I tend to run games very much in the vein of X-men and Alpha Flight, so my version of Days of Future Past always makes an appearance, and the games usually progresses from that.

Quote from: Bill;579101I bet Doom would ignore Ghost riders 'pennace' stare as well.

In Supervillain team up, Doom faced off against Magneto (he took over the world with some kind of gas, but wanted a challenge, and freed Magneto, so he could challenge him). Ghost Rider got involved (as part of the Champions), and blasted Doom (the gas had no effect on his demon form), and it did hurt Doom (and supposedly his Soulfire/Hellfire burns the soul but originally only hurt evildoers), so that must be a sort of retcon (or the story where GR hurt Doom was a mistake on the part of the writers for that specific story)

I think both my superhero campaigns have been too large to really answer questions as general as those planted by the OP. I might be able to answer more specific questions, though, if anyone cares.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;579762I think both my superhero campaigns have been too large to really answer questions as general as those planted by the OP. I might be able to answer more specific questions, though, if anyone cares.

I'll bite.

What's your first session on a supers campaign like?

Quote from: The Butcher;579764I'll bite.

What's your first session on a supers campaign like?

Well, remember I only ever ran two supers campaigns in my entire career; but both have been very long epic campaigns and huge successes.  The Legion game (now done) lasted over 6 years. The Golden Age is at about a year now and will likely continue to run several years more.

In the Legion campaign, the first adventure ever involved most of the PCs already being members of the Legion (all PCs were Legionnaire), except for one of them (Sun Boy) who was trying out for membership.  And the first session was basically about that, about his try-out and his initial failure until he discovered the extent of his own powers. It was basically a "starting small" setup, the legion was still very new (about a year old) and only had like 10 members. So it was the PCs and about 5 NPCs, and the whole focus was on them getting to know each other, these initial NPCs, and the world of the 30th century.

The villains started small too, space-mobsters I think, if I recall correctly.

In the golden age campaign, it was similar in the sense that I chose to start at the very beginning of the age of masked men.  There were maybe 3 or 4 mystery men aside from the PCs, and none of them had been doing it for even a year yet.  I had the PCs meet each other, and one guy who'd been around slightly longer than them (The Crimson Avenger and his sidekick, Wing), and stop some bank robbers who were using a fake Halloween broadcast about alien invaders as a cover to pull a big heist.

So in both campaigns, I started slow, and in each session one or two new characters were introduced, or some new aspect of the world, or something along those line. Working at this slow but steady pace you quickly build up a huge pantheon of NPCs, setting info, villains and everything else, but in a way that the players don't get overwhelmed at all.

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