Post by MoonHunter on Feb 2, 2005 16:26:09 GMT
Supporting cast, all those other people in your campaign that help round out your super hero world. This is not a thread for characters, real superheroes or real villians, this is for all those other supers and normals that waunder through your world. They may just be "color characters" in the background or they may have subplots associated with them. They can add a great deal to your campaign... after all every metahuman is not motivated to fight crime or powerful enough to be useful. And not every person a meta human might interact with is a meta. That leaves a lot of people to work out. (That is the point of the thread, so we can all share the burden of creating people)
Examples would be MetaHuman rights activists, homeless metahumans (who is invunerable, unable to sleep, and not needing to eat), a monster left over from some mad genius's scheme, the guy in the zoo with the ability to empathically communicate with animals (but is otherwise normal), lawyers who deal with meta crimes, that teenage superfan, a powerful telepath trapped in an insane asylum, and others who populate the background of a meta world.
Characters posted here should be slightly generic, so they can be easily slotted into any game world.
Every Entry should have the following:
a) Name - The title of the post normally
b) Summary/ Blurb/ Tag Line
c) Description - Race/ Gender/ Age and quick description
d) History/ Life/ Explanation - This is a minor character or extra, do not invest too much time into this.
d2) Any Powers if applicable.
e) Roleplay Notes... not always required, but nice to have.
f) Plot Lines easily associated with the character... nice but not required. Link them to any plots posted here.
And if you need definitions...
Minor Character: These are characters that are of minor importance in this chapter of the character's existance. They are either minor villians (important minions, lieutenants, monsters of some note, lawyers), minor allies (supporting characters, non heroic metas, doctors, detectives), or Color characters (the local mayor, Local Mojo Guy, the troll beneith the bridge) The line between Minor Color Characters and Extras is a little fuzzy. It all depends upon the character's presentation to the players.
Extra: These are members of the background that fill the world behind the player characters. They are needed to give versimilitude and life to the game world the players are passing through. Any Extra character would be either a typical character or a nearly typical (just different to stand out slightly) character. The players might have a line or two of dialog with them. If the extra is interesting, there might be more interaction with them, and the extra becomes the springboard for minor subplots in the game.
Examples would be MetaHuman rights activists, homeless metahumans (who is invunerable, unable to sleep, and not needing to eat), a monster left over from some mad genius's scheme, the guy in the zoo with the ability to empathically communicate with animals (but is otherwise normal), lawyers who deal with meta crimes, that teenage superfan, a powerful telepath trapped in an insane asylum, and others who populate the background of a meta world.
Characters posted here should be slightly generic, so they can be easily slotted into any game world.
Every Entry should have the following:
a) Name - The title of the post normally
b) Summary/ Blurb/ Tag Line
c) Description - Race/ Gender/ Age and quick description
d) History/ Life/ Explanation - This is a minor character or extra, do not invest too much time into this.
d2) Any Powers if applicable.
e) Roleplay Notes... not always required, but nice to have.
f) Plot Lines easily associated with the character... nice but not required. Link them to any plots posted here.
And if you need definitions...
Minor Character: These are characters that are of minor importance in this chapter of the character's existance. They are either minor villians (important minions, lieutenants, monsters of some note, lawyers), minor allies (supporting characters, non heroic metas, doctors, detectives), or Color characters (the local mayor, Local Mojo Guy, the troll beneith the bridge) The line between Minor Color Characters and Extras is a little fuzzy. It all depends upon the character's presentation to the players.
Extra: These are members of the background that fill the world behind the player characters. They are needed to give versimilitude and life to the game world the players are passing through. Any Extra character would be either a typical character or a nearly typical (just different to stand out slightly) character. The players might have a line or two of dialog with them. If the extra is interesting, there might be more interaction with them, and the extra becomes the springboard for minor subplots in the game.