I wrote this up while on the train. It is a 'bible' of the different power sources of the Omega Universe. Of course this isn't just my game and nothing becomes official until it actually shows up in play.. but these are some ideas I'm thinking of working with. If any of the people I game with are reading this, they may want to stop as the document contains potential spoilers of the game.

It has been a long standing question that you ask at parties. "If you could have any single super power what would it be?" Statistically the top choices are Flight, Invisibility, and some variation of Omniscience (ie. Know what women want, read the stockmarket, Be the world's greatest detective). My friends being what they are, the actual answers I've gotten tend to range a little further afield than that. The poll on the front page of this site reflects some of the variation from the last time I asked that question.

Over the years comic book (and other medium) characters have gained their powers through any number of sources. This is something that gets a lot of looking at in RPG books but is often glossed over in the source material. Generally a character's origin doesn't have a strong impact on who they hang out with except in certain cases. Magic seems to be the exception in that magic using characters often hang out together and there is a conceit that only magicians can properly battle magic threats.

Prime

Sometimes the universe just likes you. At the point of his 'death' Steve had the good fortune to be both psychically connected to his teammate who 'speaks computer' and wearing Omega's Gauntlet which had a direct satellite connection back to the Omicron computers. Powered by Current's mutant power his personality quickly overwrote the AI system and continued to overflow pretty much all the bases major systems (Including the Cryo tanks) until they shorted out. Highly disoriented, his subconscious attacked the deleted teleport buffers until it was able to pull enough data to materialize a (somewhat idealized) copy of his body out of the teleportation stream. His unique genetic makeup had sucked up the energy of the teleporter like a sponge. Now he exists in a constant state of half-teleportation, moving himself and others through those states at will.

Prime

Steven LeSueur.. aka. Prime woke up in a tube with a bunch of people who were apparently Superheroes. He'd grown up hearing tales but they had disappeared before he was old enough to know what that meant. Pretty soon he discovered that he was one of them.

Front Cover: The team is being dangled, each hanging onto the legs of the other over the giant open mouth of a dinosaur. "Is this the END of Omega?"

In our previous Episode: The team, encouraged by Prime and Megamorph, decided that it would be a good idea to open the mysterious box being transported by mysterious agents and fought over by dolphins on stilts. The open box revealed reknowned eco-terrorist "King Dolphin" who quickly went about threatening the end of the world and summoning a 100+ foot tall Gigantosaurus.

The Story Begins: Surrounded by ORION/ARTEMIS troops, a deal is quickly met which will send the armored ORION soldiers (plus CRUSADE) after King Dolphin while the rest of the team deal with the Gigantosaurus. Current, Prime, and Megamorph arrived to find Mayday taking repeated shots at the monster from the side of the Southwest Freeway Bridge (The Woodrow Wilson Bridge having already been taken out). Megamorph (being an NPC this game) quickly lept to the protection of the drivers on the bridge, using his stretchy powers to pull them all to safety.

Over the years I have had my fair share of interactions with superhero inspired worlds. I have played in the supers games a several game masters who either masterminded their own worlds(in the case of my current game) or adapted from existing source material(such as the game based on Byrne's Generations). I've read game settings that built off of these comic book worlds such as Aberrant and Freedom City. And the ratings indicate that just about everyone is familiar with NBC's Heroes.

I'm never happy with character sheets. It always feels like there is some other way to display the character just a little bit better. The attached file is my most recent attempt. The one thing no sheet can handle to my satisfaction is alternate forms.

Still, this one has all of the combat information laid out as well as the notes for Ultimate Skills and Skill Mastery but at the same time it is open ended enough that most concepts can be wedged into it.

I played my first Superhero game in 8th grade. Someone was running it as part of a field day get together thing for school. The game was Marvel Superheroes and I played Collosus. It was a fun little one shot and I'm a little sad that I never got into it further beyond reading the articles in Dragon Magazine.