Radio City 2112: An Evil Mastermind RPG Sign-Ups

The wondrous city of superheroes and super villains is back with a futuristic twist! For returning players, this will be that same setting you’ve all become familiar with, set roughly a century into the future, with all the technological implications that that entails. For new players just joining us, welcome to Radio City, one of the largest homes of vigilantes and super powered crime lords on the planet! (Also in Maine.) This game has been a semi-popular recurring free form superpower RPG where players bring heroes and villains from all walks of life to clash against one another for the (daily) fate of the city.

An important aspect to note is that while the GM occasionally has plots occur here and there within the city, for the most part there is no general overarching plot. But that’s what we have villains for, right? One of the great things about this RP is that the players get to kick off their own schemes and plots in the bid to take over/destroy/extort/rob/prank the city. As long as all your fellow players are fine with it, go nuts – the city is yours to siege as villains, and the city is yours to save as heroes! For those worried about missing out on the lore of the past games, don’t fret – this game is designed so that any player with any character can jump in at any time. Don’t be afraid to throw yourself into the fray!

Now for those wondering about the setting, it’s nothing too complicated – just your usual superhero city by the ocean, but also set in the semi-near future. Sure, the city’s been blown up or flooded or such and such over the years, but it gets rebuilt every time!

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Some ground rules.

• Standard RP rules still apply – no auto-hitting, no taking control of another person’s character, no being a dick, etc., etc.
• Multiple characters are allowed.
• Players are allowed to introduce their own locales and elements to the setting so long as they don’t conflict with what has already been established.
• Players are allowed to control whatever NPCs they introduce, but not the NPCs of another player without that player’s given permission.
  • Combat NPCs are for the most part treated as Mooks. Players can auto-hit them and they shouldn’t be extraordinarily difficult to take down. Anything higher than this will be judged by a case to case basis – I’d rather this RP focus more on the player characters themselves than on how they lead their forces.
• Players are totally allowed to make their own character arcs. Hell, I encourage it. That being said, don’t go overboard like having an impending meteor coming to destroy the city unless you’ve been given GM permission or something.
  • Players may make their own one shot villains/heroes for their arc if they run it by the GMs.
• Taco, Nman, and daltar are my co-GMs. Feel free to contact them if you have any questions or concerns about the RP.
• Rules may be adjusted as the RP carries on.

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• The RP
• Discussion and Characters
• Lore and Locales
• Character Spreadsheet - credits to darksidevoid!
• Trope Page - credits to Nman!

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• Game Masters (3): daltar, Starbound2, Taco
• Registered Players (13): D 4 C, darksidevoid, desdendelle, Evi I Paladin, goodisgood, Karrin Blue, Musik Maestro, Nman, Romanian Inquisitor, Saturn, Scorpio Rat, Tails Doll, Teh Stanman

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And finally, the character sheet:

• Name:
• Age:
• Gender:
• Appearance:
  • Costume (If Applicable):
• Personality:
• Biography:
• Abilities:
• Equipment:
• Additional Notes:

edited 10th Jul '13 5:07:11 PM by Starbound2

Is there anything in specific that's not allowed? Just want to make sure mad super-builders is a thing. I totally have some characters I can use for this.

"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."

No telekinesis or remote body manipulation, those sorts of things are difficult for people to counter. No teleportation spamming. Beyond that, everything will be judged on a case-to-case basis.

I presume every time a super-builder wants to create something it needs to be reviewed first? Anyways, hows a somewhat inaction supervillain who creates biological and robotic creations along with fancy tech?

"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."

Mmm, the thing is I'm not particularly fond of mook-making villains. I'd rather they be the ones doing things themselves.

His actual mook army is for distractions while his elite creations follow directions he needs done for his next experiment. There like five of them at best, and everything else is stuff like little robots or flame-breathing cats. But its fine either way, the concept hasn't been fleshed out anyways.

"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."

I'm interested, but why no telekinesis? Lifting someone into the air with it appears threatening at first glance, but ultimately anyone who can activate their power without the use of their limbs is not going to be hindered much by it. In fact, unless the telekinetic can exert as much force with their mind as their victim can with their own physical strength, they won't even be able to move them at all.

That being said, what degree of power are our heroes and villains allowed? Is this more like Watchmen (sans Dr. Manhattan of course), or is it more like Pre-Crisis DC?

edited 24th Mar '13 11:59:43 PM by KSPAM

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Well, I'm also worried about things like, say, stopping hearts, smushing key blood vessels, and the like. I'd be willing to drop the restriction of "no telekinesis ever", but it would need some balancing.

As for degree of powers... I don't really read comic books, so "Pre-Crisis" doesn't really mean anything to me. But I would say things on the order of 3 or lower on the Super Weight scale.

By Pre-Crisis, I meant superpowers on a totally insane scale. Even Post-Crisis, most anyone in DC that's worth a shit can move at incredibly faster than light speeds, and possesses enough raw firepower to crack a planet, if not a sun. And if they can't do that, they make up for it in hax (like mind-controlling the population of an entire continent or running so fast you can phase through objects and travel back in time). And that's Post-Crisis. Pre-Crisis Superman once destroyed an entire solar system by sneezing.

Also, the Super Weight scale is a little outdated, so something a little more specific would help. What levels of speed and destructive ability are we talking here?

I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serial

I don't know if it helps you figure out power levels, but this was the last RP and I think that's about what he's going for. (I mean as in looking at what powers dudes who got accepted had.)

edited 25th Mar '13 12:38:16 AM by nman

Yeah, all of that's a no...

This links to character sheets in the previous iteration.

This links to character sheets in the iteration before that.

That may give you some idea of the power scale I'm looking for.

A lot of that's really vague...

Anyway, from what I'm getting, you're against any power or conflict on a scale larger than good ol' terra firma. So what then, large-building busters? City block, multi-city block? Town level, low end city level? We talking damage in the tons, kilotons, megatons, or teratons of TNT? Would anyone be able to affect an area as large as the entire city or greater with their powers? How long would it take the fastest speedsters in this setting to run all the way across the globe?

I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serial

Alternately, we could all make characters with reasonable power levels that don't make the idea of conflict an impossibility.

It's been fun.

Guys... I don't think you're allowed to crack the planet, travel through time, or mind control a damn continent. This ain't a DC Comic Book, yo.

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A loooooot less than that. If your attacks destroy a block of a city then you might be doing something wrong.

Think I dunno... Batman Beyond and or Ben 10 kind of destruction. We don't want to utterly destroy the city or think too hard about physics.

If I'm sure of something it's that I'm not sure of anything.

Hey, it worked for DC and Marvel. Hell, most comic books and anime I can think of off the top of my head usually have a couple people who are like living nukes, and they still manage to have a perfectly legitimate conflict and story. Powerlevels have nothing to do with quality. I'm just asking for clarification.

Ben 10 probably isn't the best example, because Waybig is conservatively a city to possibly a country smasher due to size alone, Vilgax can tank 12 nukes straight up in his face, and Alien X is pretty much a high tier reality warper who could undo the universe if it wanted.

edited 25th Mar '13 12:57:39 AM by KSPAM

I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serial

We're not leaving the city, so. Please stop thinking in the scale of wrecking whole city blocks. Or even buildings. If we're keeping the conflict localized, the power scale should fit the size of the conflict.

@KSPAM: That's true enough, but those works are also written by a single author with a goal in mind for the direction of his characters, and a sense of when those nuke characters bend to others for reasons that have nothing to do with power (see: Evangeline and Negi). In a roleplay setting, opening up those tiers of power would be nothing short of killing the roleplay, because (for me, at least) there are very few roleplayers I know that I'd trust with that sort of restraint and discretion with those power levels open.

It's been fun.

Alright think Spiderman and mostly just the fights that normally occurred within. Not the ones where something on the screen would imply a lot more power when you number crunch.

It's a low powered setting and when powers are displayed that when physics and math are applied to it say it might be way stronger than the intended effect, then we take creative license to it and just say that no, it does exactly what we wanted at that power level.

edited 25th Mar '13 1:02:20 AM by daltar

If I'm sure of something it's that I'm not sure of anything.

Well that's just the thing with superhero settings. Powerlevels will always vary wildly (and before anyone brings it up as an example, anyone who thinks Batman could beat Superman in a straight up fight deserves to be punched in the face). And an attack doesn't necessarily have to destroy a building or a city block to be considered a building or city block busting attack. Oftentimes, Ao E and authors generally not acknowledging physics make attacks that pack verifiable megatons of TNT look no more impressive than a demolition site (like Excalibur in F/SN, which looks like it can barely destroy a building with its Ao E, but packs around 355 megatons of concentrated firepower). It's the difference between a bullet and a bomb, really.

I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serial

Anyway, we are not really thinking in that scale and with those rules KSPAM. We are not thinking physics, we are thinking like those authors and instead just worry about what effect the powers of our characters affect their environment and not the implications of it.

Really, number crunching and physics and meta thinking are the wrong way to go at it with this. Just think of not making something that can destroy a city block and such.

If I'm sure of something it's that I'm not sure of anything.

You're thinking too big, man. Just come up with a concept and work from there; you don't need to decide how many bloody megatons something packs.

It's been fun.

I'm sorry. It appears I've spent waaaaaay too much time in the OBD

I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serial

Yups, gotta shake off that OBD! We ain't not need any physics.

If I'm sure of something it's that I'm not sure of anything.

How about you go create a character and then we will see if it is the right power level. While this isn't a DC Comic Book, it is a comic book verse, so we're playing fast and loose with science here.

edited 25th Mar '13 1:18:03 AM by GameGuruGG

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