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Welcome to the Redeemer Corps, a group of individuals from across space and time who were "villains" in their past lives before they were cut down by whatever group of young, bold adventurers finally got them. Inspired by Megamind and Suicide Squad, those villains are now brought back to live through the Nexus to fight off the Abyss that seeks to consume everything.

The main twist of the RP is that while designing your characters, you are also designing the villain they used to be. While the Nexus was able to bring you back from your bodies, the Abyss was able to bring you back from your soul, leaving two entities of the same being. This also means you are now weaker than the villain form you once were. Of course, this could also have come with a personality shift if you want to play that aspect up. Character creation will first start with you creating your character as a villain (the version the Abyss brought back) and then what they are like post-redemption (the version you will be playing as).



I hope to have some interesting character interactions and set pieces as well as looking what kind of characters come up with. I myself will not be making and playing a singular character but instead acting as more of a traditional DnD GM controlling the world and NPCs. If this gets enough traction, I'll throw up a character sheet, rules and other fun stuff.

TL;DR - Suicide Squad meets Megamind villain-turned-hero story. You got brought back to life as a nominal good guy but are weaker than when you were at the height of your power. Also the Abyss that wants to destroy and eat the multiverse also cloned you but at the height of your power. You get to fight a stronger version of yourself!

I’m interested!

@sassy1085 Awesome! Have any ideas for a character?

@ClocktowerEchos
It a character from a other roleplay, she is a evil hacker

Potentially interested.

@ClocktowerEchos Interesting idea. 2 questions that immediately come to mind:
1) Sci-Fi setting? Yes or no?
2) Canon setting? Yes or no?

Potentially interested...

My character idea is basically my take on male Poison Ivy.

@ClocktowerEchos Interesting idea. 2 questions that immediately come to mind:
1) Sci-Fi setting? Yes or no?
2) Canon setting? Yes or no?

Its a nebulous multiverse setting. You can have your notSauron fantasy dark lord along side a space pirate king.
Also I prefer not to use characters from pre-established settings if possible, come up with something unique!

@ClocktowerEchos Cool, i've got some idea's, just curious which pile to draw from.

Interested! Might have an illusion-weaver in the pocket. Question, are there any upper limits to the scale and extent of our villains' powers?

Edit: For example, no instakill, no immortality. Self regeneration unless decapitated. Teleportation limited by sight and memory. Etc., etc.

Interested! Might have an illusion-weaver in the pocket. Question, are there any upper limits to the scale and extent of our villains' powers?

Edit: For example, no instakill, no immortality. Self regeneration unless decapitated. Teleportation limited by sight and memory. Etc., etc.

I'm not going to put any hard limits on villain power but try not to go too insane. Remember, don't put down anything you wouldn't want to fight. If you put instakill as a pre-redemption power there's a decent chance some version of that will come into play.

As for everyone else, I think this is good enough to get started on some actual stuff now. I'll get to posting that character guide I was talking about, then an OOC.

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I'm not going to put any hard limits on villain power but try not to go too insane. Remember, don't put down anything you wouldn't want to fight. If you put instakill as a pre-redemption power there's a decent chance some version of that will come into play.

As for everyone else, I think this is good enough to get started on some actual stuff now. I'll get to posting that character guide I was talking about, then an OOC.

Right, use commonsense haha got it. Had to ask. Cool, looking forward to seeing the OOC.

Is it possible to somehow shortchange the Abyss? Like by weakening or removing powers before dying in order to keep the clone from using them while the original could potentially regain them over time?

Is it possible to somehow shortchange the Abyss? Like by weakening or removing powers before dying in order to keep the clone from using them while the original could potentially regain them over time?

I should have made this clear that you aren't stuck under powered. The Abyssal version of you starts at like 100 while the Redeemer version starts at like 50 or 70 or whatever. You start lower but can go up.

As for shortchanging the Abyss, no. It takes you at your height and uses that as its puppet.

Some thoughts:

• I highly recommend watching some of Overly Sarcastic Production's videos on tropes about villains and generally things on how to write a good villain.
• I would try to avoid having "super intelligence" a la evil Sherlock be one of your abilities unless you want to do a LOT of OOC talking with me to set it up so your character actually shows it off.
• Beyond the evil dark lord, there's things like "magnificent bastard", "honorable/professional foe", "well intentioned extremist" and other tropes to work off of.
• Remember, the difference between a villain and a supervillain is PRESENTATION. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*✲ﾟ*｡⋆
• See this as well "making two character sheets" and more "making one and then tweaking it".

If there's anything else, I'll add it when I wake up. Questions and comments, feel free to ask. I might make a more fancy formatting guide, but this is the information you should have at any rate.

This sounds schmaltzy, I could get into it.

Most of my characters are morally unscrupulous so I could easily adapt one of them to being a serial killer/artifact hoarder/religious fanatic, etc.
Def interested!

Im very new to this but also interested.

@ClocktowerEchos Would it be acceptable to make the Apex and Redeemed characters have, blow for blow, the same powers, with the main difference being that the Apex has access to far more resources that makes his powers work.

Pretty much, the idea that i have is based off a villain i did in an old Starfinder campaign i did. And before anyone says it, yes i realize this hits an alarmingly similar number of points with Stargate, but i created this guy with my only knowledge of the Stargate franchise being from having watched the original film a couple of times with the latest having been a decade previously. This guy was actually more based on the Vorlons from B5 and a few awesome looking Sci-Fi Egypt pics i found:

Essentially, the gods of the many religions on Earth are highly evolved aliens with each religion being represented by its own galactic nation. In this version, each God is one of the "First Ones" that walked the universe. So, the Egyptian Nations is the "Empire of the Eternal Sun" the Norse are the "Nine Realm Kingdoms" the Greek nation is the "Grand Pantheon Alliance", the Japanese are the "Great Kami Imperium" etc.

So, the villain i wanted to play was a corrupt version of Ra. He has a number of funky powers, but one of his main ones is his digitized immortality. Now, being a god, he's pretty hard to kill, but when you're also fighting other gods, the field is relatively even and he can be killed. Essentially, he has perfected a form of digitizing his consciousness, meaning that he can essentially back up his own brain and powers into vast computer banks that take the form of a Pyramid. That way, should he ever be killed, he can just download his brain into a new human host, which is then forcably evolved into having the same powers again. He can also download his brain into a giant mech body for combat and intimidation tactics. He also has his vast army of sci-fi soldiers, technomancers and Space-Druids.

Essentially, Redeemer Ra would have almost exactly the same powers as Apex Ra, but without access to his vast armies/fleets, his back-up data-banks (In the event of his death) and his mech-bodies. Meaning that Apex Ra still holds a massive advantage over him. If they fight and Apex dies, big whoop, he'll be back soon, Redeemer dies, he's gone for good.

@mattmanganon Very Necron. I'd say keep Redeemer Ra slightly weaker just so he doesn't solo everything up to an actual Apex "boss fight". I trust you enough that I'm not going to say nerf him into the ground, but he shouldn't be able to one punch man someone else who isn't a mook. I can see a minion vs friend/ally thing which is always fun.