I would be interested in a Heroes Unlimited game, but I am not sure what you mean by the 70's to 90's comic. How does it differ from today's comics ?

I can't really answer that question without writing an essay.

Best I can do is to recommend you go read Marv Wolfman's Teen Titans and/or Chris Claremont's X-Men to get the vibe I'm talking about.

Claremont's X-Men run is probably my favorite of all time. I don't have the DM chops to tackle this kind of game, but I would also be highly interested in participating.

I agree its hard to capture Claremont's x-men vibe without an essay.

And, I might be interested in running something that could match what's wanted. But, because the vibe of Claremont's x-men has so many elements, it might be hard to capture the most important elements Exwrestler, Choomie and maybe others would want in a game.

As a quick digression, and to establish where my biases are, I was almost exclusively a Marvel comics fan in the 1970's and 1980's as a kid/teenager. Not all of Marvel, mind, but I didn't really get into reading DC until I was almost in my 30s. My most favorite titles from the 1970's to 1980's were, in order of importance to me: Englehart's run on Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts; Claremont's X-men run; Frank Miller's relatively short run on Daredevil, and the various writers/artists on Iron man through the end of the Armor Wars storyline.

I didn't become aware of Wolfram's Teen Titans until I watched the first animated Teen Titans with my kids, and got introduced to the Trigon storyline and Deathstroke, etc. I never went back and read the original, so I don't have any inkling what made that story special to its fans.

So, from that basis, here's what stands out to me as important elements of that era, not in any particular order:

• Melodrama among the heroes
• Flawed characters - they seemed to my young mind to be 3 dimensional because of their foibles, idosyncracies, and flaws
• Stakes both personal and setting threatening
• Frenetic reveals of heretofore unknown backstory (note: unknown to me, who was reading these stories for the first time)
• Epic villians, who have plans and the means to enact those plans
• Scenery chewing superhero brawls, with the heroes usually getting their butts kicked right up until the last moment
• Rapid setting expansion (galactic empires? extra dimensional threats? etc - again, all new/expansionist to me as I didn't read, for instance, Fantasic Four)

Does this jive with what you'd want in a game? Or, if there are other distilled important bits you'd want to see, what are those?

Would you want an established comic book setting (e.g. Marvel or DC), or a published roleplaying seeting (e.g. Freedomverse), or homebrewed just for this game?

If an established setting, would you want to play a published character (e.g. Cyclops) or an original character?

First let say our comic fan history is very similar (I graduated high school in 1989 and was what we used to call a Marvel Zombie, meaning I read every Marvel Comic they published and hardly read other at all).

I highly recommend you get your hands on Wolfman's Teen Titan's run because it is the only comic that will give you the same feeling you got from Claremont's X-Men in the 80s. That sort of half soldiers/half family vibe that pulls you in and makes you actually care about the characters as much as you care about the struggle they are in to do good in the world.

So your take on the vibe I'm looking for is very, very close to dead on. For purposes of RPOL I'll call it perfect.

I'm willing to flex to what the GM wants to do as far as setting but I will say that modern comics and most rpgs simply have too many supers in them. The reaction the whole world had to Mutants in the 80s would never happen in a world with fourteen supermen running around. In those days though someone half as strong as Colossus could still be a major character and make national governments nervous.

If the motivation is there to make a world from scratch that would peak my enthusiasm.

I very much prefer making and playing original characters even in stock settings. Even when those characters may be thinly veiled homages to existing heroes.

Thanks for the response. Hope we can get something going.

Exwrestler, excellent. Thank you for the quick and complete response. I do not do too much comic collecting, and I will look for the Wolfram Teen Titans in a collected edition (there has got to be a trade paperback / trade paperbacks of it, certainly).

I'm new to RolePlay onLine, so unsure of the rules of hashing out potential game related content in this thread. Can I send you an rMail (which, if I understand it, is a private message for this forum)?

Absolutely! RMail away.

I would be interested in something like this, especially if it's run in Mutants and Masterminds.

I'd be interested in this as well.  I'm really new to M&M, but if you wouldn't mind helping create the character then I'd love to be in the game.

I'm not new to the system, although I have a lot less actual play experience than I would like. I would be happy to help people build and validate their characters, take some of the burden off the GM in that department.

I would also be interested in a M&M or Champions game with a setting like this.

Would you be interested in a freeform superhero game set in a virtual world?

Given that Gruagach's efforts fell through, safe to say we're all still looking.

If interested in Freeform I have a long running adult  game?

I'm a lot more experienced and comfortable with crunchier systems. I think OP is too.

I'm more familiar with crunchier systems also.  I was brought up on AD&D 2nd Edition and HERO Games Champions.

Throwing my hat into the arena here for a potential hero campaign. Good for M&M, would need some guidance on champions but I don't doubt I could pick it up if necessary.

 Would prefer to be a player vs GM.

Is anyone interested in running for us?  It sounds like you have the beginnings of a group if you do.

I've been workshopping a potential off-rails villain campaign in the background but I don't know if I have the emotional energy to actually run it.

I would love playing in a Superhero campaign! I was part of a few Marvel Heroic games, but they imploded. Bronze Age Comics are my “love language”! lol Especially Claremont’s X-Men and New Mutants, his Spider-Woman run, the Defenders, the Justice League, Legion of Super-Heroes, and I’m a lifelong fan of Wolfman & Perez’ New Teen Titans!

Anyone interested in trying the new marvel multiverse system?

Marvel Multiverse is a system that really does not want to be played. No digital edition and filled with in-jokes. That said, I've been curious to try it.

I found a digital version, though it might be bootleg.

Seems like an interesting system. Certainly some influence from 5e, has flavors from the old Faserip edition. Relatively simple/intuitive rules from what I’m seeing. Still reading through it.

Yeah I have an OCRed scan myself.

I'm part of an online library and they've got a copy of the core book.