X-Men with a SR Feel, Inspired by previous posts Options

[rlemansky]

Greetings.

I've read the previous posts on X-Men wannabes as SR players or gangs with some significant interest.

I'd been kicking around the idea of doing a X-Men campaign, with a Sinister spin to it.

I figured Xavier would be a youngish dragon trying to make a place for himself in the Sith World. He could recruit (read kidnap) young adepts and train them to further enhance specific abilities (or spells for the more sorcerous). That way, he'd have tailor made tools to use against his enemies.

Of course, he'd convince his 'charges' that they were Mutants, and that their powers were Genetic in nature as opposed to magikal (inspired by the Psionics bit in Awakenings). That way, when sent out on a mission to destroy a Mom and Pop Research Corp., they think that they're in the right-maybe the Corp's doing research on mutants or into mutant hunting weapons-whatever.

Ally spirits could round out much of the X-Cast if I was going for detail. Wolverine'd be an experiment (possibly on a Shapeshifter), sponsored by the dragon (a trite bit of irony, I know, but it has some appeal).

Since it's a dragon, I was also going to have him be the force behind the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants-another batch of adepts and spirits that directly oppose the X-Men. With a dragon's cunning, the plots that both groups hatch and foil would naturally further his ambitions.

If my players REALLY want to try the X-Thing, I think that'd give them an appropriate SR twist.

What do you think? Any input on adept abilities or spells for particular mutants? Maybe Juggernaut as a cyber-zombie...

R