Portal:Marvel Super Heroes

Cacophony Portals Champions Online · City of Heroes · Dungeons and Dragons · Marvel Super Heroes · Star Trek Online · Star Wars Galaxies · Star Wars: The Old Republic edit   Marvel Super Heroes TSR's Marvel Super Heroes RPG was the second RPG I'd really spent time playing, as both a player and GM. (Star Frontiers was the first, but those character sheets are long gone.) I'd picked it up when it was first released, and eventually got hold of most of the materials released for it, up to the Doctor Doom boxed set and all the Marvel Universe Handbooks. I'd made a bunch of characters on the hero and the villain side of the fence, and it represented my earliest attempts at writing (none of which was on a computer-they weren't everywhere back then). Accordingly, some of the details are iffy. Of note is the fact that that I recently revisited the characters and created a Mutants and Masterminds RPG version of the characters; the stats don't map perfectly, but they preserve the spirit of the characters. Most of these are imagined as PL10, 150pp characters. edit   Force Supreme This was the first team of super heroes made for the setting, and was envisioned as the "generic super hero group". Eventually, it settled into a group specializing in recovering alien technology-but they were involved in everything from outer space to other dimensions. In some ways, they were the "Fantastic Four" of these teams. Challenger Crossarm Pixie Tornado Winterfrost Mineral Man edit   Fate Incorporated Fate Incorporated was the team I eventually broke my writing chops on. Envisioned originally as a large-scale "heroes for hire", at a corporate level rather than at the small scale, this team was the "alpha division". Eventually, the team mutated into a Federal Marshal role with a side goal of replacing Project Pegasus as the superhuman database of record. Electrode III Energion Nightstar Repulse Starblaze I Starblaze II Tri-Blade edit   The Hunters The Hunters followed parallel tracks in some ways. The original Hunters were recruited by an alien to locate the future ruler of his race, while preventing another faction of his species from killing that ruler. One of the groups recruited by that faction was the Troop of Evil, which eventually came into conflict with the Hunters. Later, it came out that the Troop had been brainwashed into serving that faction, and they surrendered themselves to the now-restored alien ruler. This eventually led to the merging of the Troop with the Hunters, as a team serving as an elite force for the alien federation. Buzzsaw Darknight Gunfighter (MSH) Powerhouse Smasher Wing edit   The Champions Like the Hunters, this group went through some mutations. Originally harboring that alien ruler mentioned above, the team operated as the Defenders. The team underwent upheavals and some of them banded together again to serve in an Avengers Experimental Franchise. When the main team disbanded the West Coast Avengers, they disbanded the AEF as well-but unwilling to simply fade away, chose to begin once again as the Champions (using a name abandoned by the old Champions of Los Angeles). Blackwind Brainstorm Displacer Enigma Gamma Lightstriker Mindblade (MSH) Stalker Ultrawarrior (MSH) edit   Lone Wolves Not all heroes were a part of a team. Some heroes operated on their own, either due to inclination or power. Phantom Sorcerer edit   Force X Force X is a group of human criminals who were conscripted by an alien bounty hunter to join his cause. After gaining a taste for it, this group now operates on an interstellar stage, hunting down any target if the price is right. Plasnet Strongfoot Telon Tiny Zorflot edit   Group Mind The arch-enemies of Force Supreme, this team specialized in psychic powers. These villains eventually would abandon the obvious world-domination or revenge schemes, as it tended to leave them beaten and jailed most of the time. Instead, they chose to try to stay off of superheroic radar, with some measure of success. Deflector Doctor Demonicus II Eclipse Mister Darrk Pathway Psiclops edit   Nemesis Fate Incorporated dealt with a number of threats, but only one organized enough to be a team of super-villains, led by a robot with startling ties to Fate's heroes! Counterstrike Earthshaker Genios Mindstorm Shadowlord edit   Omega Force Omega Force had crossed swords with a number of heroes in our campaigns. First they showed up to fight a Canadian superteam by kidnapping a relative of their leader (that team's stats are long gone from history, sadly), then fought the Hunters, then fell apart and reformed under a new leader to fight the AEF. For the most part, they were considered by their leaders to be disposable super-mooks who just wouldn't give up. Electron Flamefrost Master Magics Omega Magitek Timelord edit   Solo Acts Not all villains were a part of a team. Some villains were either powerful enough to take on entire teams of heroes, or simply preferred to work alone without the drama that came with villain teams. Aquamaniac Destinos Oblivion Questron