Greetings! Here I am, typing in this boring night to present you an idea that sprouted in my mind: a roleplay settled in the One-Punch-Man universe filled with heroes and monsters that pop out of nothingness. The overall plot would be that our characters form a group, similar to the Blizzard Group, aspiring to become S-Ranked heroes. That's it. We would defeat monsters, face adversary heroes, all this sort of stuff. The coolest thing is the openmindedness in the One-Punch-Man universe would also be found here! You can be any type of hero, folks. You can be a crime-fighting cacti. You can be a crime-fighting steampunk dog. You can be a crime-fighting cyborg. YOU CAN BE WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT.

More specific details, overall plot, etcetera; well, these are yet to be resolved (I'm sleepy, ay) but I'm thinking about leaving a simple, wide and - most importantly - fun roleplay.

If you're thinking, "Meh. I don't want roleplay a freaking anime, bro", don't think about roleplaying it as an anime; instead, think about a regular superhero roleplay.

FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW ONE PUNCH MAN AND ARE INTERESTED, well go watch the anime fools! FEAR NOT! I will give a brief explanation of the important aspects from the anime that would be used throughout the (planned) roleplay:

- HEROES ORGANIZATION: Mhm hmm. This anime has a hero organization which registers every single hero. It is called Hero Association. It is a corporation that organizes the surveillance and intelligence of all cities in Japan, from A to Z, against threats.

- RANKING: Heroes are ranked into four tiers: C, B, A and S ranks; C being the lower and S the higher. In order to rise from a rank to another, you must be the first positioned in your respective tier.

- MONSTERS: A great variety of monsters tend to appear out of sheer inexistence solemnly to cause havoc. They seldom have a backstory, or a plot (as they tend to be killed in four, five minutes). Therefore, monsters in this roleplay would come of two types - those which are weak and can be controlled by a fellow roleplayer (like the crabman from ep1) or stronger foes, which requires, somewhat, a plot (like the Sea People from eps 8-9).

- THREAT CLASSIFICATION: Needless to say, a monster is a threat. The Heroes Organization classifies into five (four in the anime): Wolf (presents threat to few individuals), Tiger (presents threat to many individuals), Demon (presents threat to a whole city), Dragon (presents threat to more than one city) and God (whole humanity shall bite the dust).

- HEROES: Our characters would begin weak. By weak I don't mean puny, fragile, and so forth. I mean unexperienced, undisciplined. We have amazing potential, but we can't use it quite terrifically currently. Or perhaps we don't, that's up to you. The point is: as a beginner hero, our characters are weak. HOWEVER, our characters (heroes) can be of whatever type your twisted mind desires. Seriously, after Puri-Puri Prisoner I'm accepting ANY TYPE OF HERO AT ALL. (as long it fits in the rules)

- SETTING: You live in a city, from A-Z. You're a regular human who wants applied to become a hero. Based on your abilities, you have a hero name. You are appointed to do stuff, like fighting monsters. You rank up on the hero rank. Then you get home and work. Then you fight monsters again. Yeah. Sounds fun, right? That's just the basics. I didn't get into any... detail... at all. (the details makes everything more clear, ay?)

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I have a character sheet template, which one again, is open to suggestions of improvement.

Name:
Age:
Personality:
Appearance:
Biography:
Mid-Period or Full-Time Hero: (has a job or not)

Hero Name:
Abilities: (boy, I really will have to explain non-knowers-of-OPM how abilities works)
Rank (in the C-tier): (From 390 to 300)
Hero Appearance (if is different from regular appearance):

VOILA! Should this get some love I will began building the prototypes of the actual roleplay.
Forgive any mispelling, grammar mistake, typo, redundancy, or poor vocabulary. Sleepiness is mudering me.

If you are interested or has suggestions (whether or not they are good) or questions (again, whether or not they are good) feel free to question.

I am more than 100% interested <.<
I haven't seen One Punch man though, so I'm going to have to watch that before anything else...

Interested

Interested. I'm currently watching the anime.

I'm interested, but a problem that arises here is that (in the canon) pretty much all of the heroes that aren't S-class are unimpressive even by their own standards. Only a few A-class heroes were actually competent and even capable of taking on "weak" monsters. So that brings up an issue of power-scaling, because C-class heroes won't be any stronger than a normal human being (and B isn't much better).

I'm interested, but a problem that arises here is that (in the canon) pretty much all of the heroes that aren't S-class are unimpressive even by their own standards. Only a few A-class heroes were actually competent and even capable of taking on "weak" monsters. So that brings up an issue of power-scaling, because C-class heroes won't be any stronger than a normal human being (and B isn't much better).

True. My thoughts were that our characters, regardless of their true competency, would all join in the C-rank (similarly to Saitama). Basically, although the characters have great potential and are indeed strong, they begin inexperienced so they really can't achieve their true potential. Nonetheless that's a point I really got to look forward.

I'm also quite happy that four people are interested :D perhaps I should begin creating the OOC, then. Once again, if anyone has suggestions about any mechanics I can use in the roleplay (how monsters shows, how to limit people's strengths, etcetera) or any doubts feel free to speak.

Use a super hero themed roleplay game

Interested.

Use a super hero themed roleplay game

This is my idea, thus why the roleplay is to be settled on OPM universe rather than being based off it.

I'm interested. I've read One Punch Man five times at this point so I'd be up for almost anything OPM related.

d20herosrd.com/home

I like mutants and masterminds for super hero games. It hits that sweet spot of enough mechanics to satisfyingly build what you want without getting too clunky.

The website is basically the core ruleset but I can supply some other stuff like the booklets with powers based on x themes or the gm book which has additional info on antagonists and extra rules.

@Jerkchicken That's a pretty interesting site, perhaps I'll take some mechanics from it. Thank you.

I can help with the rules.

Playing the game itself isn't difficult. Rather the complexity comes with the aspect of building your powers since you'll have to combine various effects.

Although some powers might be easy like flight which is its own entry in the effects list or a kamehameha wave which would be the "Blast" power with an AoE

Kinda hopin' we can keep this simple and fun, honestly.

@Dirty Dan It will. The basic idea (hero RP in OPM) is settled. I just need... well, the rest. :P I'm sure I can get it done by tomorrow, though.

EDIT: I was thinking that the roleplay should begin after the Sea People (today's ep9) arc. This will render the roleplay updated, spoiler-less and accessible for non-knowers of OPM.

Also, instead of everyone beginning as low-class Rank C's, perhaps we could be anywhere from Rank C to B. Just to spice things up; and I have some ideas for a possible plot.

Plus the standards for power-scaling here should be raised severely, assuming of the overpowered monsters in the anime/manga (which apparently can only be defeated by A/S ranked heroes, always...)

Or you could ignore the plot and just keep the elements of Supers in a city with the Hero organization trying to climb the ranks while stuff happens.

I'm beginning to work on the OOC template. It's pretty tough. I need to basically put the whole anime into a simplistic, easily understandable (and not long) OOC. If anyone is interested, the template I'm working at is named 'titulum' at the test forums.

How is it tough?

Since a bunch of the elements is there for the humor caused with the juxtaposition of Saitama's boredom with his vast power and your battle shonen tropes.

With Saitama out of the focus you get what amounts to a less Nascar version of Tiger and Bunny with goofier looking heroes.

How is it tough?

Since a bunch of the elements is there for the humor caused with the juxtaposition of Saitama's boredom with his vast power and your battle shonen tropes.

With Saitama out of the focus you get what amounts to a less Nascar version of Tiger and Bunny with goofier looking heroes.

It is tough because I have to a. find a way to limit characters' powers so they don't become overpowered but at the same moment allow them to be extremely strong and b. try to adapt the OOC so people that are unfamiliar with OPM still understand the overall mechanics and possible ploting.

It's called fiat.

If they bring in something that's suspect you tell them to either fix it or get out