Pitch 2 gets my vote. Definitely a fun and unique option that seems so obvious in hindsight.

I’m gonna vote for pitch one, just to be contrarian to the prevailing consensus.

Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone who voted. It's cool to see the enthusiasm for another comics game still alive in the Guild.

Secondly, it appears that with over twelve votes, the winner is almost unanimously Pitch #2, which I will be drafting up an OOC thread to launch for on Friday. @Hillan has been chosen as my Co-GM.

Thirdly, everyone will get a chance to submit their applications once the thread launches, and remember that every character is contestable - meaning that if you want to apply for somebody already claimed, you have 24 hours to do so when the thread starts.

Thanks again, everyone.

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I think, in the case of Pitch 2, it would have to work on a case-by-case basis... as long as the applicant keeps in mind that this would be a Year One setting. So if someone wanted to apply for Supergirl or Batgirl while their predecessors are just starting to cut their teeth, that'd obviously clash. But if there were a way to play Kara Danvers or Barbara Gordon another way, in a way that makes sense but is also sidestepping the sidekick element, I think that would be viable. Damian Wayne would be trickier since he's Bruce's son.

Overall, my advice is that it'd just be best to submit an app with a back-up plan in mind.

Somebody's bound to ask these questions sooner or later, so I may as well as ask them now.

1. Say Player 1 had an accepted Hal Jordan character sheet. A little later, Player 2 submits a Guy Gardner sheet. While Guy is a legacy character, he isn't normally seen as a sidekick. Would the Guy Gardner sheet approval be totally up to the GMs or would Player 1 also have a say in the character's approval?

2a. What if a player wants to apply for a character in the future? Could Player 1 play as Bruce Wayne's Batman in the present time while Player 2 plays as Terry McGinnis' Batman in the future?
2b. What if a player wants to apply for a character from a different Earth? Could Player 3 play as Barry Allen's Flash on Earth-1 (or Earth-0, Earth Prime, or whatever) while Player 4 plays as Jay Garrick's Flash on Earth-2?

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Somebody's bound to ask these questions sooner or later, so I may as well as ask them now.

1. Say Player 1 had an accepted Hal Jordan character sheet. A little later, Player 2 submits a Guy Gardner sheet. While Guy is a legacy character, he isn't normally seen as a sidekick. Would the Guy Gardner sheet approval be totally up to the GMs or would Player 1 also have a say in the character's approval?

2a. What if a player wants to apply for a character in the future? Could Player 1 play as Bruce Wayne's Batman in the present time while Player 2 plays as Terry McGinnis' Batman in the future?
2b. What if a player wants to apply for a character from a different Earth? Could Player 3 play as Barry Allen's Flash on Earth-1 (or Earth-0, Earth Prime, or whatever) while Player 4 plays as Jay Garrick's Flash on Earth-2?

Not to step on MB's toes or nothing, the way things tend to work in this sort of comic games that he runs;

1. Usually it'd be Player 2's responsibility to go to Player 1 and try to work something out with regards to how to handle the possibility of a shared GL role. This means agreeing about how Lanterns function in this universe, and what degree of involvement Hal and Guy have with each other, if any at all. But, usually, the first one to stake a given corner of the universe gets a final say on its inhabitants. So if they rolled, say, a Hal who is the only Green Lantern, they could veto a Guy concept.

2a and 2b. Barring flashbacks and temporary jaunts to Alternate Universes, I think we broadly try to develop one continuity/timeline. So, everything more or less will occur at around the same time within the same universe.

Hope that makes sense! And ofc maybe I'm talking out of my ass and MB will swing by to tell me I'm wrong.

Only time I've seen us have POVs in another timeline in these games has been in the past. There was a Superherohype game where someone was writing JSA stuff in the 60s, if I recall. But that was also years ago. Mostly we keep to the "present".

Only time I've seen us have POVs in another timeline in these games has been in the past. There was a Superherohype game where someone was writing JSA stuff in the 60s, if I recall. But that was also years ago. Mostly we keep to the "present".

And @Byrd Man's Gotham Central...

MB said OOC is going up Friday. It is Friday.

MB said OOC is going up Friday. It is Friday.

But he didn't say which Friday.

It is Friday.

Rebecca Black sure looks different now.

Number 2 looks like fun. Hope this takes off in any case.

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