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Post by frobones on Aug 5, 2012 14:12:39 GMT -8
Post all questions about the setting here.
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Post by reiphil on Aug 5, 2012 19:38:38 GMT -8
If homo superiors have been embraced, does that mean that players do not have to have alternate identities? Is it plausible for someone like this ( media.comicvine.com/uploads/6/66037/2174623-screen_shot_2012_01_25_at_4.18.01_pm.png ) to just be walking around (say they didn't have control over their appearance or something)? And also, is it plausible for supers to be in normal jobs? For example, if my character were in the military or local police, something like that wouldn't really have as huge as affect on them. |
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Post by frobones on Aug 5, 2012 20:51:35 GMT -8
If homo superiors have been embraced, does that mean that players do not have to have alternate identities? Most cases, Heroes usually wear a mask to protect their identity from villains who would harm their families, not because they are shunned. Most mutants in Marvel didn't hide their identity. Wolverine and Cyclops are like the only ones I can think of that hid their faces, but I think their identity was public. Hiding their identity would go against Xavier's vision for mutantkind. It's plausible, but little children may fear you and the uneducated may treat you differently. Just like there are hurtful people in this world now that view those with disabilities or disfigurements differently. And also, is it plausible for supers to be in normal jobs? For example, if my character were in the military or local police, something like that wouldn't really have as huge as affect on them. A super holding a job is treated no differently than a normal citizen, although you may be given tasks suited towards your special abilities. Like a super who can manipulate water may join the fire department or a super with teleportation may have a job in the public transit system or a super with super strength may replace heavy machinery at a construction company. There is no expectation that those with powers must police the city. It's up to the individual to answer the call "With great power comes great responsibility" |
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Post by frobones on Aug 5, 2012 22:01:14 GMT -8
So in other words it's kind of like a fledgling DC universe. Marvel the world hates and fears most supers. In DC it's mostly the opposite the world over. Rather than fear Earth's mightiest they revere them. My theory is because People in the DC world's first experience with a mega powered individual was Superman. In marvel the first was Magneto trying to set off nukes or the Hulk raging. Interesting the difference in first impressions. I bring it up because if no major super powered presence has yet to develop for good or for bad than popular opinion is at present quite difficult to accurately determine. You're half right. There have been super powered acts of goodness and acts of villainy, it's just that no one has been masked. There have been bank robberies by super powered thugs and the day has been saved by a super powered police officers. So biased public opinion based on what you guys do won't land on Homo-superiors in general, but on masked vigilantism. So all that being said, Joseph does bring up a very valid point. Based on what you guys do in this campaign will determine the public opinion on masked heroes (if any). Will they be claimed a menace like J. Jonah Jameson tarnishes Spiderman's reputation? Will they be a mixed blessing like Christopher Nolan's Batman? Or will they be held with esteem like Superman and the Justice League? As for the whole DC vs Marvel public opinion hating or not hating supers, i kind of disagree. Marvel doesn't hate Supers, it hates mutants. That's because those in power fear being replaced by them in the "food chain". Magneto added a lot of fuel to that fire with his agenda, but then again he was retaliating against Homo-sapiens due to his experiences at the hands of the Nazis. Granted, DC does hold a more iconic goodness to their heroes, but DC doesn't really have mutants. Try naming a few for me. |
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Post by frobones on Aug 6, 2012 14:16:48 GMT -8
After having some back and forth with Phil on when Homo-Superiors became prevalent enough to warrant the acceptance that we are at the next step of human evolution, I've decided that event happened around the 1950s. So in the 1950s, it became acceptable to the public that there are Homo-Superiors around the world and it is now the natural course of things.
As for the density of the Homo-superior population, it will go something like this: Across the globe there are 20 Homo-Superiors per major city, 10 per suburb, 5 per township, 1 per rural.
If anything else is unclear about the setting, we can hash it out and determine some hard facts.
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Post by Joseph Barros on Aug 7, 2012 6:53:59 GMT -8
Ah but Steven its not just mutants in Marvel. True the Mutants get the worst of it but even the Avengers are treated with suspicion. People wouldn't buy into The Daily Bugle's attacks on spidey if it wasn't already easy for them to view those who are different with fear or suspicion regardless of their actions. It's how things work in the real world and Marvel just applied it to their universe. If you read Avengers/JLA a few years back the two teams even remarked on how great the difference of public opinion towards super hero teams is. Again I think the clincher is the big guns. In DC the first big gun was a Christ like (or hitler like depending on your perspective) figure beating on bad guys. In Marvel the First public living WMDs was Hulk and Magneto. It's a lot easier for people to give benefit of the doubt in DC. In Marvel even the non mutants aren't often celebrated and none are outright Revered as with the JLA. Though the JLA never ignited a Civil War so I can see why.
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Post by David on Sept 25, 2012 22:03:28 GMT -8
Question regarding the Crime and Punishment page. How does enforcement work? That is, how can someone tell when a power is being used (especially a subtle power)? Do casinos have Home-Superior detectors above the tables, or do they just throw out anyone who goes on a streak?
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Post by frobones on Sept 26, 2012 8:30:47 GMT -8
Enforcement is done no differently then any other crime. There is no "Powers Police" with the ability to detect the use of powers or Homo Superior detecting devices... not yet anyways. In order to charge for the crime, evidence has to be produced. So your senses or by power of deduction would be needed to tell if someone is using a power. If the power is subtle, the probability of detecting power use is very minimal.
As for the casino scenario, they would get thrown out for a winning streak. Just as I would assume the same would happen to someone with the ability to count cards.
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Post by reiphil on Sept 26, 2012 13:35:27 GMT -8
As for the casino scenario, they would get thrown out for a winning streak. Just as I would assume the same would happen to someone with the ability to count cards. Pretty much this. They monitor everyone, and if you're doing really good, they make you stop. |
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