The 'WHAT IF? Marvel' RPG - SIgn up thread

[guitarsingerguy]

I know i just love that smilie

 

[Eddie Brock]

Ok, sorry about that...didn't know that the ball was in my court.

That plus Spider-Man 3.

 

[Matt Murdock]

Haha, Spidey 3 threw off my RPG playing.

 

[Noon]

Nobody is to say ANYTHING about Spidey 3, I will actually hunt you down and KILL YOU if you do.

I can't see it til Saturday

 

[Byrd Man]

Nobody is to say ANYTHING about Spidey 3, I will actually hunt you down and KILL YOU if you do.

I can't see it til Saturday

Well. Aunt May dies while ****ing Harry Osborn....oops.

 

[Cyrusbales]

so....we moving this on some more people?

 

[Matt Murdock]

Yes, sir.

I just gave back the punisher.

 

[Cyrusbales]

erm......i don't play the punisher anymore.... oops!

We needed a Jean grey!

However my mastermind is creating a team of super intelligent villains......

 

[Matt Murdock]

He should enlist spidey.

 

[Cyrusbales]

well he wants all the great villanous minds, so Doc Ock, then Doctor Doom perhaps, and some more, all the people attributed with mass intelligence

 

[Matt Murdock]

So now I'm dumb?

:-P

 

[Cyrusbales]

well spidey isn't on doctor doom.mr fantastic intelligence level :P

 

[Matt Murdock]

Why're you enlisting a character that nobody's playing?

 

[Cyrusbales]

I'm enlisting an entire team....... some PC, some NPC....


New Jean Grey post, here comes the beep.....

 

[Matt Murdock]

gotcha

 

[guitarsingerguy]

I'm enlisting an entire team....... some PC, some NPC....


New Jean Grey post, here comes the beep.....

Cute. Gambit's gonna be so out of his league.

 

[Cyrusbales]

I'm gonna probe your entire mind shortly, don't worry, it'll only take a sec..... lol

 

[Eddie Brock]

Ok, after reading SSF's latest SS post, I really want each season to be stand-alone. I want to see some definite closure on the Spider-Man story...whether it's a happy ending or otherwise.

Besides, we can all come up with, like, 5 different What If?'s for any given character. It should be a crime to not use them all.

 

[Matt Murdock]

In that case the Seasons are going to need to be extremely long.

 

[Eddie Brock]

In that case the Seasons are going to need to be extremely long.

Probably...but doesn't it make more sense this way?

 

[Matt Murdock]

It would work either way. I personally would prefer having season to season continuity work, but with the what if changing whenever the player wanted it to.

 

[Eddie Brock]

It would work either way. I personally would prefer having season to season continuity work, but with the what if changing whenever the player wanted it to.

But you can't change the What If? without affecting everyone.

For instance, say someone wants to re-write Sue's What If?

Then my Dr. Doom What If? has no point because Sue never married Namor.

It's the Butterfly Effect, man.

 

[Matt Murdock]

Not necessarily. If a What-if was discontinued with a character, all the player would have to do would be to write a detailed explanation in an incharacter post of why the what if no longer applied.

For some, like Spider-Man and Ben Reilly, it's as simple as losing a symbiote.

For Iron Man, he could build in a failsafe to his Iron Man suits and then utilize it at the right time.

The what-if wouldn't apply, but the repercussions of the what if would.

 

[Cyrusbales]

well we'll take a vote on it when we reach the end of the season, which is a long way off people!

 

[Eddie Brock]

well we'll take a vote on it when we reach the end of the season, which is a long way off people!

That may be true...but it changes how you write the character towards the end of the season.

If it IS an ongoing thing, then you can plan for cliffhangers and you can do an arc to set you up for Season II.

But if it's not, you need to know so you can prepare to write an ending that brings closure to the character,

So I think the vote has to occur towards the end, but with a reasonable amount of time so that if we go with the latter option, people have time to end whatever arc they are in and write the conclusion for their character.