I <3 Contessa. I really hope she's in 200X.

Ideas I'm contemplating for my 'stable' for two characters:

KO: I'm open to suggestions on how to improve the eruption story here. "Turned into an MMO character," when said out loud, does sound kind of stupid. One thing I was toying with was the notion that Daniel discovers he is a latent and both him and C.F. (mentioned below) try increasingly inane methods of provoking eruption, with the expected 'hilarious' results.

Also am giving Danielle an older sister, a semi-professional artist who specializes in paintings of chairs. Sibling relations is one thing I regretted cutting out the first go-round. I'll also be giving Knockout a best friend who is an even bigger schmuck than she is, who attends college with Daniel pre-eruption.

Knockout still has the generic powers of toughness, super-strength and the ability to fly; also is preternaturally gorgeous.

Vixen: the big change I'm considering is having her married prior to eruption, both her and her husband having accepted what fate's decreed for their relationship though they look forward to the day that Roxanne's place in the queue for spinal surgeries comes through. (I'm going with the notion that even with a new spine, the nerve damage is so ingrained that it would take lengthly physiotherapy for her to regain mobility.) Eruption of course, changes all of that, not necessarily for the worse, but there will be adjustments to make.

She'll still be claiming that a two-tailed vulpine she was studying bit her just before eruption, but will be unsure of what exactly that means, and will never find out. I know what it is, and have let it slip a time or two, but it's not something I plan to cover in 200X.

Powerswise I'll be keeping the broad-based original powers: sharp sense of smell, telepathy and telepathic illusions, flight, fire bolts, and I'll be adding molecular manipulation as a sort-of super-fine illusion; convincing the world a coffee cup is a pencil, for example.

The new character is named Miranda Sky (that's her stage name,) a low-ranking reporter who erupted when falling off a building. She gained Body Modification (Wings) and Flight 5. You can't really change the social-economic structure of an entire country with that, so she's opted to become an amateur documentarian, much like the novas mentioned in the Player's Guide. This gives her lots of excuses to hang around other novas, because she'll have a camera in her hand.

I foresee young Flicker and KO. . .

I just have no idea what to do with her. I could pull a Gabe Law and Mega App her to 5 with 'center of attention', 'blind bewitchment', and almost live...

Seriously though, I have to concepts for her.

You are the spoiled, beautiful billionaire-heiress who is ugly on the inside. Your eruption will result in you learning to feel empathy for others, becoming as beautiful inside as out.

Or you know, not.

Dr. R. White

A Mega Mental nova, with some Mega-Charisma and Mega-Manip.
Some of his powers are ESP, Teleport, Hypnosis, Psychic Shield, and Telepathic Domination.

Waiting on decision about purchasing Merits, before final point allocation.

After the characters have actually been created and sheets posted, I will recompile my list to be accurate and make it a sticky topic in the characters section. Having a quick reference seems very handy to me. I hate having to scan through every posted character sheet to see what their basic concept is and what powers they all have.

Doubleplus helpful.

Maybe super bitchy Gravity controling nova...

Or ditzy blonde... The Crusader... with great bewbies and no clue. Eh... that's kinda Knockout's schtcik....

I dunno, nothing is coming to mind.

Hmm...seems like there's a lot of telepaths with mirage getting floated. Not sure how that affects Whisper.

On the one hand, it's a concept almost guaranteed not to work well in an actual game setting, cuz she's too much of a paranoid loner...so this might be the only place I can really try her out. On the other, it seems silly to waste one of my character slots on someone that won't be covering much unique ground.

Maybe I'll just sit on that and re-assess later on...

So. Two characters. Two. HMM.

Vv's power scheme isn't changing much with the import. I'm sorry if that complicates things for you, but, to be honest, there really isn't much unique ground left to cover on the site as far as powers and "themes" are concerned. If she's a character you'd really like to try out, just try to make her background and personality as interesting as possible. Power schemes are pretty limited, so it's hard to come up with something completely original. Make the character herself memorable, and don't worry too much about whether or not someone's got similar powers, because they'll probably use them very differently.

Arr...good advice.

I'm not terribly worried about it. It's not like I don't have enough character ideas.

Thanks though!

You mean as opposed to "dropped a hammer on my foot" or "got angry at a computer mouse"? The glory of a stupid eruption is it's more realistic, or at least something we can relate to.

Or like Glowstick in the 2010 boards? "Got up to pee in the middle of the night and stubbed his toe"?

Realistic?

"I was working at a help desk when I erupted. Blinding headache that was only slightly different from the normal migraine of talking with technostupid people under the delusion of being Steve Job in their past life. Suddenly the world opened up and I could see it in ways I never had before and have never found the words to describe. It was terrifying. Beautiful. Fucked up."

"I teleported to the location of my bitching client and disintegrated him. It wasn't murder. I thought it was just the usual homicidal fantasy, including the look of shock and fear on their face, but more vivid. I didn't realize it wasn't a day dream until the smell of ozone and grilling hamburger hit me. I usually don't smell anything in the fantasies."

"Devries has got some really good lawyers. Got me off on a manslaughter 2 rap and time served. Yeah, I'm a company man all the way."

"So what's your story?"

Btw - DrivethruRPG has the Player's Handbook on sale for $4.95. The core book in pdf format is higher but at $11.95 is affordable for many.

The bad news is the books are bundled as scans in the pdf so still not searchable.

Yeah, I really wish I had a good PDF of the books that was actually indexed and searchable.

I just wish I had all the books...

I have them all, but I'm missing several in electronic format. Would be really handy to have the rest on my flash drive.

I don't have them all

*goes off to cry in a corner*

I am still figuring out who is in and who is out, character-wise, but Robster is definitely in:

Robster 'Bob' Lock, your Nova Newsman on assignment.

From technical expositions in downtown Tokyo to civil unrest in the Middle East, from new volcanoes on the Pacific seafloor to new modules on the International Space Station, Bob is on the scene to bring you the news as it happens.

Bob Lock possesses the superhuman observational and analytical skills to get the most critical details, the social prowess to conduct (and survive) the toughest interviews and the durability to be on scene in the harshest environments. Combined with the ability to instantly appear wherever the news is happening, Bob Lock is the ultimate roving-reporter.

I was kind of tempted to create Zach Bronstein as a full fledged nova.

I'm holding off on Vv- I'm a bit leery of screwing something up in her creation.

Emma-Grace Wade is my new introduction- a blind girl who manages to be surprisingly perceptive.

Armageddon! - A nova that has the ability to ignite his intestinal gases. The build up of pressure results in his ability to launch quantum constructed gerbils from his ass at a high velocity.

Another concept on the table... I'm going to have to narrow these down with extreme prejudice.

Kevin Larenz, aka Kevlar
Concept: Gradual monsterification

At eruption he has nothing but lots of mega stamina and the full gamut of stamina enhancements.

Initially his body isn't actually resistant to damage, instead it regenerates all but the the most grievous wounds nigh instantly. The problem is, what grows back isn't flesh & blood...

I think Gerad's going to be it for me until I find something I just have to play. I've got my fingers in too many pies as it is, and I'd like to point out - again - that allowing 2010 characters to migrate over would both inject some interesting blood into 200X and help ease the burden in 2010. Until and unless that option becomes available, I'll probably stick with just the one. Besides, Machina is more than enough awesome for one player. So much so even I'm barely able to handle it.

The charter doesn't say you can't. Put the pressure on Nova... only one of two things could happen:

1. She'll snap and destroy you.
2. She'll cave and give into your whining.

I have to admit, there are a few 2010 PCs I'd like to not see in 200X. But I roll with the punches.

Even if we do, at some point, allow 2010 imports, there needs to be a limitation on it. As it stands, you get all your 2018 characters (whether that's 1 or 10), plus an additional two new creations. If 2010 is already overpopulated, letting people bring anyone/everyone over is only going to repeat that problem in 200X, I think.

I'm only against migration from 2010 to 200X because that topic's discussion thread was not settled to the satisfaction of enough people. Get more people on board for it and convince more of the doubters, and we can do it.

For the record, I want to migrate Pew Pew Pew from 2010 to 200X.

Edit:
Here's who were against migration:

White Rat: However, he's against everything. If nine people say the sky is blue, he'll argue that it's green just for the sake of the argument.

Lou Anne Burgess: She's been against almost everything in the 200X discussion, and has even created threads for the sole purpose of slowing the overall progress of the 200X discussion. I think her reluctance on this issue is made of the same stuff.

Craig: He voted no and said it's because he's a dick. I think he was joking.

Michael McGee: Opined that we ought to wait and see for a month or so then revisit the discussion.

Set a post limit, or a number of character limit, or both, for auto-conversion.

I agree with character limits coming from 2010 to 200X, but I'm not sure where you're coming from with the idea of a post limit.

I disliked 2010 because it felt overpopulated and watered-down, and each monthly wave of new novas only made it worse. It was like a sea of unfamiliar faces to me, and if I made the effort to understand a character, that character would quickly fade into obscurity behind the next wave of new characters. The 200X era has a restriction on the number of brand new characters to prevent this from happening again.

I'd like to suggest a further compromise if we decide to migrate from 2010 to 200X: keep the current character import mechanic of 200X (unlimited 2018 reboots), and allow only one brand-new character in calendar year 2008 and each calendar year to follow. Furthermore, restrict all 2018 and 2010 migration to the first sixty days only, after which, only new characters may be created. This way, the flood of characters is restricted to a two-month period designed to jump-start the forum, and new characters trickle in very slowly after that.

I like Nova's proposal, but would also like to suggest a limit to the number of 2010 characters brought over. I would hate to depopulate that board, but I would also hate to water this one down too much. Kick starting the new forum is great, but it would be a shame to introduce a flood of characters in the first two months just so that they would be in the game only to have half of them fade into the background immediately.

That's a good point too.

Could the same sentiment be said of the 2018 boards?

I have a question that's been itching around in my head for a while: what about those of us who don't have many (or any) 2018 characters? I mean, taking Seph and myself as examples, each of us has a single 2018 character to reboot. Add the two new characters we have available, and our total creative contribution to the new board is three characters. I note a lot of people are rebooting or able to reboot as many as half a dozen characters from 2018, plus their new character or two.

Not for nothing, and I'm all in favor of helping reboot 2018, but it would be nice to have some way of compensating for that level of disparity in available input.

Maybe what we ought to do is limit everybody to 1 initial and one per year thereafter. Those can either be new or reboots from either 2018 or 2010.

That also helps encourage new players who may be reluctant to jump into a pool full of a teeming hoard of rebooted PCs.