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. [hider= STAT Breakdown] [b][i]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][/b][/hider] 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... --- [u]Accepted Players/Characters:[/u] Fearless_2814 - Moon Knight Endrance - Storm Mattmanganon - Spiderman/Venom DVAwesome - Mr.Fantastic Damo - Kate Bishop/Hawkeye II [pre-approved, awaiting CS] --- 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~