Thank you. Superheroes are kind of an odd case with me. I'm not too into the DC or Marvel universes other than for specific characters and even then mostly the TV/animated versions (I was a fan of the Teen Titans series that ran for a while on Cartoon Network, and it was my first introduction to several of the characters who showed up in it).
That said, I find the genre to be a potentially interesting one for role playing games and prose. In a round about way this story descends from a bit of world building I did after getting the Truth & Justice RPG (which I still consider one of the more innovative superhero RPGs out there. So far as I know it's the only one that has game mechanics that exploit/explain how weaker heroes like Spiderman can survive in a world with extremely powerful villains).
I started creating a series of characters I called the, "Fifth String Heroes." Who would for the most part be useless on the battlefield fighting villains, but were nevertheless competent to heroic levels in their own fields. The numbers genius who tracks down villains money laundering schemes. The mad-genius chemist whose obsession with cleaning means she's the one called when alien slime needs to be removed from national monuments in DC. Or the teen who has taken on the name, "The Sitter," having used her powers to become the most sought after babysitter of meta-powered children in North America and beyond.
(Hmm, and this has become big enough I may want to move it to its own post)
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That said, I find the genre to be a potentially interesting one for role playing games and prose. In a round about way this story descends from a bit of world building I did after getting the Truth & Justice RPG (which I still consider one of the more innovative superhero RPGs out there. So far as I know it's the only one that has game mechanics that exploit/explain how weaker heroes like Spiderman can survive in a world with extremely powerful villains).
I started creating a series of characters I called the, "Fifth String Heroes." Who would for the most part be useless on the battlefield fighting villains, but were nevertheless competent to heroic levels in their own fields. The numbers genius who tracks down villains money laundering schemes. The mad-genius chemist whose obsession with cleaning means she's the one called when alien slime needs to be removed from national monuments in DC. Or the teen who has taken on the name, "The Sitter," having used her powers to become the most sought after babysitter of meta-powered children in North America and beyond.
(Hmm, and this has become big enough I may want to move it to its own post)