DC Universe: War of the Gods

[MrDidact]

Here it finally is, the OOC. Great cracking guys.

If you know anyone who might be interested in playing, feel free to spread the word.

[MrDidact]

@Nightrunner@Chaotic Chao Are you guys still interested in playing?

Also, could always use more players so anyone feel free to jump in.

[Chao]

@MrDidact Yep.

[Enarr]

@Nightrunner@Chaotic Chao Are you guys still interested in playing?

Also, could always use more players so anyone feel free to jump in.

@MrDidact

Yessir. Just taking some time to get my sheet right.

[MrDidact]

@Chaotic Chao Still wanting to play Roy?

@Nightrunner No rush, take your time.

[Chao]

@MrDidact Yeah I'll play Roy. So, how old would I need to make Roy if this is about 30 years in the future. Like 46 maybe?

[MrDidact]

@Chaotic Chao Let's say that the public awareness of superheroes started in 2016. The year is 2040, and Green Grenade has made Ollie just over 50, so Roy can be anywhere from 30 to 40 as his former sidekick I would think.

His daughter Lian would be somewhere in her teen or young adult years also.

[Hylozoist]

Vertigo

@MrDidact

The RP also runs on the idea that all Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales are true to some extent.

@MrDidact

So, um, hey, would it be okay to play something from the Fables series..? Seeing as I finally got around to reading the last dozen or so comics in the main series, I'm feeling all inspired and what-not.

[MrDidact]

@Hylozoist Oh I haven't finished the series yet, better finish it myself.

But yeah, the Fables series would definitely be fair game for inspiration and characters. Now the actual continuity and events of the series would probably be a lot different since they would now exist in the same world as superheroes and aliens. Who were you thinking of playing? Depending on the character they might be someone who could already exist in the mythology of the DCU without having to be a literal fable brought to life.

Like Totenkinder could be a witch from the mortal world and Bigby could be an actual werewolf from Earth.

[Hylozoist]

Oh I haven't finished the series yet, better finish it myself.

@MrDidact

You should! Although I've yet to tackle the various spin-off series, so there's that to look forward to. I'll not spoil anything! As for who I want to play, if it wasn't an OC, it'd be Brock "Stinky" Blueheart. He's bloody awesome, and he's already got a super-hero name courtest of the rather silly supers mini-arc-series-thingy.

[Chao]

@MrDidact I'd say Roy would be around possibly 32 - 34 around this.

[MrDidact]

@Hylozoist Well if you can make Stinky work as an associate of the Justice League, I say go for it. His personal history would probably have to be tailored a bit, because a lot of the comic canon probably wouldn't have happened exactly the same. We can work on establishing a new continuity for all the Fables characters though.

I think the series started off on a strong premise but it kind of got off the rails for me further down. It'd be interesting to see how Fabletown would have to be tailored to fit in the main universe though.

The DCU already has magic and monsters of all kinds, so the "stories come to life" aspect might only apply to some characters. There's even a race of people called Homo Magi, that are humans born with magical abilities, and I could see a lot of the Human fable characters fitting in that category.

@Chaotic Chao Sounds reasonable to me, should be interesting to see how he bounces off of Oliver.

[Hylozoist]

I think the series started off on a strong premise but it kind of got off the rails for me further down. It'd be interesting to see how Fabletown would have to be tailored to fit in the main universe though.

@MrDidact

I agree on the strong-premise-but-went-off-the-rails bit; it sort of peaked (for me, at least) with the end of the Adversary stuff (I'm trying to keep it vague, so as to avoid spoilers, just in case!). The stuff that followed became hit and miss, though there's still some really nice bits in there. I've got my fingers crossed that the spin-off-ish series are closer in style to the earlier ones.

Anyway, before I get lost in trying to work out when, exactly, the series started to lose it's way, I'll go away and think of how one might go about fitting Brock in. As for how it'd fit into the main universe - it's already established that there are many worlds, and that stories / myths / legends told in the Mundy world of Fables tend to be reflections of these worlds. In the Super Team bit, they do try to tap into the power of comics, and so it doesn't seem like such a stretch that, from the perspective of Fables, there exists some comic book inspired world populated by super heroes, nefarious villains and what-have-you. It'd let you cherry-pick a little in terms of how much stuff from Fables you'd want to see more easily, presenting it (again, from their perspective) as another world amongst the many, rather than as the world that the exiled Fables chose to retreat to.

Or, of course, Fabletown could just be plonked down somewhere in Metropolis, and tie the whole thing together that way, but it'd probably require a fair bit of fiddling to make it work without breaking the "feel" of things. I'm more than happy, of course, to go with whatever option you decide would work best for your game! There are plenty of ways to fit the Fables in, I'm sure, and perhaps we could muddle the continuity up such that it keeps that sort of "Legends In Exile" theme that made the early Fables stuff great. Also, um, apologies for the wall of text.

[Chao]

I'll make a CS this weekend.

[MrDidact]

@Hylozoist Well there are supposed to be literally an infinite amount of worlds in the DC multiverse, it's not just one comic book world. It'd be harder to justify why the Fables would travel to such a world and interact with it. Plus I kind of want this DC Earth to be the roleplay's "Main Earth" and not a convergent reality off of the Fable universe's Earth, which is presented as our world.

I think it'd be better to tailor the concept of "Legends in Exile" in the DCU itself. Fabletown could still be in New York and some of the mythology could be tailored to DC. Magic is real, supernatural creatures are real, gods are real, so a lot of those characters would be different. But the unique Fable characters like Jack, Charming, Boy Blue, these would all be a different class of being and that's where the stories come to life aspect would be applied I think. Fabletown itself could just be a general immigrant community for Supernatural beings, not just stories come to life.

@Chaotic Chao Can't wait to see it.

[MrDidact]

@Hylozoist Still interested in playing?

[Hylozoist]

Yes, and I'm really sorry it's taken me so long to reply - I got a bit stuck when it comes to character ideas, I think! Brock, while it'd be fun, is probably too minor a character in the grand scheme of things. I'm not sure I'd really be able to do justice to some of the more well-known characters though, so I'm thinking that it might be easiest / best to make an OC that'd fit in with the Fables style of things.

I've had an idea about the Cheshire Cat of Wonderland floating in my head all weekend, you see.

[MrDidact]

@Hylozoist Oh interesting. I could see Wonderland being an actual alternate dimension in this world and the Justice League and Legion of Doom both have interests there. Plus there's a character in DC who uses the Cheshire cat as a motif, you might want to have some fun with that.