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[[Category:PBP]] | [[Category:PBP]] | ||
[[Category:RPU]] | [[Category:RPU]] | ||
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[[Category:Marvel Super-Heroes]] | [[Category:Marvel Super-Heroes]] | ||
− | + | [[File:SomeAssemblyRequired.jpg|right|frame|Art by Ziven of Nine]]''Some Assembly Required'' is an Avengers PBP game set on Marvel Universe Earth-2015 and run using TSR's ''Marvel Super-Heroes'' RPG (FASERIP). The original pitch by [http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?141088-Bellerophon Bellerophon] is: | |
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[http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?142455-Bunch Bunch] as '''Moon Knight''' ([http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?760750-FASERIP-Avengers-Some-Assembly-Required&p=19180650#post19180650 FASERIP]/ICONS AE) | [http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?142455-Bunch Bunch] as '''Moon Knight''' ([http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?760750-FASERIP-Avengers-Some-Assembly-Required&p=19180650#post19180650 FASERIP]/ICONS AE) | ||
− | [http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?63423-Captain-Astounding Captain Astounding] as '''Dr. Druid''' ([http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?760750-FASERIP-Avengers-Some-Assembly-Required&p=19178378#post19178378 FASERIP]/ICONS AE | + | [http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?63423-Captain-Astounding Captain Astounding] as '''Dr. Druid''' ([http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?760750-FASERIP-Avengers-Some-Assembly-Required&p=19178378#post19178378 FASERIP]/ICONS AE) |
[http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?114784-Dogr_Dollarsson Dogr_Dollarsson] as '''Titanium Man''' ([http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?760750-FASERIP-Avengers-Some-Assembly-Required&p=19258097#post19258097 FASERIP]/ICONS AE) | [http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?114784-Dogr_Dollarsson Dogr_Dollarsson] as '''Titanium Man''' ([http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?760750-FASERIP-Avengers-Some-Assembly-Required&p=19258097#post19258097 FASERIP]/ICONS AE) | ||
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[http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?159021-drreamscape drreamscape] as '''Wasp''' (inactive) | [http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?159021-drreamscape drreamscape] as '''Wasp''' (inactive) | ||
− | [http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?4541-Fred Fred] as '''Thor''' ([http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?760750-FASERIP-Avengers-Some-Assembly-Required&p=19178773#post19178773 FASERIP]) and '''Gray Hulk''' ([ | + | [http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?4541-Fred Fred] as '''Thor''' ([http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?760750-FASERIP-Avengers-Some-Assembly-Required&p=19178773#post19178773 FASERIP]) and '''Gray Hulk''' ([https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?760750-FASERIP-Avengers-Some-Assembly-Required&p=19883745#post19883745 FASERIP]) |
[https://forum.rpg.net/member.php?62442-GetterBurai GetterBurai] as '''Tigra''' ([https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?760750-FASERIP-Avengers-Some-Assembly-Required&p=19880357#post19880357 FASERIP]) | [https://forum.rpg.net/member.php?62442-GetterBurai GetterBurai] as '''Tigra''' ([https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?760750-FASERIP-Avengers-Some-Assembly-Required&p=19880357#post19880357 FASERIP]) | ||
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* Troubled American scientist '''Henry Pym''' loses his wife Maria at the hands of secret police on a trip to her native Hungary. Pym, deeply affected and suffering a psychotic break as a result of his lifelong schizophrenia vows to find some way to battle man's descent into inhumanity. | * Troubled American scientist '''Henry Pym''' loses his wife Maria at the hands of secret police on a trip to her native Hungary. Pym, deeply affected and suffering a psychotic break as a result of his lifelong schizophrenia vows to find some way to battle man's descent into inhumanity. | ||
* British psychiatrist '''Anthony Ludgate''' takes perhaps the most important step in his quest to learn the secrets of the druids when he travels paradoxically to Tibet to study under '''the Ancient One'''! | * British psychiatrist '''Anthony Ludgate''' takes perhaps the most important step in his quest to learn the secrets of the druids when he travels paradoxically to Tibet to study under '''the Ancient One'''! | ||
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* Proving her underestimated deductive skills, Pym is caught by Vernon's daughter '''Janet van Dyne'''. Despite Hank's protests she insists she be allowed to participate in stopping the Kreature that killed her father. Folding to her forceful personality, Hank invests her with insect wings and antennae and gives her a pair of energy blasting gloves as the Winsome '''Wasp'''! | * Proving her underestimated deductive skills, Pym is caught by Vernon's daughter '''Janet van Dyne'''. Despite Hank's protests she insists she be allowed to participate in stopping the Kreature that killed her father. Folding to her forceful personality, Hank invests her with insect wings and antennae and gives her a pair of energy blasting gloves as the Winsome '''Wasp'''! | ||
* Ant-Man and the Wasp defeat the Kreature, becoming some of the first public heroes of the new age. | * Ant-Man and the Wasp defeat the Kreature, becoming some of the first public heroes of the new age. | ||
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===2011=== | ===2011=== | ||
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* The Ultron prototype disappears mysteriously. | * The Ultron prototype disappears mysteriously. | ||
* Discovering in his studies that the Ancient One had mesmerised him to be a potential stand in should the Sorceror Supreme fall, Dr. Ludgate grows livid. He resolves henceforth he will show the Ancient One, and his favoured student '''Dr. Strange''' the true power of his ancestors. Anthony officially changes his surname to "Druid", then hypnotises everyone of importance including his own family to believe it had always been so. | * Discovering in his studies that the Ancient One had mesmerised him to be a potential stand in should the Sorceror Supreme fall, Dr. Ludgate grows livid. He resolves henceforth he will show the Ancient One, and his favoured student '''Dr. Strange''' the true power of his ancestors. Anthony officially changes his surname to "Druid", then hypnotises everyone of importance including his own family to believe it had always been so. | ||
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===2012=== | ===2012=== | ||
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* The Avengers defeat '''Heinrich Zemo''' and his '''Masters of Evil''', unfortunately leading to his accidental death. | * The Avengers defeat '''Heinrich Zemo''' and his '''Masters of Evil''', unfortunately leading to his accidental death. | ||
* The Mavis Druid Institute for Parapsychology is opened in Midwich England; founder '''Dr. Druid''' vows to help the next generation see the world with new eyes. | * The Mavis Druid Institute for Parapsychology is opened in Midwich England; founder '''Dr. Druid''' vows to help the next generation see the world with new eyes. | ||
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===2013=== | ===2013=== | ||
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* With Giant Man having been handily defeated in the battle against Kang, Hank retires the identity, becoming '''Goliath'''! | * With Giant Man having been handily defeated in the battle against Kang, Hank retires the identity, becoming '''Goliath'''! | ||
* Seeing the media attention around the Avengers, Dr. Druid resolves they are the perfect way to show Strange who the world's greatest mystic is. | * Seeing the media attention around the Avengers, Dr. Druid resolves they are the perfect way to show Strange who the world's greatest mystic is. | ||
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===2014=== | ===2014=== | ||
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* Seeing the need to have better forewarning of potential world ending events, S.H.I.E.L.D hires Dr. Druid to help them train their budding Psi Division. | * Seeing the need to have better forewarning of potential world ending events, S.H.I.E.L.D hires Dr. Druid to help them train their budding Psi Division. | ||
* The Galactus event broke Hank, he fell ever further into psychosis then disappears. | * The Galactus event broke Hank, he fell ever further into psychosis then disappears. | ||
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* Dashing new hero '''Yellowjacket''' emerges! He claims he will give the world a hero they could be proud of and resolves to join the Avengers. Having created a dangerous stunt to convince the Avengers they needed him, Yellowjacket is revealed as Hank Pym and sent to a secure psychiatric facility for rehabilitation. | * Dashing new hero '''Yellowjacket''' emerges! He claims he will give the world a hero they could be proud of and resolves to join the Avengers. Having created a dangerous stunt to convince the Avengers they needed him, Yellowjacket is revealed as Hank Pym and sent to a secure psychiatric facility for rehabilitation. | ||
* Banner successfully separates himself from the Hulk. The now Banner-less Hulk went on a rampage through New Mexico, while Banner became terminally ill. The Avengers stop the Hulk and the Green Goliath and Banner are reunited, but interference from General Ross and Rick Jones leads to the return of the gray Hulk. | * Banner successfully separates himself from the Hulk. The now Banner-less Hulk went on a rampage through New Mexico, while Banner became terminally ill. The Avengers stop the Hulk and the Green Goliath and Banner are reunited, but interference from General Ross and Rick Jones leads to the return of the gray Hulk. | ||
* Dr. Druid helps the Avengers overcome the influence of the '''Controller''' and earns membership. | * Dr. Druid helps the Avengers overcome the influence of the '''Controller''' and earns membership. | ||
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===2015=== | ===2015=== | ||
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* Discovering there are still gamma bombs in existence, Hulk join forces with Rick Jones and a SHIELD agent to find and destroy them. The Leader, who was stockpiling the bombs, detonates one of them and the Hulk seemingly die. | * Discovering there are still gamma bombs in existence, Hulk join forces with Rick Jones and a SHIELD agent to find and destroy them. The Leader, who was stockpiling the bombs, detonates one of them and the Hulk seemingly die. | ||
* Tigra travels to California following reports of a werewolf on the rampage, and meets '''Spider-Woman'''. | * Tigra travels to California following reports of a werewolf on the rampage, and meets '''Spider-Woman'''. | ||
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* The Avengers defeat the combined menace of the '''Mandarin''' and the dragon '''Fin Fang Foom'''. | * The Avengers defeat the combined menace of the '''Mandarin''' and the dragon '''Fin Fang Foom'''. | ||
* The Avengers are drawn into the Great Galactic War. They are ultimately victorious, but not without cost (including the deaths of '''Captain Mar-Vell''' and '''Medusa the Inhuman'''). | * The Avengers are drawn into the Great Galactic War. They are ultimately victorious, but not without cost (including the deaths of '''Captain Mar-Vell''' and '''Medusa the Inhuman'''). | ||
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* Under orders to stay out the Galactic War for the sake of his mental health, Hank forsakes the life of superheroism, declaring to the world he will henceforth just be '''Dr. Pym'''! | * Under orders to stay out the Galactic War for the sake of his mental health, Hank forsakes the life of superheroism, declaring to the world he will henceforth just be '''Dr. Pym'''! | ||
* Having served with relative distinction Dr. Druid is changed by the Galactic War. He seems erratic. | * Having served with relative distinction Dr. Druid is changed by the Galactic War. He seems erratic. | ||
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* Late in the year Druid is found in the Avengers laboratory having incapacitated '''Fabian Stankowicz''', who he had been controlling to aid him in building an as-yet partially complete Singularity Bomb, claiming it was his plan to make it the payload on a missile to keep the Earth safe from invasion. When he lashes out at the team a fight ensues and he is knocked into his half completed bomb; he dies, but once again Captain Marvel with some aid is able to spare the world destruction. | * Late in the year Druid is found in the Avengers laboratory having incapacitated '''Fabian Stankowicz''', who he had been controlling to aid him in building an as-yet partially complete Singularity Bomb, claiming it was his plan to make it the payload on a missile to keep the Earth safe from invasion. When he lashes out at the team a fight ensues and he is knocked into his half completed bomb; he dies, but once again Captain Marvel with some aid is able to spare the world destruction. | ||
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* A mourning '''Black Bolt''' abdicates his throne and embarks on a journey to reconsider his future. | * A mourning '''Black Bolt''' abdicates his throne and embarks on a journey to reconsider his future. | ||
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* As part of post-war armistice, the Avengers expand their charter to include outpost divisions among numerous world cities. | * As part of post-war armistice, the Avengers expand their charter to include outpost divisions among numerous world cities. | ||
* The Hulk is re-recruited for the Avengers. | * The Hulk is re-recruited for the Avengers. | ||
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* Avengers (re-)Assemble! | * Avengers (re-)Assemble! | ||
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=='''Story Arcs'''== | =='''Story Arcs'''== | ||
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==='''Karma'''=== | ==='''Karma'''=== | ||
Traditionally, Karma serves the double-purpose of being both an in-game resource and an advancement resource, which leads to somewhat crappy situations where the characters that need Karma least are the ones using it for advancement. I propose that there be two separate pools of Karma - one normal pool for use in-game, and one of "spent" Karma which then becomes available to be used for advancement. This encourages heroes to be heroic, and I think fits the genre better than hoarding Karma. | Traditionally, Karma serves the double-purpose of being both an in-game resource and an advancement resource, which leads to somewhat crappy situations where the characters that need Karma least are the ones using it for advancement. I propose that there be two separate pools of Karma - one normal pool for use in-game, and one of "spent" Karma which then becomes available to be used for advancement. This encourages heroes to be heroic, and I think fits the genre better than hoarding Karma. | ||
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=='''Karma Awards'''== | =='''Karma Awards'''== | ||
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Druid and Moony: 155 for each of you, plus 25 for each of you for rescuing Arnie, plus another 25 when Dr. Strange removes his tumor via your actions. | Druid and Moony: 155 for each of you, plus 25 for each of you for rescuing Arnie, plus another 25 when Dr. Strange removes his tumor via your actions. | ||
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