What powers can I use in The Golden age? (1939 to 1950)

gaby · Unread post by **gaby** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:15 pm

What super powers can I use in the Golden Age? (1939 to 1950)

What number of Super-heroes and villains I can use in the same time?

Nekira Sudacne · Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:52 pm

wait a friken second.

all of them, why would it be any different then? :-?

gaby · Unread post by **gaby** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:17 pm

Well for Me.

All games set in Golden Age must have under 100 Heroes.

Me I only use 50.

The Villains must always OUTNUMBER the Heroes,I use 150 to 200 bad guys.

Marcantony · Unread post by **Marcantony** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:22 am

You could either use all of them or go by a generational increase in powers.

By this I mean if the first generation of heroes appear during WWII then they might only have 1 major or 2 minor powers each.
Then perhaps their children are born with 1 major and minor or 3 minor. And then their children with additional abilities and so on, with the amount they can have peaking with the current rules.

Sir_Spirit · Unread post by **Sir_Spirit** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 6:08 pm

Jaegermeister wrote:The first Human Torch (a robot with APS: Fire) that fought with Captain America and Namor came out in the Summer of 41. Technically, the "Golden Age" ended with the war in '45. Also, Plastic Man came out in '41.

Do you know what happened to his sidekick Toro?(He was a boy with APS:fire as well) It still bugs me that he never became the 2nd Human Torch, did he know the his mentor was a robot?

Nekira Sudacne · Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:48 pm

Jaegermeister wrote:
Nekira Sudacne wrote:wait a friken second.

all of them, why would it be any different then?

It seems you miss the "Golden Age" part. There is a difference between a "Golden Age" setting and a setting that takes place between 1939 and 1950.

not really. any powers. there is no "appropriate" or "not appropriate"

if your going to allow ANY superpower, might as well allow ALL

Overlord Rikonius · Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:57 pm

Nekira Sudacne wrote:
Jaegermeister wrote:
Nekira Sudacne wrote:wait a friken second.

all of them, why would it be any different then?

It seems you miss the "Golden Age" part. There is a difference between a "Golden Age" setting and a setting that takes place between 1939 and 1950.

not really. any powers. there is no "appropriate" or "not appropriate"

if your going to allow ANY superpower, might as well allow ALL

not if you're trying to capture a theme. IN the old days, superheroes were more primitive. It's like the tech for aliens.
Now logically, aliens that land on Earth could have the same level of tech if they land in the 1940's or 2000's. However, playing a pulp or golden age game will mean that your aliens have simpler, more innocent tech.
Laser guns and "death rays", flying saucers, giant computers with big flashing plastic buttons. Maybe a Gort style robot. And of course they'd have clear helmets with a single antenna on top

Powers are the same way. It's not a "when did super powers evolve" question, although that could be used as a rationale for staging it as the past for a modern campaign. It's a "what fits this style?" question.