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Secret Force - A Power Rangers Concept

As you can infer by the above, this is one of two RP concepts I'll be trying to GM this Fall Season. I can field questions, but mostly I am testing the waters to see if anyone out here would be interested in this. I generally swing toward private games or games with known players I've engaged with in the past, but this will be one of the attempts I make at a fairly public game with no taken seats.

I've tried to run two games with this concept before but both have stalled out early and I'm hoping third time's the try.

Basically in concept it is a Mighty Morphin' Reboot with a modern flare with me incorporating my own Sentai designs among other features. I am currently looking for people who lean toward certain high school archetypes with a power rangers flare. Typical Red-Blue-Black-Yellow-Pink are the current configurations, though largely if you like a certain color we can shop things around. Ideally three male characters and two female, but that's not fixed either.

The first arc will be what we see as the opening episodes of a season one.

Secret Force - A Power Rangers Concept

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There is a story, on a planet far from the solar system you know where a group of people stood alone against the forces of darkness. A story that begins with Zordon of Eltar.

The story of the Power Rangers.

Granted powers from a separate dimension known as the Morphing Grid, Zordon sought to prevent the forces of the Xalantian Imperium from continuing their conquest of the galaxy. Fascinated by the power he wielded, the empress of evil, Xala, soon found her hunger for something more than material conquest. It would be this desire to access and acquire the grid that made her war against Zordon endless and ravenous in nature. Eventually, Zordon saw all of his friends fall before him and realized that the only way to save the grid was to sacrifice his world in the process.

A bitter irony.

He needed the grid to save his world, but to save the grid he had to allow his world to die.

The Power Grid vanished and so too did the tools to access it. This created a ripple effect, as more factions who sought to dominate the universe came to power and the might of the Xalantian Imperium faded into obscurity. Xala’s fanatics, fervent and loyal, scoured galaxy-after-galaxy in search of what their empress once salivated over. What was once a megalomaniacal fantasy became a devotion, a framing that they could only gain power like they once held when they found and captured the energies of the grid. And for millions of years… the grid has remained quiet.

Until today.

Wow, is there really only one active thread in the Off-Topic Forum?!

It doesn't help that inactive threads get locked after a very short time.

What Are You Listening To?

Do you listen to music while writing?

Sometimes music works to help contextualize my concept, other times it serves as a distraction.

Favorite character you’ve made?

I have a feeling I know how @Lemons would answer this question.

Worlds Collide: A Merged Universe Superhero Roleplay

Car broke down Saturday morning, will have some time to get this first post written I guess.

Do You Have RP Pet Peeves?

Especially when they outright refuse to let another person step up and Co-GM. Had that happen once; GM hadn't been around. I asked about taking over in their stead, they denied, the RP ultimately died.

@IAmTheIsland

Eh, I can see this for fandom RPs, but for people who create original content this is effectively asking to steal someone's prompt and run with it with no consideration to the effort they put in. I can understand being frustrated, but it is completely understandable when people would rather the RP die than someone run with their work.

Worlds Collide: A Merged Universe Superhero Roleplay

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B L A C K C A N A R Y
B L A C K C A N A R Y

^{"For someone so secretive, you sure are incredibly dumb."}

C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y _________________________________________________________ Dinah Laurel Lance _________________________________________________________ 28 | Single _________________________________________________________ Private Investigator | Homo Superior (see: X-Gene Mutation) N O T A B L E A B I L I T I E S & T O O L S N O T A B L E A B I L I T I E S & T O O L S _________________________________________________________ [+] - A B I L I T I E S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Canary Cry Dinah posesses a potent x-gene that allows her to produce a powerful sonic attack capable of damaging, disorienting, and stunning anyone she uses it on through her manipulation of her own vocal cords. ◼ Sonic Resistance / Immunity Dinah is immune to sonic frequencies similar to her Canary Cry and other such things. - T O O L (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Dinah's Motorcycle It's a Honda. ◼ Lockpicking Kit Sometimes you just need to get into places that other people don't want you to. - N O T A B L E S K I L L S & T A L E N T S N O T A B L E S K I L L S & T A L E N T S _________________________________________________________ [+] - S K I L L (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant Dinah is skilled in multiple martial arts and several forms of hand-to-hand combat, including American Boxing, Jiujitsu, Krav Maga, Wing Chun, Aikido, and Taekwondo. She is known to be extremely dangerous when fighting in close quarters. ◼ Investigation Over the years, Dinah has developed a skill for investigating crimes. It has led her to becoming a private detective. ◼ Stealth In her time as a teenager involved with Gotham Street Gangs, Dinah learned to sneak to avoid trouble (or cause it). This includes a developed talent to lockpick doors and safes. ◼ Driving Dinah's history with motorcycles goes back to Gotham street racing. Her preferred method of travel is by motorcycle. - T A L E N T (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Physical Conditioning Dinah was conditioned and trained by Ted Grant and Desmond Lamar as a teenager, grew up in the rough and tumble streets of The Narrows, one of Gotham’s roughest boroughs, and has continued to keep herself in shape following her brief departure from Gotham City. -

T H E S T O R Y S O F A R... T H E S T O R Y S O F A R... ________________________________________________________________________________________ Twenty years ago, Detective Larry Lance was killed in the line of duty. His murder, unsolved, would end up haunting his young daughter’s decisions for the rest of her life. Orphaned and alone, Dinah was subject to the cruelty and negligence of Gotham’s broken foster system. She bounced from home to home with little guidance and an appetite for destruction. There was an anger that followed her and it wasn’t until she found a way to channel that anger when life started to make sense. Two aging fighters gave her hope for a new tomorrow at a derelict gym in The Narrows and eventually things started to click. Dinah took these skills with her away from Gotham for a time and developed a sense for people. When she came back, people she knew from the streets back when she was a teenager needed help and she quickly provided it. Gotham had gotten worse. There was something prowling in the dark, the crime families were getting nervous and sloppy, and in the wake of that something’s crusade, people found themselves getting even more desperate. While the Caped Crusader prowls the shadows, a Bird of Prey looks over the streets. Solving problems the only way she knows how: with her fists. P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) ________________________________________________________________________________________ The goal here is to utilize smaller Gotham City characters to help tell street level stories independent or in collaboration with the Batman player. Given my personal struggles lately, I thought the best thing was to leave me in a spot that is malleable so I am able to participate in a game. Dinah used to run with the street gangs (most likely the Street Demonz or some other insert) in The Narrows and has a lot of connections. These kinds of stories allow me to flesh out corners that maybe are too insignificant normally, and gives Dinah interesting opportunities to get in trouble with things outside of the Falcone/Maroni sides of things. Groups like the Golden Dragons, Jade Tigers, the Five Fingers are given room to develop. The Batman player, obviously, dictates the organized crime situation of Gotham so they might want to give me some notes that give me some guidance. Characters I intend for Black Canary to play off include her mentor Ted Grant, Emily Briggs, Lady Shiva, and others. There is also the case of her father's death, but I have no idea what I am doing with that plot hook at this time.

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Worlds Collide: A Merged Universe Superhero Roleplay

Just to clarify, we are only at the beginning of the dawn of superheroes insofar as everyone has made year one characters so far. My intention wasn't for this to be a year one story. If this is the direction everyone would prefer to move in I'm happy to keep it in mind, but I'm conscious this may get in the way of people writing legacy heroes - Stargirl, The Flash, etc.

@Half Pint

You work with the lore the players provided given the setup, I suppose.