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  Back in the 80s and 90s, before Wizards of the Coast took over D&D, TSR was a functioning (well, nominally) game company that tried branching out into various non-fantasy RPGs. Some of you might remember, e.g., Star Frontiers or Top Secret. As far as I was concerned, their best game (even more than D&D) was always Marvel Super Heroes. TSR licensed the IP from Marvel back in 1984 and produced a Basic Set version in '84, followed by an Advanced Set in 1986. Each used the same basic system, based on rolling percentile and cross-checking the result on a color-coded chart against your character's rank in an attribute or power. The Basic Set was extremely streamlined and easy to pick up. The Advanced Set added more complexity, but remarkably for a time when simulationist and crunch reigned supreme, still managed to be pretty straightforward and fast-paced (and was definitely less work/math than Champions/Hero System games). That said, the earlier modules were maybe not always that thoughtfully written. You can get a sense of the sort of quality by reading this classic WTF D&D playthrough. I usually did my own scenarios, or heavily modified premade ones, but you know what, I spent way too much money buying some of these the first time around and dammit, I mean to run them. I'm hoping at least some of you are into exploring a pre-Marvel cinema juggernaught/old school RPG world of superheroic action. Two quick notes: 1) This is babby's first CYOA, so don't be surprised if I'm not super smooth running this the first few posts. 2) I will be making rolls behind the scenes, as well as avoiding posting crunchier stuff (like statlines or roll results) for now at least. Our first choice! Which module should we start with? Here are your options for now: A: CAT'S PAW  A team of Canadian super-dudes and super-chicks take on ghosts, hydroelectric bay shenanigans, and a Canuck kaiju, all without government sanction. Largely because they probably have more interesting stuff to worry about. B: LAST RESORT  Iron Man is defeated and captured at the hands of a Boy Scout Troop. The second lamest iteration of the Avengers---the West Coast Avengers, featuring Tigra and Wonder Man---have to crash the Jamboree to sort his poo poo out. C: LONE WOLVES  Future stars of their own Netflix series become the subject of the Most Dangerous game (well, really more like the 80s supervillain version of Punk'd) in the concrete jungle of New York City.  Voting is open till midnight PST Thursday (technically Friday, but you know what I mean, right?)
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The Complicated Voting System Shamelessly copied and pasted from the [CYOA] Master Post. quote:Complicated answer for advanced players: quote:This is how it works: ibntumart fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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for rank preference, or a comma (,) for indifference.
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A. Welcome to Canada
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C - Lone Wolves (The earliest)
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C and welcome to CYOAs 
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C !!
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Alpha Flight, motherfuckers!
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ibntumart posted:The second lamest iteration of the Avengers---the West Coast Avengers I will fight you.
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Quote vote
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C Kraven the hunter! http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=324
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Adventure, EH?
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Let's get ready to shirl!
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A TRUE NORTH STRONG!
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C and replace unknown redhead character with Jessica Jones.
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That redhead is the Black Widow! That was her early 80s look (it's kind of hard to see the boob-spider on the module cover): Also, we have a tie between A and C! Next vote for either takes it.
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Change my vote from B to A
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Canada's premier superhero team it is! Voting is now closed.
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 Cat's Paw it is! That's right, move over impolite and flashy superhero neighbors to the south, it's time to combat evil with Canada's premier superhero team! Alpha Flight was the top tier of Departhment H, the Canadian Ministry of Defence's superhero training and superhuman threat response program. Their first appearance was in a 1979 issue of The Uncanny X-Men, where they showed up to kidnap Wolverine on behalf of the Canadian government and got trounced by Logan's X-Buddies. Their failure was all the more bitter since the government decided to shut down Alpha Flight while the team was getting their butts kicked by Wolvie, Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Banshee (RIP, you magnificent ginger bastard). Alpha Flight's leader, James Hudson AKA Guardian, was allowed to keep his security clearance and run around with his Alpha Flight teammates on an unofficial basis. Also, he's dead now and his grieving wife Heather MacNeil Hudson is one of your unofficial contacts. Also, Wolverine tried to put the moves on while she and her husband were on their honeymoon, but I guess she was no Jean Grey because Wolvie bolted before sealing the deal. So where does that leave Alpha Flight at the beginning of this adventure? They're basically like a typical US superhero group: no official support, but they fight super-crime anyway and generally have the respect---and sometimes unofficial support---of the police and government. A couple of the members also have a mystical/spiritual duty to protect Canada from evil, and the others are just patriots and do-gooders. Except for Puck, he's just looking for adventure while he whiles away his immortality. Vote on the team's current members! Voting ends Saturday at 9 PM PSTYou hosers get to pick five heroes from the list below. I'm experimenting with the complicated voting system, so that means follow the voting format (second post of this thread) and pick five heroes in order of preference. And if that turns out to be too much work, I'll just tally up the votes manually and go with the five highest results. Your choices: A. AURORA  Who is this: Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, twin sister of Northstar, is a schoolteacher. She also suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder and can switch from a polite, mild-mannered persona to a superconfident, aggressive one if she gets hurt. Originally she had the same powers as Northstar, but Sasquatch decided to Superpowers: She can fly extremely fast and has a moderate protective field around her when she does. Her signature power is generating a blinding pulse of light. Additionally, she registers as a normal human and not mutant to anything or anyone that detects mutants. B. MARRINA  Who is this: Marrina Smallwood is actually a Plodex, i.e., an alien monster, but she was raised in Newfoundland as a normal human and she's pretty chill. Superpowers: Fully amphibious and crazy fast swimmer. She's so fast she can create a giant waterspout several miles across when in a sufficiently large body of water. She can secrete a blinding oil from her pores. Also, sometimes she transforms into a psycho alien killer, growing wickedly sharp claws and eager to make people-kebabs with them. C. NORTHSTAR  Who is this: Jean-Paul Beaubier is an Olympic-level skier, mostly due to his shameless use of his superhuman quickness and kinetic control. Kind of a dick and only doing this superhero thing to keep an eye out on his sister (who really should be in therapy rather than fighting bad guys, but meh, even Canada's healthcare system has a gap here and there). Superpowers: He can fly at ridiculously fast speeds, and like his sister, has a protective field around him when flying. Specializes in superhumanly quick flurries of punches. He can generate light like Aurora, but only if he's in close proximity (and she can do it on her own anyway). D. PUCK  Who is this: Born in 1914, Eugene Milton Judd was both a giant of a man and an incredible athlete. He became a mercenary seeking the Black Blade of Baghdad. Upon claiming it, he was attacked by the being known as Black Raazar that possessed the blade. The spirit of Black Raazer lengthened Judd's lifespan, but also caused him great pain and to become much shorter. Superpowers: None. He has a signature fighting move based on the movement of hockey pucks, though, where he cartwheels around and smacks into people. It's surprisingly effective. Also he's an expert bullfighter. E. SASQUATCH  Who is this: Walter Langowski is the Canadian answer to the Hulk. Seriously, Langowski subjected himself to massive gamma radiation so he could be like the Hulk. Instead, he became a giant orange-furred manbeast. Obviously he's a gifted scientist. Obviously his methods are... questionable. Superpowers: Ridiculously strong and tough. He can leap pretty far. Normally he's in full control of his faculties when he transforms, but if he gets angry or hurt, sometimes he flies into a murderous berserker rage. F. SHAMAN  Who is this: An ersatz Canadian version of Dr. Strange. Michael Twoyoungmen was a noted surgeon, but medical science couldn't save his wife, so he had his grandfather teach him his people's ways. He is a member of the Sarcee tribe and is the only First Nations member of the team, by the way (and no, Snowbird doesn't really count). Oh yeah, he also met Snowbird's mom and delivered the infant Snowbird into the world. He uses that fact to get away with lecturing her now and then. Superpowers: A mystical pouch that can pull out whatever crazy poo poo the writer can justify. That has included healing potions, teleportation dust, entangling vines, and so on. Whatever he wants has to fit the pouch's opening, but he can also make miniature items that magically grow to normal size after he pulls them out, so never mind the opening restriction actually. G. SNOWBIRD  Who is this: You really should click the link. In a nutshell, she's the daughter of an Inuit goddess and some guy, and is a guardian of the Great White North.The incarnation of Canada itself really. Her divine mission is to fight against evil mystical beasts, but when she's not doing that, she's fighting other weirdos with Alpha Flight. Despite being an Inuit demigoddess, she is always presented as a tall, pale blonde woman. Superpowers: She can turn into any animal found in the Canadian Arctic. She can also fly and has the postcognitive powers. Oh, and she also has the power of rapidly withering away and dying if she leaves Canada or its coastal waters. H.  Who is this: Brazenly lifted from Comic Vine posted:When Canada becomes "the most important country in the world...in the 1980's," new precautions have to be taken to protect its resources. The Canadian International Security Organization locates two men "of unequaled physical and mental prowess" to be trained as "special 'super' agents." One, Blue-fox, turns out to be a double agent, leaving only Tom Evans, as Captain Canuck, to keep the peace. Superpowers: Alien tech in his suit gives him moderate super-strength, protective energy barrier, and flight. The suit also filters out airborne toxic gases. Also he has stun batons. I gave him the Leadership Talent since he's the Captain of this team, after all. ibntumart fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Jun 27, 2016 |
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Screw this list! We need more patriotic heroes and less american copy! ##vote H: Captain Canuck. Canada flag as his costume. H: The Polka Dot Pirate. She is nuts! H. Red ketchup. He look like arnold schwarzenegger. H. Northguard. Goddamn I don't think that someone can top Captain Canuck in patriotic costume. H. Captain Newfoundland. "A cross between Superman, Dr. Who, and awesome disco beat." Source Edit: fixed source link. Nyaa fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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I meant Marvel characters, but I was admittedly a bit vague in writing up H.
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##vote 1) G; F; E; A; H H = Loki pretending to be a good guy for some reason Barbed Tongues fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Nyaa posted:Screw this list! We need more patriotic heroes and less american copy! 
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ibntumart posted:I meant Marvel characters, but I was admittedly a bit vague in writing up H.
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Nyaa posted:Screw this list! We need more patriotic heroes and less american copy! This looks right.
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##vote 1. A, D, E, F, G
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Nyaa posted:I don't know who is marvel characters, but i know they are true Canadian heroes! Fair enough! For sake of my sanity and limited free time, though, I'm only going to be able to stat up a couple of new heroes...modifying voting options accordingly.
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All of you not voting for Puck are huge disappointments. 1. D; E; H; C; A ##vote 1. D; E; G; F; H My H is Patch, who is definitely not Wolverine.  See? Definitely not Wolverine. Would Wolverine wear a suit? And why would Wolverine need an eyepatch? Edit: Vote changed to reflect my realization that Snowbird and Shaman would be way more fun to cartoonishly roleplay. RandallODim fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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1. B 2. D 3. E 4. G 5. A
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RandallODim posted:My H is Patch, who is definitely not Wolverine. Don't forget his associate. 
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Yesssssssssssssss I will try not to use the fact that I owned several of these modules influence my decisions. It's been decades since I had 'em anyways. ##vote 1. H;D;C;A;F My H option is a character I've always loved for no appreciable reason at all:  Madison Jeffries as Box A guy with the mutant ability to reshape inorganic material by touching it who's also molecularly bonded to a suit of Iron Man-esque power armor. Which is made of inorganic material. Which means he can turn his armor into a spaceship. Or a howitzer. Or a 20-story-tall kaiju-fighting robot. Or even any other drat thing we can think up; those are just examples I recall from Alpha Flight comics.  He's like if Mister Fantastic and a Transformer had a baby, how do you not love this guy?
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D and then four other guys I guess
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