AndyC

MARVELS: Streets of New York

Couple of other things to make known:

In order to A) give players the best opportunity to affect the course of the RP and B) not overload ourselves between character and GM duties, Hound and Retired and I have agreed to not stake a claim of any of the big-name characters like Spider-Man. So if you want the Webs, speak up.

Also, we are allowing competing apps, even for the GMs. So just because one player has expressed interest in a character, don't think you have to give up on it. You can throw some elbows if you want.

MARVELS: Streets of New York

...I mean, he does fit all the criteria...

MARVELS: Streets of New York

Power-scaling and whatnot aside, defining "street level" as "operating primarily in a single city (namely New York) and dealing with issues primarily affecting that city," there's quite a few:

Hider

Black Cat
Blindspot
Blue Bird
Cloak and Dagger
Colleen Wing
Daredevil
Elektra
Hawkeye (Clint and/or Kate)
Hellcat
Iron Fist
Jessica Jones
Luke Cage
Misty Knight
Moon Knight (maybe)
Punisher
Prowler
Scarlet Spider
Shang Chi
Spider-Man (Pete and/or Miles)
Spider-Gwen/Ghost Spider
Spider-Woman
Squirrel Girl
Venom
White Tiger

MARVELS: Streets of New York

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roleplayerguild.com/posts/5544918

TL;DR near-retirement senior agent in a still-early-stages SHIELD encounters Jubilee just starting her journey into vampirism and starts to reckon with the supernatural aspects of the world that were previously unknown to him or SHIELD, eventually starting the sub-division STAKE to deal with it.

@Roman

I think that's outside then scope of what we're doing with this RP. The primary events and storylines are going to be the likes of organized-crime families, serial killers, that sort of thing. Stuff that affects the individual neighborhoods of the city, rather than dealing with global organizations and conspiracies. We're keeping things on this scale to encourage collaboration and interaction, rather than everyone sticking to their own personal freedoms of Canon.

Does SHIELD operate in NYC? Almost certainly. But they're not going to be the focus of this RP. Same goes with the X-Men, the FF, etc.

MARVELS: Streets of New York

Currently discussing with my fellow GMs about the whole "team members who aren't going to be team members" thing. But in general, the way we're treating the X-Men, the Avengers, the FF, etc, is that they do exist and have existed for some time but they're just kinda offscreen dealing with other problems.

MARVELS: Streets of New York

My only hang-up with Nightcrawler would be explaining why he's operating solo rather than with the X-Men. The same can be said of Hawkeye with the Avengers, but Hawkeye does have a well-known solo run. I'm not saying a flat no off the cuff, but I'd need to see the application to be sold on it.

MARVELS: Streets of New York

It's an interesting take, but I do think struggling with his monstrous nature and craving for blood is kind of integral to his character- otherwise, the uniqueness of being a vampire gives way to being a vampire skin on a regular superhero. Having some degree of control over it isn't a bad idea, since it shows he's made progress, but I'd be careful not to just remove one of the character's central conflicts, since that's part of what makes him interesting.

Ultimate One Universe: Emergence

Are there currently a group of you discussing together ideas, and parsing through what works and doesn't work in these games? Or is everyone doing some solo brewing still?

@Retired

There's not really a group chat, or at least not one I'm invited to. I'd be down for it though

Ultimate One Universe: Emergence

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What're your primary ideas at the moment?

@Retired

Like I'd mentioned, I'd like to do a more street focused game set in the Marvel New York. More specifically, though, I'm thinking Marvel New York during the Bronze Age, the late 70s/early 80s- not as gonzo as the Silver Age or as cutesy and self-aware as the modern age, but not as grimdark as the 90s, and where a lot of the mainstay characters were in their most famous runs (Conway's Spider-Man, Claremont's X-Men, Miller's Daredevil, etc). The story focus would be on less out-there material-- gang wars, murder mysteries, neighborhood-level crises with only the occasional "big" villain here and there-- but the overall emphasis would be on getting characters to interact with each other and with the city, really flesh out the neighborhoods and the people in it while also being tormented by Kingpin or kicking around Stilt-Man.

Ultimate One Universe: Emergence

@mattmanganon I'm taking the opposite angle with what I'd like to do, honing in on a specific place and period, but hit me up if you'd like to kick some ideas around.

That goes for all of y'all who wanna brainstorm too. Seriously, I'm lonely.