What was your first superhero character?

Saker · Post by **Saker** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 8:23 pm

I just realized/remembered that Balderson is almost the exact same concept of my very first superhero character. The game system was Champions, 3rd Edition. The adventure supplement was the Blood and Dr. McQuark. It was a long, long time ago.

I think my subconscious has run out of new ideas and has started to recycle.

What was your first superhero character concept? And game system?

cheers

Solarblast · Post by **Solarblast** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:19 pm

I think that my first superhero character was the Juggernaut, a robot with a man's brain. The system was Villains and Vigilantes my first supers game. He was essentially a brick character.

Dragonfly · Post by **Dragonfly** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:29 pm

Solarblast wrote:I think that my first superhero character was the Juggernaut, a robot with a man's brain. The system was Villains and Vigilantes my first supers game. He was essentially a brick character.

My first character was Billy Burrows, A.K.A. The Mole. I made him for the first edition of Champions. He was essentially a mutant with tunneling, earth control, minor super-strength, and a claw attack.

Best,

Dragonfly

Post by **BASHMAN** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:50 pm

Mine was a knock off of Austin Powers. He was supposed to be the ultimate super spy. Sadly after paying a lot of points for a sports car and an ordinary camera he had no points left for any gadgets, etc. this was my first character I made to play with. However my first attempt to make superheroes was also my first attempt at an rpg of any kind.

I was unaware of FASERIP when I was 12 and decided to make my own game I titled "the Marvel Game". Wasn't I creative? The game used the Marvel trading cards for setting up the characters stats and a d20 and just made up the powers. I made the first sheet for it using Spiderman, and added more heroes from there. I remember making the cover with colored pencils and stapling the whole handwritten thing together. I wish I knew what happened to that (I'm sure it got thrown away).

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 10:25 am

My first character written in an official superhero RPG was Hero-for-Hire using Champions, 1st Edition.

Yes, he was a shameless rip-off of Power-Man (down to the outfit, which I faithfully depicted in the character sheet using the outline provided).

Someday when I have the time and the lack of inhibition I'll relate his infamous first adventure.

BeardedDork · Post by **BeardedDork** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:26 am

My first "Super-Hero" character (that I can remember, he may not have actually been the first) was in Abberant, The Mysterious Dr. X, who started out as good as any normal person can possibly be at everything.

The more I think about it, the more I think I probably played some forgettable Marvel Super Heroes character before that. But I tend to run rather than play the supers games with my group.

Bonehead · Post by **Bonehead** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:51 pm

My first super-hero character (and I'm not sure it's right to call it that) was called "The Shaman" for a Cartoon Action Hour game. He was based on Beast Boy from Teen Titans. He was the spiritual leader of his primitive people, and he would shape change into various animals to solve whatever problem was in front of him.

In one game, he took out the BBEG by transforming into a donkey, and kicking out a support pillar for the room they were in. In another, he had pinned a villain, and was in the process of transforming into an elephant to insure that she stayed pinned, when she threw him off of her, and he landed in a tree - as an elephant.

Post by **BASHMAN** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:28 pm

Bonehead wrote:My first super-hero character (and I'm not sure it's right to call it that) was called "The Shaman" for a Cartoon Action Hour game. He was based on Beast Boy from Teen Titans. He was the spiritual leader of his primitive people, and he would shape change into various animals to solve whatever problem was in front of him.

In one game, he took out the BBEG by transforming into a donkey, and kicking out a support pillar for the room they were in. In another, he had pinned a villain, and was in the process of transforming into an elephant to insure that she stayed pinned, when she threw him off of her, and he landed in a tree - as an elephant.

Oh me! Oh my! Betcha'd never see an Elephant Fly!

capmarvel · Post by **capmarvel** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:25 pm

I'm too old to remember my early characters for first edition Champions (man ,we spent waaaaaay more hours making characters than actually playing.)

All my early guys were the same: super strong with flight. Basically the only things I'd want in real life. Once in awhile I'd shake it up and throw in laser vision, etc.

We soon also got into 2nd edition Villains and Vigilanties (met Jeff Dee a few times as he lived around here). This was another game where we made 400 characters (mainly having fun with the random power generation) ...and played maybe 3 of them.

By the way, I'm very impressed that anyone can remember their character to the detail you all are...funny I can remember the people, the clothes, the ugly carpet in the basement, the dice I got for my birthday, even some of the conversations and who was sitting where at the gaming table, but not the characters. Don't know what that means. Probably nothing.

Anyway, I hope everyone has a great Holiday! Unless you're an atheist, in which case I hope you have a great weekend!

urbwar · Post by **urbwar** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:10 pm

I honestly don't recall my first character. The one I remember being the oldest is Brawler, a character I created as a pregen for a game I ran, then ended up playing myself in another game. Basically a mutant with super strength, etc. A former wrestler turned villain, he turned good after joining a group similar to the Suicide Squad. I used to love doing all the various wrestling moves in Champions!

kroh · Post by **kroh** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 5:08 am

My first one was Star Strike in MSH. A darkforce generator. Manifested most of his attack power as Dark Formed shuriken. Now that was a lot of fun.

Still...

Doesn't come close to the game I have to run almost every year for the past three years. "It came from the PITT" an adventure for BASH! I get so many requests every year for that adventure from the local con i go to (and only con i go to thank Grud) that I had to format the notes into something other people could read so they could run it at some of the conventions that they go to.

Crazy!

Regards,
Walt

MrJupiter · Post by **MrJupiter** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:02 am

My first super hero character ever was THE SENTINEL. I made him with 2nd edition Villains & Vigilantes to try out the rules. He was essentially a copy of Marvel Comic's CAPTAIN MAR-VELL with awesome powers stemming from his alien bracelets. I never got to play him though. I never got to play in any supers game.

Well, not until I helped my daughter set up a supers game about 3 years ago for Cynthia Celest Miller's FOUR COLORS game (free). For that game I made N-Forcer. He was a cool teen hero in a very small town who found a space gauntlet device with Green Lantern type powers. His costume was just jeans, bellaclava, and a fabric markered t-shirt with his super name painted on it. We ran the same adventure twice and each time my daughter's villain, Darkvein, kicked my pattootie! I still love N-Forcer.

Tribunus · Post by **Tribunus** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:19 pm

Don't remember his exact name. It was for TSR's Marvel SH RPG and it was the 80's so he was a good ninja. Name was Darkshadow or something like that. He was a classically-trained ninja, but he also carried a H&K MP5 SMG and a "ruby-laser" for tough stuff.

So Iron Age.

Harrigan · Post by **Harrigan** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 4:10 am

Back in the states. Kids tucked in. Just finished wrapping "Santa's" presents. Checked the site... can't resist responding here.

1st character I *played* was for the "Big Blue Book" edition of Champions -- 3rd? Quite a while ago. Like Cauchemar, I usually ran games, so had quite a bevy of characters created for MSH and GURPS Supers (shudder). But when I ran into HERO and created Astounding Man -- that's when I really began focusing on superheroes in gaming.

Morris P. *, his alias was, and he was basically a low-rent Superman clone. Found a meteorite in the countryside that gave him strength, invulnerability & flight, etc. (Though I remember the flight being limited to like 30mph... made flying off after the villains were brought down kind of funny.)

The really amusing bit was that Morris had 8 INT and "Public Identity" as a drawback or whatever Hero was calling it in those days. He was a local news station weatherman... and would often dash off in the middle of a broadcast to change into his Astounding Man getup. Morris had -no idea- everyone in town knew he was AM, so he would go to great pains to conceal his identity when there was really no need. He was *really* dumb. And fun.

Merry Christmas all.

Saker · Post by **Saker** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:37 am

was for the "Big Blue Book" edition of Champions -- 3rd?

3rd was still in booklet form. I think that was 4th edition and published in 1989. still 20+ years ago...

Merry Christmas to all!