did you guys roll for stats, origin and powers as prescribed in the MSH books or did you reverse engineer characters from pre-existing concepts?
There are actually three ways to create characters in FASERIP:
- Imagine an original hero, describe him, and throw some stats together based on common sense
- Roll a guy randomly
- Pick an existing hero with stats, like Spider-Man or Wolverine
On Saturday, Sternum went with method 1, basically saying, "I wanna play the Green Mantis, who is like Shang-Chi, The Master of Kung-Fu, except he has a different costume. And he has a mob contact, Candace Pantaglione—a/k/a Candy Pants!" So we talked a bit about what a super martial artist ought to be able to do - some wire-fu climbing or jumping, maybe a paralyzing strike - and just went with it.
In contrast IO went full random, leading to a guy who has better hand-to-hand fighting skills than anyone in the world, yet is clumsy and weak. But with incredible hunches! We determined he had some kind of accident involving the time-stream, giving him the ability to anticipate others' moves in a fight as well as having dim premonitions of what he should pay attention to, and thus the Chrononaut was born! In play we couldn't exactly reconcile his Sonic Control power, so I'm cool if IO wants to convert it to a Time Control type of thing "as his chronometric powers stabilize."
I do have some pre-gens which, if nobody wants 'em, I'm using as villains. Starspanner and Paper Tiger are examples of these.
