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Brood: the Legacy - Character Creation Guidelines
Rules
Character Point Base
Characters are built on a point base of 900 Hero Points plus
the 45 Bonus Points for a written History, Background, and Personality.
Due to the starting situation, History will consist mainly of
suggested parentage and personal subplots. Likewise, Personality will
describe how the character will act in future games.
All Advantages and Drawbacks are at two times their original Hero Point cost/bonus. Characters are built using 3rd Edition DC Heroes RPG rules. Any other rules and questions can be submitted to the GM for inclusion at the GM's discretion.
If a Player does not own a DC Heroes RPG manual, the GM has a form that the Player can fill out to create a character.
The FAQ Rules
Anything that is stated as an official rule in the DCH FAQ,
http://w3.one.net/~joshdm/dch.html will be used. This
includes the Invulnerability interpretation. New power, skill,
advantage or disadvantage write-ups should be discussed first with the
GM.
Starting Powers, Skills, Etc.
Player characters may start with any level of power, skill,
advantage or drawbacks allowed under the
rules, within the starting Hero Point total. Due to the
nature of the situation (see below), certain skills, advantages
and drawbacks have been limited.
Skills In general, skills can only be known up to the level of their link attribute. They need not be linked (that decision is up to the player), but they can not exceed the link attribute in value. In addition, some skills are not permitted to starting characters (although can be learned quickly, if important to character concept). They are:
- Artist (Photographer)
- Detective (Identification Systems, Law, Police Procedure)
- Medicine (Surgery)
- Military Science (Cartography, Demolition)
- Occultist (Create Artifact, Occult Knowledge)
- Scientist (Drawing Plans)
- Thief (Locks & Safes, Security Systems)
- Vehicles (ALL)
- Weaponry (ALL)
Advantages
Due to the starting situation, some advantages are inappropriate.
They are:
- Area Knowledge
- Buddy
- Connection
- Free Access
- Gadget
- Headquarters
- Omni-Connection
- Pet
- Popularity
- Rich Family/Friends
- Security Clearance
Drawbacks
Due to the starting situation, some drawbacks are inappropriate.
They are:
- Authority Figure
- Dark Secret
- Exile
- Guilt
- Married
- Mistrustn
- Public Identity
- Secret Identity
Backgroud
The game world serving as background for this PBEM game is an amalgamated weave of DC Comics and Marvel Comics characters and continuity. In general, well known DC and Marvel characters first appear in the game world during the same year they were first published, and then adventure and age from there. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule to keep things interesting and keep certain characters available in prime crime fighting shape.
To give credit where due, this game world is based on a suggestion (and allegedly, his own game) by Aaron Allston back in the early 1970's. My particular implemntation of the idea has been developed and refined for over 20 years now, which brings us the game world the Brood will be starting in. To review the history of this game world, click here.
Situation
The player characters are, themselves, laboratory bread amalgams of
super powered individuals who were publicly accessible during
the late 1960's and early 1970's. Players should remember when
various DC comics and Marvel comics characters were first published when
designing their characters. A list of possible genetic material donors
is provided below.
Parental Possibilities
The following is a list of major super heores available as possible genetic material donors during the time the unnamed scientist was at large. This list is primarily heroes and is by no means exclusive. Genetic material was taken from several individuals who would be considered villains as well. Future players are encouraged to consult the game world history here.
Members of (before 1973) the Avengers, the Fantastic four, the Justice Society, the Justice League, Infinity, Inc., the Teen Titians, the X-Men, the Defenders, the Suicide Squad, the Serpent Squadron(name?), the Outsiders, the New Mutants and Brotherhood of Evil.
Non-affiliated comic characters include (off the top of my head) Hulk, She-Hulk, Batman II, Dr. Strange, Spiderman, Captain Marvel ( couple of them, actually), various alien Green Lantrans, Joker, Magneto, Luthor, Lobo, White Queen, Maxima, Quasar and, well, you get the idea. If you have a question as to whether a particular comic book character is an appropriate genetic donor, send your concept to me and we'll work things out together.