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[Again_Dejavu]

Alright, made a little list of what we'd need lorewise to even be close to being ready to start.

[Again_Dejavu]

Gonna wait a couple more days to see if Mr. Baldman will do that lore, if not, I'll try and cobble something together.

[escaped lurker]

Gonna wait a couple more days to see if Mr. Baldman will do that lore, if not, I'll try and cobble something together.

Here, have one of my ideas in the meantime. If you want me to elaborate more on some parts of this possible factions, do say so.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Silver Knights
In response to the '98 "Ability User Observation Act"-Bill – which as a result was never heard by the 105 US Congress – several of said ability users left the protectorate in an disillusioned uproar over the planned law, forming a new group that soon became known as Silver Knights. With one of their founding members having uncomfortably deep ties to the armament industry, they sicked their own lobbyists at the incendiary bill, and have dabbled in politics ever since, thwarting other laws discriminatory to ability users, and even trying to pass those which would have a positive or liberating effect. While they at first acted and portrayed themselves more or less in line with humanitarian views, they have since deteriorated into an industrial conglomerate with chauvinistic hard liners. They are also known to have freed several criminals which were either on the way to the “uber jail”, or about to be sentenced to there – albeit no such claims have been proven until now, or are much likely to. Overall, they tend to keep out of the public eye, are prone to employing tinkers and thinkers in top positions, while simultaneously keeping a sizeable group of more combat oriented ability users on their payroll.

The Silver Knights, while not openly operation in the city, do keep a R&D Lab on the outskirts of it. What-ever they are building and brewing up in there could be quite lucrative to rob, slightly to blatantly illegal for the protectorate to intervene or simply playground / workplace to player characters aligned with this faction.

Since I am unsure if you want a complete overhaul of the universe, or just another timeline and place, I presumed the Protectorate to still function as ability user cops, and the story to take place in the US. Both points wich could easily be ammended, with no real impact on this faction.

[Again_Dejavu]

Gonna wait a couple more days to see if Mr. Baldman will do that lore, if not, I'll try and cobble something together.

Here, have one of my ideas in the meantime. If you want me to elaborate more on some parts of this possible factions, do say so.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Silver Knights
In response to the '98 "Ability User Observation Act"-Bill – which as a result was never heard by the 105 US Congress – several of said ability users left the protectorate in an disillusioned uproar over the planned law, forming a new group that soon became known as Silver Knights. With one of their founding members having uncomfortably deep ties to the armament industry, they sicked their own lobbyists at the incendiary bill, and have dabbled in politics ever since, thwarting other laws discriminatory to ability users, and even trying to pass those which would have a positive or liberating effect. While they at first acted and portrayed themselves more or less in line with humanitarian views, they have since deteriorated into an industrial conglomerate with chauvinistic hard liners. They are also known to have freed several criminals which were either on the way to the “uber jail”, or about to be sentenced to there – albeit no such claims have been proven until now, or are much likely to. Overall, they tend to keep out of the public eye, are prone to employing tinkers and thinkers in top positions, while simultaneously keeping a sizeable group of more combat oriented ability users on their payroll.

The Silver Knights, while not openly operation in the city, do keep a R&D Lab on the outskirts of it. What-ever they are building and brewing up in there could be quite lucrative to rob, slightly to blatantly illegal for the protectorate to intervene or simply playground / workplace to player characters aligned with this faction.

Since I am unsure if you want a complete overhaul of the universe, or just another timeline and place, I presumed the Protectorate to still function as ability user cops, and the story to take place in the US. Both points wich could easily be ammended, with no real impact on this faction.

Thankfully, Baldman responded, so I don't need to run around with my hair on fire anymore. Lore is still going. Thanks!

[kj1225]

Posting to watch

[Again_Dejavu]

Removed my version of the lore cause Harry's is far better and less spoilerific.

[Yourmaster]

I think players should decide their category or archetype and then get a random power from there.

[Harry Baldman]

Uh, theoretically you weren't supposed to show the players that (the hero part, specifically), considering that a lot of it is information they wouldn't have IC.

[kj1225]

My personal preference is players send in what they want to happen and get a best guess on the resulting powers anx an option to keep or change the power.

[Harry Baldman]

I do agree that players shouldn't get to choose their powers, and instead specify what their trigger event was. From there, a suitable power can be extrapolated.

[Again_Dejavu]

Whoops
Removed some spoilery stuff.

[Rolepgeek]

I dunno. I feel like trigger event and power shouldn't necessarily be exactly corresponding. After all, that prevents a lot of powers from coming into play, it feels like, while preventing variety in trigger events as compared to powers. Two people might have trigger event of getting punched really hard in the face, but one might develop Master powers in his outrage, and the other might start kicking ass as a Brute.

[Again_Dejavu]

I dunno. I feel like trigger event and power shouldn't necessarily be exactly corresponding. After all, that prevents a lot of powers from coming into play, it feels like, while preventing variety in trigger events as compared to powers. Two people might have trigger event of getting punched really hard in the face, but one might develop Master powers in his outrage, and the other might start kicking ass as a Brute.

The way I'd describe it is that the powers having some type of connection to the event, but you wouldn't trigger from being punched in the face, it's more about intense emotions.

[Rolepgeek]

Being punched in the face doesn't give you intense emotions?

I know I end up going apeshit on anyone who hits me. I don't deal with pain of that sort well.

[Again_Dejavu]

I'm trying to say it's more of the reaction of anger as you described it, rather than the hit itself that would make you trigger. But that emotion still most likely not be powerful enough for triggering