26-30 posts
Level 7 - 22 points - 31-35 posts
Level 8 - 23 points - 36-40 posts
Level 9 - 24 points - 41-45 posts
Level 10 - 25 points 46-50 posts

If the game lasts long enough, and it might, we'll go beyond Level 10 and probably continue on to Level 15. Boss stats will be Level 15 to Level 20 with stats between 30-35 points making a team effort to defeat the enemy a must. To show me you've read/understand most of this, at the top of your CS applications write 'Stan Lee' so I know you've got everything down for the most part.

I'm hoping to go at a stat based game a little differently here so we can get to the good stuff. Just two enemies means we can team up easier, get taken down together, etc. and go right into the fighting. The course of time the initial 'arc' of the game lasts is about 48-72 hours straight within the context of the story. This will help you guys level up quicker and develop your characters further with the stats. Once you're a little more invested, we can go into a broader Marvel universe stat based game and possibly take on Hydra, Doctor Doom, the Wrecking Crew, the mutant Brotherhood, etc... Also, depending on the characters and their time as heroes, I'm gonna change this up a little more than past stat based games and let some players begin with level 2 and level 3 stats. But there will still be noobs stuck with Level 1 stats to begin with...

Here's a skeleton for the Character Sheets themselves, minus the stats...

Name -
Alias -
Age -
Powers -
Weaknesses -
Personality - [3 words or less]
Experience - [anywhere from a few days up to 2 years]
Appearance -
BRIEF Bio -
Key Differences - [how is the character different from the mainstream comics and cartoons/movies?]
Notes -

Accepted Players/Character will be listed below. I'll also post any stat's I've finished as they become available. Galactus and his herald Terrax are finished if anybody would like to see what we're up against...

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Accepted Players/Characters:

Fearless_2814 - Moon Knight
Endrance - Storm
Mattmanganon - Spiderman/Venom
DVAwesome - Mr.Fantastic
Damo - Kate Bishop/Hawkeye II [pre-approved, awaiting CS]

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For anybody that still doesn't get it, this is basically making the RPG more like an actual game rather than a 6 or 7 person fan-fiction. At some point we could even butt heads and battle each other if you'd like!

~KL~

[Omega Man]

Bump... anybody? Remember I don't mind making your initial stats and you can edit them from there....

~KL~

[Omega Man]

Nobody... really? It's nothing too complicated as far as the stats go. Basic addition and subtraction and it only comes into play when we're battling enemies in our posts...

~KL~

[Unknown100]

I understand the need to have people have a level, but I am concerned as it would make this seem a little like a board game.
I really like when people have different power levels, but it's sometimes best when they get to choose to have a lesser hero, not because they started out later or make fewer, but longer posts.
I will keep an eye on this rp, but the stat system does put me off a little bit.

Your opening is good however, and it is clear you have given this a lot of thought, so I will give this some thought too.

[mattmanganon]

My CS

Name - Peter Parker
Alias - The Amazing Spider-Man
Age - 19
Powers -

Spider Symbiote: Peter is currently in possession of a Spider-Symbiote called Venom. It is the source of his powers. Powers including:
- Wall Crawling: Spider-Man has the amazing ability to cling to walls with his bare hands and feet, thanks to his suits ability.
- Superhuman Strength: Has the proportional strength of a spider, allowing him to lift close to 5 tons over his head.
- Superhuman Agility: His body is easily able to contort in ways that would break most peoples spines, he is also able to move fluidly and quickly with precision, with the added ability that he can easily balance almost perfectly on any surface.
- Spider-Senses: His almost magical and precognitive ability to predict when he is in danger. When it starts tingling, this means that he is in immediate danger.
- Spider-Memories: His Spider contains memories of those that wielded the spider before him. It's how he can fight so well, his fighting style is instinctual
- Webspinning: His suit naturally creates webbing from the wrists that he can shoot.
- Frenzy: Can potentially frenzy, where he turns into a large monstrous form. in this form, he is stronger and faster, but is completely out of control. This is what happens if he is in peril grave enough that he might actually be killed. It's a final resort of self preservation by the suit. Escape by any means necessary...

STATS:
I.Q. - 3
Strength - 4
Speed - 5
Attack - 2
Web Attack
Suplex
Defense - 2
Spider-Sense dodge
Web-sling to safety.
Health - 14
Power Level - 1

Weaknesses -

Without his suit on, he is as vulnerable as any other human. His only power without his suit is his Spider-Senses.
Pesticides are deadly to him. a whiff of Raid will send him into anaphylactic shock, whilst anything stronger is potentially fatal.
Ultrasonic frequency sound can disrupt communication between him and the suit, as well as send him into a potential frenzy. They can also be used to force him out of the frenzy. Blasted strongly enough and it can destroy the suit entirely.

Personality - Cocky, Reserved, Intelligent.
Experience - His Spider-Memories grant him almost a millenia of combat experience. Although he hasn't had time to properly integrate it yet, so for the moment, he has about a month of experience.
Appearance -



BRIEF Bio - Peter Parker had a fairly standard childhood, growing up under the care of his Aunt May and Uncle Ben. Although he knew his parents, they were both very busy with their work and he rarely saw them. Maybe one weekend a month... And then one month, they didn't come, and the next month, and the next... Then one day, after school, his Uncle Ben sat him down and told him that his parents weren't coming back again.

As he grew, he latched onto science. He loved the idea of experimenting. For christmas on his 9th birthday, he got a science kit, and after he singed off his eyebrows in his first experiment, he never looked back. He was always last in gym, though, and was bullied a lot by people like Flash Thompson. About a month ago, he went to a nightclub, the first time he had ever tried something like it, there, he met the girl next door, Mary Jane. And for the first time ever, they actually talked like people. Normally, he would just stand in a stunned silence as she talked at him. But now he was talking to her like he would any other person, she eventually left with her friends to go to a party that he, naturally, was NOT invited to, but he didn't care. Walking home, he was on top of the world. Then, as he turned the corner into his street, he saw the multitude of police cars gathered around his house. He was told that there had been a burglary... And his Uncle had been shot dead. He went insane, he charged out into the street, screaming at the top of his lungs. Life had given him one thing he wanted, only to take away something else. It wasn't fair, nothing was fair, he wanted revenge, he wanted it SOOOOO badly... Badly enough.

As he collapsed to his knees in an alleyway, he heard a comforting voice. It asked if he wanted his revenge. He replied yes. He suddenly fell, falling for what seemed like hours. He finally hit the ground harmlessly. He then looked around. All he could see was pitch black, until finally, he saw a table, at the table, an old woman sat in a web-like chair. She explained what she was, a being with no concept of time that had been making champions of justice for the world. She saw that he was a good man that could be even greater if he accepted her gift. She produced for him a bowl of black sludge, and told him to cleanse his sins in the bowl. He dipped his hands in and the sludge began running up his arms and into his eyes.

He awoke face down in the alleyway. He must have passed out and had some crazy nightmare... Someone must have spiked his drink, now to go home and... He then saw his hand... A black fabric covered it, a voice whispered in his ear that he was perfectly safe, but it was time to prove himself worthy of the Spider. It seemed like instinct, he webbed up to the roof, before following a police chase to a warehouse, where he found the burglar that had killed his uncle. He easily subdued the man and looked into his frightened eyes. He heard a voice telling him that this was a test. That his actions would determine if he was worthy of the spider. He wanted to kill the man so very badly. But... He knew that his Uncle wouldn't want it. He dropped the man. He told the spider that he didn't want this power if it would ask him to kill people. He webbed the man up and left him fort he police, before leaving. He jumped out the window and landed in Madame Webs parlour again. She told him that he had passed.

He is now grieving for the loss of Uncle Ben, but takes consolation in the fact that his loss has been the gain of everyone else in new york.
Key Differences - A complete re-imagining that I've had in mind for a while, these are the key differences:

1) Spider-Man was not bitten by a radioactive spider. Instead, he was recruited to become a Spider by Madame Web.
2) Venom is a part of him. It serves as his weapon, the source of his powers, and his mentor.
3) He is not the first Spider-Man. The Spider-Man is a legend that stretches back centuries.

Notes -

Working on stats.

[VerifyinTr1gIDs]

I too am uninterested in the stat system.

Your Marvel idea does give me a good idea for Marvel vs Capcom.

[Omega Man]

Awesome, one or two more players and we should have enough to begin.

~KL~

[mattmanganon]

Added stats, Spidey ok to go, boss-man?

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

Name - Kain
Alias - The Walker
Age - 22 years old
Powers -
Superhuman Strength, magic, Super intelligence, supernatural reflexes and durability, Clairvoyance
Weaknesses - Taking away his Mantle weakens all his powers. His Mantle can only be out of his possession for three days. After three days, it will always return.
Personality - Just, Disciplined, Courageous
Experience - 2 and a half years, not including his origins.
Appearance -
BRIEF Bio - Kain the Wanderer was raised by a very weird but peaceful and wise Cult in the American South West that practiced magical traditions and various different forbidden things, like homosexuality, "open marriage" etcetera. His name, Aaron Joseph Jameson comes from the names Aaron, Joseph and Jacob in the Bible, and he was devout in the Cult. One day he decided to leave the Order of Nod for Agnosticism, after various prophecies of the Order of Nod remained unfulfilled. His father and two brothers attempted to beat him and control him so he would remain in the Order, when he defended himself he beat them all to death in a rage, and accidentally caved in his sister, Mariah's skull, killing her, when she ran into the battle to help her brothers. He discovered the Mantle of Kain when he woke up after his battle, taking it as a sign that he should atone for his murders by becoming an arbiter of justice.

He took the name of Kain and wanders the world helping people and taking the mantle of vigilantism and heroism to atone for his sins. Since he has taken the Mantle of Kain, a mysterious Cloak of blood red garments, he has developed the powers of supernatural manipulation, including the power to control fire, to be supernaturally intelligent, and supernaturally strong and durable. He has unparalleled reflexes and perception, and as an investigator of crimes, his clairvoyance can uncover clues. Although his powers all come from the Mantle, taking the Mantle away would only make him weaker, not powerless, meaning he would still have his powers, just at a weaker state. He was already supernaturally strong from his devotion to Nod before leaving the Cult, even after he left.

Key Differences - [how is the character different from the mainstream comics and cartoons/movies?] There isn't any.
Notes -
He is still Agnostic, but respects beliefs of others, even strange ones that he used to have.

[Omega Man]

^^^ Looking for more reimagined cannon characters. Base him off of Doctor Strange or somebody and he's ok. But complete originals is a no-go...

~KL~

[Omega Man]

Matt - You need to list three attacks and two defense moves and he's good to go!

~KL~

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

Ah, I'm sorry. I don't have an interest in this.

[mattmanganon]

Editted my profile, spidey has his attacks and dodges.

[Omega Man]

^^^ Looks good to me Matt!

~KL~

[Omega Man]

Here's the stats for our first two enemies, assuming this takes off...

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Terrax, Level 15 (w/signature move)

IQ - 4
St - 10
Sp - 8
A - 4 <<< earthquake, meteor shower, axe strike, axe blast - Sig Move - meteor storm
D - 4 <<< meteor shield, deflect, block w/axe, flight
H - 26

* 2nd Strength Class - hits are - 2 damage, signature move takes - 4 damage as it is doubled

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Galactus, Level 20 (w/signature move)

IQ - 5
St - 15
Sp - 10
A - 3 <<< eye beams, giant stomp, cosmic blast
D - 2 <<< invulnerability, absorb attack - Sig Move - Planet drain
H - 32

* 3rd Strength Class - hits are - 3 damage, signature move is a defense and is doubled for + 6 health recovery <<< First time 3rd strength class in one of my stat games. We never got to big bads...

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~KL~

[Metronome]

So where do you stand on OCs?

[Metronome]

Oh, nevermind. I saw Kid's comment from earlier =P

[Omega Man]

So long as you tie them to canons it's no big deal. Like say the Punisher's neighbor decides to wear a red t-shirt with a skull graphic and starts mowing down criminals...

~KL~

[Metronome]

I don't typically like doing that kind of thing. There's only a couple characters that I feel like I know enough about to use like that, and you have both of them off limits =P I really wouldn't mind making an alternate universe Hawkeye.

[Omega Man]

Look up Kate Bishop, she was basically a teen female Hawkeye and used the alias when he was presumed dead and sporting the Ronin alias...

~KL~