COTG + Mutants & Masterminds

[Gunslinger]

I bought Mutants and Masterminds yesterday and I'm already pillaging characters from COTG to use as heroes and villains, such as:

- Genesis vs. Colonizers: Imagine a time traveling scenario where the Genesis Team (Max Shield, Genocide, Wraith, and Blizzard) travel back in time to help the heroes stop the Colonizers (Mandrill, Nefarus, Vendetta, Tocsin, and Painmaster) from conquering Earth.

- Chaos: I see Chaos being the equivalent of the smart grey Hulk of the early 90s.

- Lance At-Las: At-Las will finally get his due. Let's see his amazing strength in action.

- I'm also planning on swiping Bishop Hell, Comrade Terror, Puma, Jack of Diamonds, Swarm, Tendron, Killprey, Godsend, and Maramus, among others. The characters should be fairly easy to adapt, just beefing up their physical attributes and special powers to fit a PL 10 game.

[thefamoustommyz]

Fellow roleplayer, eh?

I've considered using CotG characters in various RPGs...such as Marvel SAGA and Street Fighter. In fact, I statted out a heavily Vyper influenced character for Street Fighter.

As for using CotG guys in Mutants & Masterminds, I'm thinking that Maramus would be a tad beyond a PL 10 game, IMHO.

And don't leave Vertigo out of the Genesis-Colonizers war!

[Darth Turkish]

What is Mutants and Masterminds?

[thefamoustommyz]

this could probably go in a different forum, given the subject matter...if anyone is offended by it being here, I'll certainly move it...but it's a superhero roleplaying game.

Cheap plug for (former) CPC artist Jeff Diamond...he has a sci-fi RPG called Orbit out that I have been (unforunately) unable to try because I haven't worked it into the budget yet. The first edition had an Aethrans sourcebook that he said would be getting revised for the second edition.

The website is www.orbit-rpg.com

Tommy

[Gunslinger]

I'd probably make Maramus the behind the scenes type, since he would probably be PL 20, like a Darkseid or Thanos style villain, and only have him reveal himself after quite a few adventures.

[Darth Turkish]

can it be a one player only RPG (like CotG) or do you really need a group like for Dungeons and Dragons?

And how does it compare to Palladium's Heroes Unlimited?

[thefamoustommyz]

Group kinda game...

And while I haven't messed with Heroes Unlimited, I have done some Palladium games, and I'd say Mutants & Masterminds is the second best supers RPG I have ever seen. But then, I loved SAGA which people tended to hate.

[Gunslinger]

None for me Turkish, I'm sweet enough. ;D

I only played Heroes Unlimited a few times, but reading M&M leads me to believe the characters of the same power level would be closer in ability than characters of the same level in HU. I always thought the classes in HU weren't nearly equal. M&M fixes this by being classless and having everything as a point buy.


For more information on Mutants and Masterminds, check out www.greenronin.com or www.mutantsandmasterminds.com.

[Darth Turkish]

Gunslinger said:

None for me Turkish, I'm sweet enough. ;D

Nice!

Thanks for the info, guys. I am definately going to take a look.

[moparpaul]

I'm going to move this to the games forum. Someone who might be browsing through that forum for something might find this topic interesting.

[GalactiKing]

I've played with various characters from COTG with HU. My favorites were Max Shield and the rest of Genesis, the AniMen, and Monad and Nth Degree.

[countnecros]

Fellow M&M player here, I have borrowed a COTG name (The Amazing Man) and made a growth hero out of him)

Has any one thought of taking the M&M pre-gens and making COTG characters out of them?

[thefamoustommyz]

I figured on at least using the art, if not the character concepts...being a crappy artist like I am, I cut corners whenever and wherever.

[nelson]

sounds like it might be fun.you can make them into new races.
neil