That is... a lot of responses. Is there still room here?

Ok. I was thinking of bringing back a concept I had a while back. The Alchemist can imbue water with special properties like from acidity or "freezes on contact" to accelerated healing, but the process takes too long to be usable on the fly, so they bottle up useful brews and use them like potions or grenades. Also they own a coffee shop.

Otherwise I can think of a less abusable power.

I was considering only being able to imbue common chemical properties, and anything more unique both takes much longer and has to be learned either from prolonged exposure to a similar ability (such as getting buddy buddy with a speedster to learn how to make a potion that increases speed by 50%) or by investing blood from someone with a similar ability (but I understand if that part is a bit too morbid).

I'd like it to be at least a bit superpowery, but I'll consider it.

Alchemist, huh?

So here are my general ideas...

First is a young punk that is actually an extraterrestrial, perhaps a teenage runaway from New Mexico. I'd like to strike a balance between "gribbly space monster" and "psychic invader" as far as his powerset goes, so I worry about him being too powerful/well rounded.

The other is a weird sort of half-vampire interested in dealing with monsters and magic. Not Blade as much as a John Constantine sort of "keep the balance" detective type.

Thoughts?

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I'd personally prefer the first if only because the second is fairly similar to what I'm working on with my own character.

It would honestly be refreshing to see a character with super strength. Not too many people play the 'classic' powers in these games I find.

Interested. :)

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In a flash of originality I want to write a cape that flies.

Essentially, Hawkgirl, except she'll be much cooler (no insane backstory about killing some Egyptian priest with her boyfriend) and have a name that's related to some other bird of prey.

For those of us whom want to use images to represent them, when it comes to costumes for our characters' hero/vigilante personas do we need to try to find original artwork or can we use comic book images? For example: Could someone use an image of the Human Torch to represent their PC who has similar abilities?

Also for my own clarification, the term antagonists in the Supporting Cast section means we can create few super villains for our PCs, yeah?

Related question, I understand that anime art is disallowed but what about western-style comic-esque art?

Related to the related, can one choose to not use an image at all (I just prefer to write descriptions, can provide spark notes version as needed)?

This looks all well and good and I like most of what I see on main page and I've been following since close to post time ... but this has blown up way too big. It gets really uncomfortable trying to squeeze in and keep up with, at current count, as many as 14 people all chomping at the bit. Sorry.