MasterMinds (and the Hero version of them)

Is there a way, umder options, that the owner of these surogates be able to reduce them in size? Or, as a player, I would like to be able to reduce ALL surogates so I am not having to work around them. I like these toons but I must admit...I understand why some people are resistant to play or play with them. OH...Can you make another option where i choose the surogate avatar...or have it be identical to myself (in look)?

well, customizing your pets is something we have been asking for, but it will be a lot of wok, or so it has been implied. so the answer is not yet, maybe someday, possibly not but unlikely soon.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

I would love to see heroic versions of the Masterminds. Call them "Commanders", "Leaders", "Sensi" or whatever. They could even have pets, (Call them followers for Heroes instead of pets) of their own unique flavor. Followers like PPD, Longbow, Wyvern or Mixed Martial Artists. Perhaps we could add some magically themed followers like "Student/Disciple" mages or accolytes. Robots, Mercs and Ninjas could be crossovers to work for both alignments, though the heroic versions should have alternate forms to the villain versions.

Personally, I'd love another AT in the same vein as Masterminds that has a damage primary (ranged, assault or melee) and pets as secondary. Where you're the one doing the damage, and the pets buff you rather than the other way around like it is for Masterminds. The three personal attacks in each set could be replaced with debuffs, control, or defensive powers depending on what they decided to make the primary.

Heroic Masterminds: because nothing screams heroism like sending lower level people to do the work for you and more than likely die in the process!

I'm not american. But I did serve in the armed forces. Even at a squad level (not fair to compare an in game MM to a general, after all - the MM has to be with his troops) in a training exercise it was not the section commander, nor the section 2IC, that were first into a room.

It was that way in GI Joe, though, so I could get behind a defense/minions setup. You'd have to be really careful with the numbers, though, lest it completely outclass Defenders.

you could have a beast master with bow and arrows as weapon, it doesn't have to be high-tech to work

As I rack my brain trying to think of heroic mastermind concepts, the ones I come up with are not ones that are comics, per se. The various Pokemon trainers are essentially a sort of mastermind. The Power Rangers, or at least the early season that I remember, without the Giant Mecha aspect would seem to me very much MM-like, since they typically all had similar powers, but different weapons.

The main character from the SNES game Robotrek might qualify as a Mastermind, since he did zero fighting and just built and buffed his robot minions.

If we had a mastermind set where the pets merged into one giant Mega-Pet as a possible power that would likely open up the heroic concept more, since that's something you see in a lot of shows. Voltron, Power Rangers, the gestalts from Transformers.

I wanted to say The Darkness might qualify, but I'm not familiar with much more than the general concepts, and I don't think he'd qualify as a Hero.

Dar from The Beastmaster and Squirrel Girl (AN ACTUAL COMIC EXAMPLE!) might work if we had an animal based MM set.

Pretty much I keep coming up with any group of individuals that team up that sport similar power/abilities might work as MM concepts if we had costume customization options. Pro wrestling stables (like DX or the nWo), your typical cast of RPG heroes/heroines, Power Rangers/Sailor Moon-like teams, and pretty much anything else that follows a formula of a group that works together more often than alone to fight their foes or something similar.

My diseased brain is saying that GWAR and KISS and other themed metal bands with three letter acronym/allcaps names might count.

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Originally Posted by reiella Until I see something that states to the contrary, going to assume VK is right .

The difference I see between Heroic and Villain Masterminds is really a matter of attitude. For the Villainous Mastermind his Henchmen are disposable minions solely there to further his own aims. Conversely for the Heroic Mastermind his Henchmen are valued team members. Maybe he doesn't fight on the front line with them but that's because he knows that his skills lie elsewhere. He supports them and if they are seriously injured he patches them up. Thematically the Mastermind summon powers could represent healing a fallen henchmen just as easily as it can represent recruiting a replacement.

Even the minion sacrifice powers (such as Detonator) can just as easily represent the henchman choosing to make a heroic sacrifice as it can the mastermind choosing to kill him.

At the end of the day the important thing is choice. Henchmen serve a Mastermind for whatever reason, for a Heroic Mastermind who's to say his henchmen don't work with him because they believe in what he is doing and want to be hero themselves. As an example I remember seeing a heroic Thugs MM who's backstory was that he was a reformed gang leader working with other gang members to clean up his 'hood.