Sounds like fun!
Six words:
Punk Rock Heavy Metal Villain Kareoke!
Mini-guides: Force Field Defenders, Blasters, Market Self-Defense, Frankenslotting.
So you think you're a hero, huh.
@Boltcutter in game.
<ul type="square">[*]Your heavy metal punk rock band is exposed to an evening of karaoke. The shame causes a chemical malfunction causing a disturbing change in their physique and abilities![/list]
I was reading a post that there weren't enough guides about concept characters and groups. This guide is intended to feed your creativity and get you jazzed about building or participating in a group, supergroup or villain group based around a common premise.
Groups with a common premise are an awful lot of fun to participate in. Not only do you get to enjoy the game, but you get to experience the joy that comes from bringing your own special content into the game and sharing it.
These groups allow for individual creativity and spawn a creative frenzy within them as the ideas build and take on a life of their own. All you need to do is start with a fun premise and build from there.
LIST OF IDEAS - HELP YOURSELF AND ADD YOUR OWN:
<ul type="square">[*]Your gardening club has the misfortune to garden on an irradiated or cursed ground. Or maybe it is irradiated because it was cursed....[*]Build a better you. Too much of something you love or an industrial accident somewhere you frequent has given you superpowers. Make a character that looks like you with likely powers. Just be mindful of the EULA and pick a psuedonym. For even more fun, bring along your friends and have them do the same. Form a supergroup.[*]All the chili at the chili cook-off was spiked by an evil mastermind. You and the rest of the attendees start exhibiting strange and unusual powers. Can you unite to find the villain and prevent other such accidents?[*]A school trip to the museum exposes the children to a strange artifact.[*]Love is in the air! Your supergroup starts to pair off. Maybe it's a love potion.... What will happen to the progeny? Start a supergroup based on the children of the heroes you have come to love.[*]Ah, family! A family that fights together, stays together. Your family can be hideous monsters, a nuclear family, an extended family, or a husband and wife, sibling, or parent/child team. This is a good way to choose similar powers for stacking and other goodness.[*]That secret project at work really paid off.[*]Space. What if an alien alliance banded together to show earthlings the way? Or the aliens have come to take over the world, again?[*]The police chief in another metropolitan area gets tired of the odds against supers. He (or she) puts power drinks in the vending machines at the station to buff up the force. It works better than planned. Now this elite squadron is headed to Paragon City.[*]A pantheon of gods is amusing itself by vesting their powers in your little study circle.[*]The government has decided to fund your proposal for a supergroup, on the sly, of course. Now you must deliver on your promise. Are you trying to undermine another government? Clean up organized crime? Supply further chemicals to the infected? Dislodge the Rikti? Make the proposal a priority for your supergroup.[*]You wont be able to take down that arch-nemesis of yours without help. Maybe it is time to band together with other heroes or villains who also have an arch-nemesis. 'Your enemy is my enemy' can build a solid brotherhood. This could be a super or villain group of alts that take on all the groups of your mains.[*]They desecrated all those graves when building that super highway. Your spirits are restless and have taken a more corporeal form as you seek a way to find peace or return to humanity.[*]The asylum you were stashed away in is no longer secure. You and the other inmates can make your way to freedom. Sanity is over-rated anyhow.[*]That library book in every library in the world was cursed by a powerful magician. What are you and your fellow readers to do?[/list]
Have fun and keep the premise simple! Talk your friends into building a character based on the premise and playing for an evening starting at Level 1. It's like having a costume party. The surprise is in the creativity!