The OP pic reminds me of an idea for a one piece RP...

Mantis Shrimp devil fruit. Gives you the power to turn into half mantis shrimp and PUNCH WITH THE FORCE OF THE SUNNNNNN.

Downsides: you can only breath underwater. And devil fruit users pass out if submerged.

The ability to slow the speed of the light that reflects off your person is one I haven't used before, but would like to try.

How's this: short range teleportation, which effectively works like time-rewinding yourself.
You can only teleport where you've recently been.

That's more like simple limitation, than interesting trapping. Might spice up the combat though, if you are trying to think ahead.

>JJBA; The Thread

I recently had an idea for a superpower that, if you entered its field of effect with an item it's currently restricting, you'd sink into the ground unless you got rid of it. Repeat "offenses" made you sink faster.

The power of rotation. The faster you spin the harder you hit. The strength of your attacks increases exponentially with the amount of rotations per minute, will you have victory over that villian? or will the massive ammounts of property damage and friendly fire spell your doom?

>>22013060
I like this one, blinking is awesome, Step Retracing Blink is awesome. you will always know where you've been, and it will likely be where you are going next!

hmm what about a super power that changes based on what you last ate? I summon the power of CRAB CAKES!
eat ICE CREAM evildoer!
I am THE CULINARY CRUSADER

I had this idea of a superpower that was basically about writing on one's skin. You then get a superpower determined by what was written. I'm not sure of how to limit this other than having every word be restricted to one use, though synonyms might have the same effect. But how long does every superpower last? I'm kinda thinking it should be until you fall asleep or until the writing fades, but then you'd just write that you didn't need sleep and keep filling it in. Maybe the writing fades by itself, given enough time. I'm kinda thinking that maybe it's just absorbed by the skin after awhile.

Invulnerable teeth, vulnerable everything else

>>22013060

Make is conserve momentum from your position in time? In low power games it would prevent stuff like negating fall damage.

hmm, How bout a technopath that can understand any machine, AFTER HE ACTIVATES IT! his powers are used to gather knowledge of machines and combine them into vast Rube Goldbergesque traps and tricks that criss cross the city of his residence.

>>22013252
>>22013181

Those are just quirky super powers. Unless you are 12 year old, they are not amusing.

>>22013203

I like this idea. I've got a simple way to solve your conundrum about the fading writing.

Make the character carve the power into his own skin. When the wound has healed, the power is gone. It stops him from changing powers too quickly and also makes it impossible for him to use the power of regeneration.

There's his weakness. Boom.

The ability to control ink, but only in two dimensions, so you can't make ink monsters. you can still change ink on paper though and make planes of ink in 3d space

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>>22013316

Then a nemezis traps and forces him to give himself the mark of vulnerability. With his would constantly re-opening, how will our hero rid himself of the curse?

Brilliant.

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>>22013203
Skin Wyrms that causes imense pain but make you stronger.
This is a SCP btw

The ability to change your appearance by getting rid of your skin. Beneath your skin you can have different shape and form, but you have to get rid of the old one somehow. Like, you have to cut yourself up whenever you want to change your appearance, leaving your old skin behind.

>>22013316
This in and of itself would make a cool game.

A group of players that all have this wound word power thing. They have to come up with cool words to use, and they can't use the same word twice. They'd have to think their way through shit, writing the words they think they'll need and hopefully not getting screwed over.

Me like.

I'm always daydreaming creating heroes for the Marvel universe. Here's one that I actually made in a dream.

The ability to create sudden bursts of photonic light that you can use to hypnotize people instantly. The bursts of light can also be used to burn people. Downside is that it uses up massive stamina, and makes you go blinder over time.

>>22013316
Thanks, that's a great idea. I think I'll roll with it.

>>22013398
I think there's an X-man with that power. I'm not too familiar with the X-men though, so I don't know for sure.

You have an ability to kinetically control your blood.
Using anti-coagulants and other preserving methods breaks the power.
You are not limited by your ability to re-generate blood.

What? Too edgy? Might be fun to deliberately dress up all emo, but play it straight and legit.

A power gained from the pervasive spirit of an ancient pirate ancester that causes your hero to suddenly become a swarthy swashbuckler who sings loudly in bars and ventures around the city with whatever scurvy crew he gathers to his charismatic presence. The catch? Your alter ego has no idea that he exists. Also, his arch nemesis is an evil scheming sea monster with a british accent who was cursed to take the sea monster form as a result of your piratical ancestor's misdeeds. He is constantly plotting your downfall, and most of his plans involve a roving band of angry sea turtles.

>>22013422
If there is then I haven't heard of it. Then again, I don't read X-men myself so I wouldn't know.

>>22013440
sounds like bloodquest....

>>22013440
should be
"you are NOW limited"

Super Catholic Crusader Hero.
Saves people and shit and partakes on some crusading against none Catholics on the side. Kills anti-Christian decadent scum, too.

By touching people you can trap them as 2-dimensional 'tattoos' on your body. Drawback is that they can still move around, meaning anyone who takes a good look at you will know there's something wrong instantly. They can also interact with each other. However, if you cover your skin and tattoo in barriers onto it then you can keep them in a small section on yourself without anyone having a clue.

Might get awkward when you're in the bathroom, if that sort of thing bothers you.

>>22013559
The ability to trap 'things' as well as people could be useful. Imagine him dropping a boat on someone from a skyscraper.

>>22013293
>implying they wouldn't start thinking with portals

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>>22013559

Oh god. Imagine someone breaking free when in tattoo form and creeping onto your face. Maybe even imposing their faces directly on yours.

Someone's face, tattooed on your face, trying to talk and scream for help.

I so want it made into a film.

>>22013060
Prince of Persia?

>>22013613

That cheesy anchor tattoo sailors get? Instant comical potential

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>>22013410

I just had a vision of the climax of the campaign. BBEG is about to wipe out everyone. As a last ditch you take a gamble, while the boss is changing into final form, you carve into your skin "reopen scars". You now have ever power you ever carved into your body, but you have until you die of blood lost to use them. Go out in a blaze of bloody glory.

>>22013613
I've actually had the idea of this guy as a high-level enforcer for a BBEG. He basically has a hammerspace on his skin, as well as a prison of sorts. He's tattooed black lines over his skin, sectioning it off. He's kinda limited by the size of the tattoo. It can't take up too much space and it can't be too small to make out what it is.

There's lots of fun, creepy and awesome shit that could be done with it, IMO.

>>22013700
I'm totally using this. It makes me happy how you guys can take a half-baked idea I had and make it way more awesome than it has any right to be.

THE ABILITY TO SHOOT BULLETS OUT OF YOUR BODY.

I MEAN LITERALLY OUT OF YOUR BODY.

YOU CAN SHOOT BULLETS OUT OF YOUR HAND AT SOMEBODY BUT THEN YOU HAVE ALSO LITERALLY JUST SHOT YOURSELF IN THE HAND.

>>22013701
I've had pretty much the same idea. Though my exact thought was "a dude who is also a bag of holding."

Lots of fun stuff you could do with that, especially if shit inside retained it's momentum and such.

>>22013745
What happens when you carve "Infinite Wishes" on your skin?

>>22013795
You die.

>>22013700
That's fucking awesome.

You'd have to take damage every time you carved something. And since writing "regeneration" just causes the scar to heal, everyone would have to play relatively squishy heroes.

Man, I really think this idea has potential.

(Bonus points: carving dyslexia into your own skin and forever misspelling your powers)

>>22013750
What if you shot them out of your orifices?

>>22013750

Really? Because I always wanted the super power to be able to shoot my entire skeleton out of my body by pointing and making a fingerbang motion.

If nothing else, it'll give pause to the forensics team.

>>22013795

Nothing happens as you already are granted infinite wishes. You just need to scribble them on your body first.

The real question to ask if its just limited to words. A word just represents something anyway.

What if someone got good at carving pictures and could be a summoner, eventually mourning when his pet direfox dies because his scar heals. Maybe these skin artists start by drawing lines and getting a sword that comes out the wound.

I don't really like the idea of tattoo working, although you are cutting your body. You couldn't use a tatto gun in combat so theirs that i guess.

>>22013422
Husk, she's Cannonball's little sister.

Reminds me of the short Darker Than Black game a few of my friends and I played a few years ago.

My chick had the ability to 'refill' containers. I mostly used it so I never had to properly reload my guns or buy beer, but I also once used it to keep my teammate from bleeding to death until he could be patched up.

My friend's power was that if he got any of his bodily secretions on to someone else he could control that part of their body. Like if he shook a guys hand he would be able to control that guys hand until the dead skin flakes got washed off. He also liked to spit in people eyes and make them go blind. The most memorable thing he did was probably giving a dude a blood transfusion so he could turn the guy into a puppet.

>>22013878
So wait, is this sort of just like Scribblenauts but way darker and more edgy?

"Maxwell! Summon a unicorn!"
"Yeah, sure."
*Wet, dripping noise*
"AAAAAAGH! OH GOD THE PAIN!"
"Neigh! Neigh!"

Doc Schrodinger: has the power to be everywhere at once, but immediately collapses if someone sees him. He could be sitting in his apartment watching football while simultaneously infiltrating a prison, but if a guard sees him he's stuck there (of course, he could opt to collapse back to his apartment, in which case the guard would never have seen him). The limitation is he can't teleport. Any number of versions he maintains have to make their way to their destinations from the last point at which Doc was collapsed.

Incompatible with any party for obvious, reasons. He is a BBEG who wants to destroy all sentient life so he can populate the Earth with clones.

>>22013312
Or if you are not imaginative enough.
For instance, how FAR does this power extend?
>>22013181
Playing the role of an assassin. You ate some kind of poison earlier. Not enough to kill you ofcourse... but since you can make an unlimited amount.

After you killed the diplomat you stole his golden ring, then swallowed it. You're rich now. Enjoy.

With all that money people couldn't understand why you took up that Flaming Sword Swallower class. Well now you are hurling any unlimited amount of flaming swords, at people. No only hilarious, but deadly, and anyone that encountered you couldn't possibly explain it if their boss.

The ability to split your skin and flesh, creating portals to an Eldritch universe on and within your own body. From these portals a number of unspeakable horrors will reach through, grab, attack, devour and destroy whatever that can get their hands on.

Drawback? The monsters are gonna try and get through, and you have no control over what they do. Also this happens any time a wound deep enough to draw blood is inflicted. On the bright side, closing the portal heals the wound.

http://www.comicvine.com/editor-girl/29-1794/

http://www.comicvine.com/dee-rail/29-9909/

Bomb Queen had some cool side characters for this kind of stuff.

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>>22013700

That would be glorious.

>>22013440
so deadman wonderland without the limitation of how much blood you have.

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The power of cartoon-ish ugliness. It's impossible to look at you, rendering your actions somewhat stealthy. Any photographic equipment will malfunction if you enter it's field of vision, and reflective surfaces will shatter. Milk will curdle in your gaze.

The irony is that this power is usually accompanied by no physical mutation, so you look perfectly normal. People will admit that they can't place what makes you so hideously ugly, but it doesn't change how they perceive you.

>>22013934
haha so the final fight would be the party constantly looking around the room franticly?

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>>22013203
>>22013316
>>22013410
>>22013700
>>22013961
Consider this idea stolen.

I've always been fond of invulnerability without any super strength, or indeed even above average human strength, to back it up.

Makes for an amusing face style hero, blithely disregarding the BBEG's slaughter cannon while trying to persuade him that really ruling the world isn't worth the effort.

>>22013934
So, he's kinda like a Weeping Angel mixed with a bit of Schrödinger's cat in terms of powers?

>>22014032

And his entire posse is composed of BBEGs that came before, which he managed to convince through sheer force of "You can't destroy me, so why bother with the rest of the world?"

>>22014016
I consider that to be success.

Pseudo-Flight, with the limitation that all you're really doing is changing the direction you fall in.

You can only lift so much that it doesn't out weigh your falling weight, though if you're lifting something only slightly heavier than yourself you can do some pretty awesome moon jumps.

Walking on walls is easy enough, but you'll have to be careful you don't fall through a window and strait out the other side of the building.

>>22014032

Me too. I guess it is some very, very basic wish fulfilment.
>Man, I would give this inconsiderate asshole piece of my mind, but what if he punches me? If only I was invulnerable.

Behold the new superhero in town. He will tell you what asshole you are and is not afraid of you. He is also a bit racist.

>>22014016
You better share it with /tg/, man.

I wanna play this shit.

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>>22014089
>He is also a bit racist.

>>22014085
Better chain yourself down when you sleep.

The ability to spontaneously grow a neckbear

>>22013934
so what if you see yourself?

>>22014091
Dunno in which form it will be shared. My old game group has been extremely busy on their ends (damn it for us getting out of college and into the real world). Kinda would like to see some writefaggotry or... wait for it... a quest featuring that power in some form or fashion.

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>>22014124
DO IT

>>22014059
I'm picturing a Darkseid expy just chucking his doomsday device on the floor and walking away in disgust because nothing he tries seems to have any effect on this guy.

>>22014057
Bit of the Silence in there, I think.

>>22014085
So you're really just changing the direction gravity pulls you in, but you can't affect the strength at which it pulls you? That sounds like it could be fun as hell; you're always just working on manipulating that same damned 9.81 ms^-2.

I want to play a videogame like that.

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>>22014155

>>22014179
It's almost definitely not what you had in mind, but what about Gravity Rush? Not exactly what you described, but it features manipulation of gravity as a superpower. No idea if it's any good, though.

>>22014179
Pretty much yeah, you'd have to be pretty careful about landing as well, kinda slow your fall by switching back and forth between falling up and down to cancel out your momentum.

>>22014179
So, you pretty much want Mirror's Edge crossed with VVVVVV?

>>22013511
Gets his powers from raping choir boys.

>>22014131
Because an electron in a wave function can interact with itself (see the double-slit experiment), seeing himself would have no effect on Doc Schrodinger.

>>22014157
And the Master too, for that matter.

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>>22013934

This has potential.

>>22014143
They'd be kinda cool as cultists in Call of Cthulhu.

Carve things into their skin, become super villains at the cost of their sanity.

Or as player characters in some sort of superhero game.

Or both.

Superskincultheros: The Reckoning

Power is Only Skin Deep (tm)

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Epideromancy, bitches. Unknown Armies already has your self mutilating superheroes under control.

Eye-based powers are fun. How about someone who otherwise looks and acts normal, until she locks eyes with yours. And when I say lock, I damn well mean it. Your eyes can't move away until she chooses not to look at you anymore. So, what happens if this person - let's call her Visage - moves her head? Your eyes move with her line of sight, which means that you move with her line of sight. A flick of her head after locking eyes, and you go flying, eyes first. Not exactly ripping your eyes out, more like her looking into your eyes creates a gorgon-like effect of freezing you in place, minus the petrification, and the movement of her gaze thereafter moving your whole body.

Of course, the usual array of eye-based weaknesses apply. Blinking, blindness, permanent eye damage, various forms of obfuscation, and the like would render Visage's power all but useless. But imagine putting her in a social situation or, better yet, an intimate one.

Enjoy.

>>22014379
Huh. That's neat, might check it out.

>>22014404
>But imagine putting her in a social situation or, better yet, an intimate one.

No, thanks. I don't have control/hypnosis/petrification fetish.

>>22014404
Doc Schrodinger's arch-nemesis!

A guy with the ability to subtly manipulate the laws of probability in his favor. The problem is, that you have to balance it out, or something of an opposite probability can occur. For example, let's say someone shoots you, and you manipulate the spread of the bullet slightly, turning a highly likely occurrence (getting shot) into a less likely one. (a narrow miss) However, as punishment 'for breaking mathematical law, the opposite reaction will sometimes occur. Something highly unlikely will shift to a high probability of happening. For example, getting attacked by a shark or getting hit by lightning is relatively improbable, but the odds shift to the negative outcome. Basically, you might be able to dodge a bullet, but the next time it rains you might get struck by lightning. It becomes a karmic balance. Same goes for if you try gambling. You could break the bank at a casino, an improbable act, but to restore balance something probable must become improbable. Let's say you're injured and call an ambulance. Normally it would arrive in time, but in your case, it breaks down.

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>>22014404
That reminds me of this. Ignore those other freaks and focus on Cyclops. His eyes are pretty much glowing balls of energy that are slowly disintegrating his skull and making his skin somewhat translucent as a result. There's a description ti this pic, but I'm not sure where I found it to begin with.

>>22014495
So, karma's a bitch, eh?

>>22014495
As a hero: this guy would be a sort of doomed hero, essentially racking up a line of karmic credit knowing full well he will eventually have an aneurysm.
As a BBEG: this guy has to kill people with his power to refill his karma bank; he targets lottery winners, survivors of plane crashes, etc.

>>22014495
I like this guy. He could probably get past the invincible guy with enough probability-rape, but with utterly catastrophic consequences.

Somebody needs to write a comic revolving around the characters in this thread. I will volunteer, if a willing drawfriend emails me.

>>22014495

This could be hilarious with a random encounter table/hilarious DM.

"You dodge the bullet and take down the bad guy."
"Sweet.'
"As you walk back home it begins to rain."
"Aight. I pull out my umbrella."
*GM rolling*
"Did I mention it was raining baboons?"

>>22013066
YOU ARE A DRILL, GOOD SIR.

>>22014404
>>22014471
Should we have a name for her? How about Lady Medusa or Gorgon? Narcissa? Though, since she's not playing the part of Narcissus I guess she could be Nemesis.

>>22014656
I gave her the name Visage already.

>>22014660
Ah, that's right. I'm tired and got carried away.

>>22014603
Agreed.

They need names.

Can the karma guy be called "4 Leaf Clover Man"?

Or something that is actually humourous.

>>22013700

So i drew a comic of a sweet combo you could pull off with skin scar ability. It's involved free style rapping and a record needle recording what you rap so that it would happen.

The only problem is that I don't have a camera good enough to take a picture of the comic as its on paper.

:(

I played in a Champions game where I had a character named Quantum. She basically had melded with some sort of (gravitational?) singularity that caused a field to form around her that disrupted the way reality as we know it works from time to time. The field had to be minded on some level or it space around her could go really nuts. She was able to extend that energy outward as a beam attack that, in simpler terms, disassembled and reassembled things that it passed through. That beam attack was written up as a Stun only ranged energy attack but I don't remember if had an NND or not.

There was this one time a villain fired an energy beam at the field and it skated the perimeter, continuing on the other side only to disperse into a cloud of butterflies...

There was also a transformation attack that took a lot of time or the final product wouldn't be a proper representation. Anyway, some of the weirdness that came with it was also an enemy from the past who claimed she had fought him in her future, because you know, time travel and shit.

>>22014686
Richard "Rich" Emerson, aka Roulette.

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The Troll

Fueled by the rage of others, his powers can change the laws of physics in order to benefit himself (iron backpack + magnet = fight shit). Noodly arms for stealing, poking, goosing and dodging attacks. Lives to cause chaos and annoyance. Constantly spouts memes and "You mad bro?"

Can only be killed by starvation or the mystic Ban Hammer, an ancient weapon of the gods. Sadly the Ban Hammer has been lost for centuries.

Pic very related. Can your party handle it?

>>22014513
Who the fuck is the MMA douche nozzle suppposed to be?

>>22014731

Ok I have the panels all pictured individually on my computer. Anyone know how to combine 6 pictures into one? I have stuff like gimp and photoshop, but I never know how big to make the canvas to copy paste everything onto.

I hope that this will bring you gentlemen some guffaqs

>>22014736
>Roulette
I could see him developing a sort of gambling problem. He spends his luck in the casinos and wins big, only to lose it all when karma sets in.

>>22014735

I don't quite remember the write up of the main power but I'm pretty sure it was a variable powerpool that had a zero phase change advantage. I talked to the GM and took a conditional no conscious control on it. It was outlined the situations where the GM could come up with random shit that happened with the field. In fact, every time a skill check was failed by the character during activation, there was a chance something weird would happen and it was the GM's call on what it was. It might even be a partial success on activation. Missile deflection could suddenly add dice to the incoming attack for instance.

I play in a Mutant & Masterminds campaign as a guy who's only real power is a Cloning. The way I play him, he is basically immortal, but the downside is, he dies over and over and has to deal with the strain of death on his psyche every mission.
4 times.
On a good day.

>>22014803
Pretty sure that's Beast. Yeah, I know, he looks some Zangief knockoff.

>>22014826
... except the Beast isn't about being the team's strong guy.

He's the teams SMART GUY!

>>22014815
X-men did that already.

I was trying to imagine a hero who would actually need to carry around survival gear with him. I came up with a guy who has limited time travel ability(like a day or two in either direction) and only travels in relation to the Earth's core. Like if he traveled 12 hours into the past he would be in his position on the opposite side of the globe. So if say he wanted to change some big event he would have to time travel and then race to the location before the event occurred. On a smaller scale he could jump back a few seconds and be a few meters west of where he was. I guess to everyone else it would just look like he was teleporting from where he was seconds before teleporting to where ever he ends up.

You could play around with how far in time he could go and the size and rotation of the globe depending on the setting.

You can rearrange your muscles to a limited degree. This means you could move muscles from your calf to your arms to boost its strength for example. You can also shield yourself from hits with your muscles (they still hurt but at least you don't break bones.

It probably makes you look pretty fucking horrific and comes with the downside of not being able to use your muscles for their original purpose.

>>22014844
Why doesn't he just travel 24 hours?

>>22014855
I'm picturing a 3.5 Twisted Lord.

>>22014731
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I beg of you, dear friend, please try your best.

>>22014736
Awesome.

>>22014471
I would love to see the fight between them. Other than her eye-fuckery, Visage doesn't really have any other powers.

>>22014876
>>22014844
I hope he's wearing a parachute. If he went back 24 hours he would be 1.6million miles above the earth, because of the speed of earth's orbit.

>>22014937
His weakness is he can only go back or forward in time in increments of about 1 year.

>>22014855
Guy would be probably a really good escape artist too.

I wonder how long would it take to kill himself with this stuff, experimenting just how far the transformations can go and somehow dislocating his guts or heart or something.

>>22014937
If that's the case, he probably couldn't even go back a minute, let alone 12 hours.

>>22014937
He moves relative to the Earth's center of mass. So orbital shit isn't a problem, but Earth's rotation is.

>>22014876
Because plot devices? Wasn't really sure, but I liked the idea of random teleportation.

>>22014937
I guess it'd have to be on the Earth's surface, he'd also end up inside mountains and over valleys.

>>22014495
longshot already exists, though he has some other stuff attached to it

>>22014934
Would her powers really affect him? Couldn't he just collapse back to some some other version of himself?

>>22014990
Every power already 'exists' somewhere. The interesting part of this guy is that he draws on basically a pool of cosmic debt, with likely hilarious results.

>>22015014
Wasn't there an X-Men character or something named Shamrock that used dead Irish warriors to increase her luck?
Different, obviously, but I like the idea of irish ghosts channeling luck.

>>22015046
Yes.

...

She retired and became a hairdresser.

>>22014997
The limit on his power is that he has to pay attention to each clone individually. This overextending of his consciousness has driven him somewhat insane, and it places a limit on how many clones he can reasonably have at one time. If they chase him down vigorously enough, he might be in a position where he can't collapse into another location.

>>22015046
If you want a more heroic example, try Domino.

>>22015014
longshot got equal & opposite bad luck if he pushes it. but yeah, a character with just that power & nothing else could be really cool

>>22015079
Domino is a massive BAMF.

>>22015014

Couldn't dude just build up a buffer? Make 10,000 highly likely events slightly more likely, so that you're banking improbability insurance. Now you never have to worry about that plane crash or that shark attack. You would be the ultimate bet hedger.

Also, how exactly would it function? Altering the spread of a bullet may be bending numbers to the breaking point, but what about altering the likelihood that you're shot at? It's already somewhat improbable at any given time, so all it takes is a minor tweak and that thug never opened fire.

>>22014495
Sounds a little like Rand Al'thor and the Ta'veren tomfoolery going on nearing the end of the series. Where ever he went luck fluctuates and you get things like shingles flying off roves and killing 20 people while on the other side of town a building collapses and the 20 people inside are untouched. He didn't really control it though.

>>22015110
Every time he uses his power, it costs him karmic capital. Eventually, karma starts to try and reclaim its debt in 'interest' payments, depending on how much he owes. If all he did was make a bullet veer slightly off course, it may rain the day he went to the beach despite the weather report saying it would be sunny. If he makes himself win the lottery, he'll get attacked by sharks at the beach that day.

Does this make sense?

>>22014990
>>22015014
Yeah, I intended it to be somewhat humorous. Also, from skimming Longshot's Wikipedia, it seems his innocence is the source of his power. The image in my head was a pretty sleazy guy, probably addicted to gambling and ends up starting fights he can't win due to the balance issue. Basically a slimy used car salesman, probably incredibly superstitious. He could be covered in good luck charms like 4 leaf clovers and iron horseshoes. He's probably nervous, always looking behind his shoulders trying to predict when nature is going to claim its debt.

How about someone who can change their mass without altering their physical self? ie alter your weight at will.

Throw a punch with the force of a goddamn dump truck.
Flap your arms and float away.
Bullets shatter like glass amidst your burly neckbeard.

Don't go too too light! You'll be fuckin ashes in the wind there fellah!
Also have fun moving around that second story residential house when each step you take is literally a metric fuck-ton.

>>22015160

Yes. Now what if you flip that? Cause 100 minor bad things to happen to yourself (your pencil breaks, your card won't read at the ATM, you wake up two minutes late) and wait to reap the random awesome?

>>22015110
Depends on the powersource.

If it's mystical, the goddess of luck could tell him to cut that shit out if he want's to NOT wake up with every possible STD, including the elusive dicksplodin the morning after he spent his riches.

If it's not, it is triggered by adrenalin doing something funky to his brain to bring out the power. So he either has to inject himself or be in danger. And there's only so much adrenaline your heart can take...

>>22015215
Can't do that. Using your power at all costs you. You are manipulating the universe to your will. Whether you do that to break your car down or survive a crash, the universe is going to bill you.

>>22015189
I think he'd be sort of a regular guy. Depressed, because karma is a bitch, and he gambles a lot because of an addiction.
And he needs to save people with his karma powers, but it causes bad shit to happen to him. He's grim, but not grimdark.

Or you could make him be fucking hilarious.
He dies and is finally relieved.
God is all "Nope. You're so unlucky that you can't die yet; you have to suffer through the ridiculous things that happen to you."

Couldn't you take those bad events and use your powers to alter those events? I guess you'd be digging yourself into a karmic hole, but still.

>>22015236
What about, in addition to normal "fate" style bad things happening to him, there is a cosmic mafia.

They break his legs for the Don (God) when he doesn't pay up in bad karma.

Okay, that's pretty dumb.

>>22015289
the line should be just said by him instead of actually by god after some dramatic self sacrifice. "God told me that..."

If you don't want to come up with something ridiculous after he throws a coin that lands on its side and activates a rodenberg machine, you can just have him have a pacemaker that breaks down right after.

>>22015289
If played for humor, he could just do something major before he dies (always horribly) and he has to be resurrected to suffer through the rest of it all.

>>22015332
*goldberg machine

>>22014844
>>22014980
Why not just have a guy with 7 league boots who's bad at trigonometry? He'd be able to get close to where he wanted, but could still be quite a ways off. You could have him do neat things like kick someone 7 leagues away from where they were, or step in with a massive bomb and step away outside the blast.

>>22015236
>Using your power at all costs you.

Then you've created a power that's a very, very minor version of, "You can stop your own heartbeat. Not restart it, mind you."

A power that always shits on you is shit.

The power of reincarnation. You can reincarnate as a person with any credentials or background you want, while you're in some other plane. The catch is that you don't remember any of your past lives until you die and return to your plane, at which point you can remember everything from every past life. Oh, you want to observe the cultists by being one of them? It'd be a real shame if your party decided to investigate and you end up killing them. Of course, this would be an awful idea for anybody that metagames.

The ability to transfer water in and out of objects and surfaces. Drain your foe dry, hydrate dry plants. The possibilities are endless

>>22015332
Pretty good...

I want him to be almost "Oh, for fucks sake" when he sees something bad coming for him.
He keeps getting thrust into these situations (using good karma causes bad karma that requires fixing, infinity)
And he's damn tired of it.

Just an idea, of course.

>>22015316
This is what I was thinking. The universe tries to hit him with lightning, so he makes it strike a nearby tree. How long he can keep that up, now there's the rub.

>>22015371
It shits on you after it helped you out.

It's like a loan. You have to invest your good fortune now so when the bad fortune comes you will be able to pay off without dying.

>>22015289
I like the depressed angle. It makes more sense, but for some reason I kept imagining him as an extra in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. A compulsive gambler with a plaid sports jacket and greased hair. He'd try to do good for selfish reasons, but then ends up feeling good.

>>22015371
Not at all. You borrow luck. This can come in handy, but it costs you. Just because you can't exploit a ridiculous loophole you came up with does not a make a power shitty.

>>22015401
The loan is central to the character, that's for sure.

Maybe he made some deal with something? Or is that too cliche?

Too cliche. Ignore me.

>>22015388
It could make a good climax if he just keeps upping the ante on how much he uses his power every time something is about to kill him. Eventually reality itself starts collapsing just because karma's gotta get back at him somehow.

>>22015411
lol.

If you wanted to make him funny, Hunter S. Thompson would be a pretty good starting point character-wise.
(Luck based Transmetropolitan?)

>>22015436
... and killing Doc Schrodinger in the process.

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>>22015436
So a version of this guy based on luck rather than evolution?

>>22015436
I can fucking picture his eyes when he realizes that he either has to finally take the hit or have everything collapse into a singularity.

...

I don't think that last sentence made sense but you get my drift.

Also, I imagine that he could like... with his last karma fuckery, give the same karma powers to someone before he dies. Kinda like a deal with the devil, except the devil is kindof pitiful.

>>22015401
>>22015416
>only ever borrow luck
>always ends poorly
>can't pay it forward to reap "interest"

It's a power that the only way to get ahead is to never, ever use it. It's "You Get AIDS" Jr. Shit power is shit.

We need an in-universe cause for these people's powers. I'm getting a quantum mechanics, but largely mystical vibe from them. Thoughts?

>>22015345
Things could just be coming apart around him, with shit falling down and almost hitting him. Everything around him seemingly turns into physically improbable comedy, with the shit that's happening getting more and more catastrophic as he uses his power to counteract the karmic payback.

>>22015371
It's a damn sight more interesting than super-speed or invisibility.

And for it to work in an RPG, it kind of has to have some major payoff. How many times have you just wondered why Superman didn't turn back time more often?

>>22015436
Yeah.

He eventually HAS to sacrifice himself for the good of the universe.

Shit, this stuff is really, really good.

He grows from being a self-obsessed gambler to a martyr. He must die so that others may live, and that's just part of karma.

And then maybe, just maybe, he comes back. Because he's just that goddamn (un)lucky.

/tg/, I humbly ask that this become a real, honest to god comic. It must. And you must have /tg/'s help throughout the entire thing.

Roulette must live.

>>22015497
You can always pay back luck, fucknut. If it rains on your birthday, you pay back some luck. If a truck drives by and splashes your pants, you pay back some more. Once you start to abuse it, the lightning strikes start, and once you start using your power to avoid the consequences, you're in a vicious cycle and getting out is going to be hilarious.

>>22015289
Bad guy: Looks like you're luck (BANG) just ran out.
>Superhero dies (Still can't think of a good name)
>Miraculously, he survives after a long operation, possibly with divine intervention.
Sidekick: How could you survive? I thought you had a debt to pay?
Superhero: God told me I wasn't lucky enough to die. (Shrugs his shoulders, then starts to cry.)
>laugh track
>Cut to credits

>>22015494
>I can fucking picture his eyes when he realizes that he either has to finally take the hit or have everything collapse into a singularity.
This made perfect sense and it would be a great final scene for the guy. He has to suffer a lifetimes worth of bad shit unless everything the world is to come to an end.

>>22015497
True, but I'm sure that Roulette wouldn't know about the full extent of the power at first, and only learns about it later on when the lightning strikes start. At one point, he can either take the hit and never use the power, or go balls-to-the-wall to stop the crisis du jour.

>>22015550

But you can never pay enough to tilt the balance toward the positive. In fact, the very act of twiddling will COST you, making your act of contrition into another strike against you. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

>>22015553
His name is Richard "Rich" Emerson a.k.a. Roulette.

Fuck, I want to write this so much.

>>22015590
No, it adds up to zero. You stupid fuck.

>>22015560
It's starting to remind me of a story that was posted on /tg/ about a guy who invented an eyedrop that gave him perfect sight.

PERFECT sight. He couldn't sleep. He could see through his eyeballs. The roof. He could see the stars.

It ended with him seeing the things behind stars... and then one of them gazed back at him.

>>22015599
>Fuck, I want to write this so much.
I share the sentiment, but I can't write it right now. Sleeping fucking sucks.

>>22015590
To reset your bad karma you just have to let it happen to you.

>>22015571

Don't know if this is the right person, but he could probably figure that "hey, I can just keep spending this shit like monopoly money to avoid bad things." So he starts gambling. And winning.
And bad stuff starts happening, which he avoids. He starts racking up the biggest debt ever.

And then HORRIBLE things start happening.
Like end of the world things.

And then he has to die.

...and possibly come back.

I want to restate that if an artist is interested, I will write a full comic about Roulette. Email in field.

>>22015358
7 league boots are wicked rad, his weakness could be stepping into lakes or oceans and not being able to step out which makes him wary. He'd have to carry a bag full of maps around with him and mark out each step he takes. His nemesis should have a magic carpet or some other folklorey item.

>>22015590
You know, the whole fucking point of the character is whether or not you want to change the situation enough that you're willing to pay the price.

I'm sure there are some things in life you're willing to trade getting kicked in the nuts for.

>>22015626
Sauce?

>>22015647
If you do, you must have /tg/'s help.

This guy is all our love child.

Also, mind if I use this?
I like writing, and this is a really, really interesting concept.

There's a drawthread up. Can someone think of something cool to request with Roulette? I'm thinking something TTGL-ish, but I don't know what exactly.

>>22015645
That's the vibe I get from this concept, and I love it. I can see a slight arc dealing with a fling he has with Visage as the only genuine man who can break her eye-lock. Of course, constantly breaking out of her ability would have serious karmic ramifications.

>>22015676
Go for it, bro. Roulette belongs to /tg/. Do right by him.

>>22015659
It was an old comic. One of the comics that flipped the bird to the comic code.

Weird comics? Something like that.

If you are not repulsed by AT4W, search for the Halloween episodes, they mention a bunch of these comics.

>>22015697
Lol.

How would Doc Shrodinger deal with someone that can fuck with fate (but still get's fucked over in the end by it)?

Also, scar cultists.

>>22015688
Him covered in 4 leaf clovers, horse shoes, lucky shirt, ect, and lightning striking everywhere around him.

>>22015716
Amen, brotha.

I hate to be the guy to request it, but this needs to be saved somewhere. I know I'm saving the thread as a word doc.

>>22015446
Ooh, I like the Transmetropolitan angle. That could be his devotion, the truth. Given his knowledge of the laws of probability, an interest in human truths could be interesting.
>>22015647
Please do. too bad I can't draw at all.

>>22015726
I think we might've out/co/ed /co/ with all these guys.

>>22015726
More or less the same method as Visage would use on him - make him keep cloning and collapsing back until the mental strain does him in. Would be the least karma-costly way of doing it, because totally shutting off his power would be a total fate-fuck.

>>22015735
Heh, it'd be neat if he were obsessed with luck. The entire universe trying to kill him and he puts on his lucky shirt "just in case".

>>22015726
Ha, quantum mechanics is even based on strict laws of probability. A mashup between the two could have hilarious results.

>>22015571

Now this I can see. It's a shit power, but if you get it dumped in your lap and only find the downside once you're committed, then it's a little late, now, isn't it? The first few backlashes from tweaking can be shrugged off as happenstance. But as the toll escalates, suddenly you find yourself in deep with a cosmic loan shark you can't even bargain with, and the only way out may be doubling down.

Great pathos for a character concept. Still, as a player, you'd pick that off a list right after "prolific toe stubber".

>>22015780
I'd like if he noted what will cost him what.
"Made her drop her keys so she has to pick it up and I get a nice shot... yeees. This'll cost me a cold spell in june but it was totally worth it."

>>22015735
Ok, I've tried to put up the request but captcha won't let me. Someone else try.

>>22015808

Request here: >>22015814

>>22015797
I'd pick it. Sounds like it doesn't need a lot of build points, hah.

>>22015794
"QUIT FUCKING WITH MY ATOMIC DECAY, ROULETTE! YOU CAN'T JUST HAVE IT NOT DECAY AT ALL!"

*Roulette rolling on the floor laughing as Doc collapses and clones in a fit of rage*
*Roulette is then mauled by a cheetah*

>>22015726
>>22015697
Here's how I see this going down:
Roulette is in love with Visage, but she refuses to be with him because he has a cosmic gambling addiction. He keeps using his power to make amazing things happen for her, and she chides him for being irresponsible (I picture a great scene where he just did her a big favor, and as they're staring at each other from five feet apart, it starts to rain -- only on his half of the panel).

Doc Schrodinger hates being looked at, for obvious reasons, by anyone. But nobody more than Visage. She foiled his plans and he is hell bent on killing her; she is the one person he is afraid of (let's say maybe he can't just collapse away from her, she is the only exception to this rule).

The story is Roulette trying to protect her against her will, racking up a massive debt in the process. During the climax, Roulette faces off with Schrodinger (reduced to one incarnation) and a fissure opens under them, plunging them to the center of the Earth.

He miraculously survives, b/c the universe isn't done with him -- he owes too much to die yet.

>>22013700
Bonus points if a character is such a pussy that they try and use the smallest words possible.

Like, teleportation is a big fuckin' word to stab into yourself, right? Fuckin', just write fast, or something.
And then the opposite, masochists who try to elongate and elaborate to a degree

>>22013411
>photonic light

>>22015822
The gun thing actually makes me think he'd just rather divert it away from his vitals because that is probably only worth a bit of food poisoning.

>>22015807

Detailed journals of all the good and bad things that have happened to him. And the bad - were they karma, or just odds? And was that bad actually BAD? You wake up late for work, but avoid a huge pile-up on the 305. You're fired for tardiness, and a week later the business burns down. Do they count? A slow slide to paranoia as he waits for the hammer to drop, and the line between use of his power and just plain ol' bad luck starts to blur.

You motherfuckers have won me over. I'd read the fuck out of this.

Each hero is considered a "player"
Players can find an "artifact" which is any physical object that is not animated via free will and thought
When they choose an artifact they develope powers based on the aspects of that artifact. For example, a water jug would have the aspects of containment and replenishment and one could expect superpowers based around controlling where things move as well as some sort of healing capabilities. The more obvious the aspect the stronger tht power is. As with the water bottle its primary focus is to rehydrate so it's healing is stronger than its containment

>>22015830
I don't know about the whole "romance" thing.

Your call.

I do like him as selfish though.

>>22015830

What about the power simply stopping right at the edge of him dying? It's only truly awful if you have to suffer it. Hit by a bus, 3/4 of your bones broken, pure agony for eight weeks, but you live.

>>22015886
I like the idea of him starting as a selfish man and slowly becoming more of a good guy as the story progresses and the karmic backlash ramping up exponentially.

>>22015893
Him dying is more dramatic, and fits better with the whole "tragic hero" thing.

>>22015869
Roulette finds some dice, Visage finds some glasses, 7 league boot guy has boots, Schrodinger has uh, a mummified cat?

>>22015898
Agreed.

Fuck, Roulette is such a good character.

Is he ever going to do normal superhero stuff like go on patrol?

Or is he more of a normal guy that happens to have this (arguably awful) power.

I vote for sort of normal.

>>22015886
Not the guy you replied to, but I'm kinda with you on this one. I wouldn't be surprised if he couldn't hold a steady relationship due to people not being able to put up with all the ever escalating stream of bullshit happening around him.

>>22015933
Normal but with his luck he just doesn't stop walking into terrible situations/villans/ect

>>22015886
>>22015898
Love is selfish.

>>22015933
One vote for normalish.

>>22015921
>a mummified cat

A dead cat. That is occasionally alive. Maybe.

He's insane from all the fragmentation. The cat was always dead. The cat only acts alive in panels where it's his POV.

>>22015909
Could be a generation thing. Could have gotten his powers from a previous probability warper. And he could warp probabilities so someone gets the power when he dies, hoping that the new guy won't squander it for petty things like he did but actually help people.

>>22015937
He almost seems "broken", right?

Like, deeply not okay.

Except, that sounds really stupid.

I don't know. Just not able to hold a steady relationship due to personality.

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>>22012969

You glorious bastard, I'm unashamedly stealing your idea for the One Piece game I'm running. My group will absolutely love this.

>>22015957
lol

>>22015949

Hmmm....

From what you posted it sounded like a lame "ugh, she dun't luv me" kind of thing. I probably read it wrong.

If you can make it work, all the power to you.

Can I just say... I love you, /tg/. This thread alone is worth weeks of quest threads and 40k-based arguments scrolled past.

>>22015933
With a name like Richard "Rich" Emerson, aka "Roulette" you just know this guy wouldn't be caught dead in super tights.

>>22015986
>>22012969here

I imagined him wearing something like in OPs pic. Or holding his breath.

He could also roll into a ball for transportation and do all kinds of mantis shrimp awesomeness. Like having super eyes and looking really, really pimpin.

>>22015998

....

Can that please be one of the bad karma things that happens to him?

PLEASE?

*wakes up after night of bad shit next to some landwhale*

"Ungh... wha-what?! Oh jesus."
*looks down. In sexy superhero get up with landwhale in wonder woman costume*

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>>22016028
>going through Roulette's mind...

>>22015933
A normal guy who happens to run into the worst supervillains out of sheer unluckiness. Basically he walks into a bank and some BBEG happens to rob it at the same time. Just another Tuesday for Roulette.

>>22016028
Trips through a clothesline, comes out with a brilliant red cap snagged around his neck.

Clothes torn off and thrown into a sex shop, comes out with latex suit.

Keeps getting "R"s smeared or burned onto his shirts.

>>22016057
Scene: Roulette is walking past a bank when a petty robber runs out with a sack of cash. He uses his powers to take him down, is thanked by the civilians, and walks away with a stack of 100s that fell into his pocket... Unfortunately, every one in a hundred such stacks is marked with exploding ink packets; and don't you know it? Now he's in midtown with blue ink all over his sweatshirt.

>>22014836
He's both. He already looks like a muscley strongman type.

>>22016076
His lucky shirt is the one that's never gotten an "R" on it. It gets one right before he takes the hit from that karmic backlash, just as his luck runs out.

>>22016076
>dry cleaning mixed up with fetishists
>boss makes him dress up for an advertising promo

Keep it going as an awful running gag. Supervillains always react as though he's a superhero, and part of the karmic payback is being forced to listen to overblown dramatic monologues.

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>>22016015

You truly have inspired me anon. Long John Silver the pirate has been born, and shall be terrorizing the Grand Line in a session or two. Oh, and why "Long John"? Because what syncs better with incredible punches and pimpin' style than the reach and appearance of a longarm tribesman?

>>22016111
So perfect.

>>22016130
Hmm. The double jointed arm would with with mantis style really well imo.

>>22016185
Come on, /tg/, don't let this glorious thread die!

superpower: he knows everything (omniscience)
downside: he knows absolutely everything, including how he dies, the entire Twilight series word for word, what it feels like to be decapitated, etc

Would be fun to see the story start off with Roulette being a minor character to the Visage vs. Schrodinger conflict, but as Roulette's luck gets shittier and shittier, his prominence grows for some reason until he becomes the main character.

>>22016431
Why can't he invent some doohickey or something that makes him immortal? It shouldn't be impossible and if it can be done he knows exactly how to do it.

>>22016469
Finally someone posted.

I was so afraid our vision would die.

Good idea.

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To keep the thread going, here's another of my old projects. Perhaps for the purpose of this thread simply combine your powers into one strange power, if possible.

>>22016469
That sounds awesome. Have Roulette be a minor comic relief character and play off of the two main ones, Visage and the Doc. Suddenly you start seeing more and more disasters in the background. Like Roulette offhandedly mentions he's going on vacation to a tropical island, and then on the news you see a hurricane hit that area on a TV in the background. Eventually it hits breaking point where he has to either sacrifice himself or transfer his powers somehow to save the world.

>>22016775
So exactly at what point does the end-of-the-world stuff begin? I'd suggest the moment when Roulette becomes the clear main character by finally cockblocking Schrodinger's power after he and Visage have their long and drawn out fight.

>>22015626
Sounds like an episode of Mushi-Shi, a girl had a mushi crawl into her eyes, (sort of, she blinked and the little shit was gone, latter we find out what it was and that it's in her eyes.) As time progresses she develops super divination and can see into towns far away, so no one wants to be around her because she knows too much personal stuff about them, let alone playing hide and seek with her.

Can't Roulette be his own man with his own story? He seems way better suited for a lead than Doc or Visage. Besides, his power makes everything be about him personally, so it makes sense for him to be the main character since it's all about him as a character.

>>22016955
It could work either way. Depends on the writer, I suppose.

>>22016955
>>22016969

Guys, isn't it obvious? He would be a side character in the Visage or Doc Schrodinger title, but after that run finishes he'd get his own run. Roulette and the Cosmic Debt.

Welp, /tg/, it has been one hell of a night.

This thread has restored my faith in 4chan.

Please, continue. Do not let this idea gather dust like so many others. Go forth and write!

If you're lucky we might even live to hear you tell the tale.

>>22016955
Visage would need more to her to be a main, right now she's got a neat gimick but I really can't see an entire series with her as a main character, not like Roulette and Doc Schrodinger.

Also someone put this on supTG

About Doc, how could Visage fight him or even know about him if he collapses into another version of himself every time observed? She sees him and he collapses without ever having actually been there to begin with. Hell, he'd be unable to be observed by anyone, so he's unknown to all.

>>22017107
Oh yeah, and by the way, I totally support him as main character.

Doc and Visage would be important too, obviously.

But I like our unlucky fate manipulator far too much to let him sit on the sidelines for any large amount of time.

Man, I just want to sit down and flesh the shit out of this guy, and the world he lives in.

Scar cultists, fate loans, quantum doctors, gorgon...things.

/tg/, I love you.

>>22017150
Eye-lock powers keep him in her gaze until she allows it. Perhaps one of the few ways to keep Doc around after being looked at.

Also what of the scar cultists? We need more on them!

>>22017181
wait wait, cultists came in with the Reincarnation guy, the Scar powers came from the person who writes on himself. Also, lets not foget about the guy who could control ink on a 2D plane. Speaking of Ink, has anyone seen that movie? I see Roulette turning into a sort of Ink character, after loosing it all he tries to set the things right he wronged, even though he's lost so much in the process, but he can't get to that point of realization on his own.

>>22017218
Well someone said something about scar cultists, and I loved the scar man story, so it sounds good to me. Perhaps the original scar guy lived long ago, and now a generation of his devotees are trying the "Reopen Scars" method all at once to achieve a feat of indescribable power.

Maybe the thing that leads to the end-of-the-worldness that Roulette accidentally contributes to.

I love how fleshed out the Roulette character has become. Someone should archive this so we don't lose all of these ideas.

Guy who came up with the writing-on-skin schtick here.

Actually, I had never thought beyond a single person having the power. For the visual stuff I had the image of a woman with ink-black hair and skin like paper or parchment, at least when the power is active. That's just the image I had and I'm not sure it's anything I'll use myself. Ignore it if you want to.

I'd like to know what Doc's goal is, someone said he wanted to replace the world with clones of himself, but latter I gathered it'd be too much of a stress on him. Maybe he's constantly working to reverse a life long regret, but is jealous of Roulette, who seemingly and flippantly can so easily rearrange fate, but won't help Doc because he lacks the basic compassion for other people that Roulette has. Slowly Doc starts arranging for bad things to happen to Roulette's world, not directly to Roulette who in turn internalizes the damage and blames himself, unaware that his paranoia for bad luck is actually picking up on a trend.

Just an idea.

My phone won't let me reply directly, but bear with me.

Anyway, I've seen Ink. I'm thinking the personality fits Doc better, being half-mad and isolated from pretty much everyone in the world. It could work really good for Roulette as well, what with him breaking down inside from being stuck in his cycle of karmic payback.

>>22017433
I like it, the whole grief cycle reminds me of Isaac Asimov's Time Machine, or I Am Legend. It's so rarely used with such genuine feeling like Ink did though.

I archived this thread, BTW, go and vote it up!

>Doc causing trouble for Roulette
>Roulette uses his powers to make things better
>only prolonging the inevitable shitstorm
I like it. Doc is an unseen but ever present madman who's petty grudge against a statistically anomalous man inadvertently causes reality to come crashing down after Roulette is forced to use his powers too much.

>>22017551
woo, watching all those movies payed off, also forget to put link to archive, derp.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/22012929/

>>22015626
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_%281963_film%29

>>22017309
I can see the person/people with that power coming in as either unwitting henchmen to Schrondinger who might turn in the end, or they turn, do damage to Doc that they'll never really see the scope of and basically be sucked into a realm of monsters after the Open Scars trick.

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Managed to squeak out some sketches.

>>22017663
friggen beautiful, we gotta get everyone together to work on this whole thing some more.

>>22017663
I love it.

>>22017663
Guy who left has returned!
Temporarily.

Those sketches are great.

I came up with cultists. I think.

Been playing a lot of Call of Cthulhu.

I quite liked the jealous Doc idea. Having Roulette blame himself could be quite good.

The power that you are more "super" the more evil there is around you.

You can go toe to toe with the big bad but a solitary mook will wreck you due to the discrepency in how evil each one is.

Group of mooks makes for an interesting balanceas one particularly evil henchman can boos your powers disproportionate to the number of enemies you're fighting but if they're all not so evil you're fucked.

>>22017857
I'm going to reply to my own posts because I can.

I think Doc would be good as someone who is deeply bitter over the loss of something. His wife, if we want cliches.

He couldn't save her, and he hates the fact that Roulette CAN save people, but doesn't? (at first?). He's jealous of Roulette's powers, and the fact that he is stuck with this curse of his (a power like his seems far more awful that beneficial).

He got his powers as a result of the accident that killed his wife?

I don't want him to be another stereotype villain, though.

The jealousy angle is so good though.

>>22017663
So long as we're doing credentials: I came up with Doc Schrodinger and named Roulette. Sketches look good. I think Doc should be modeled on Erwin Schrodinger, though, and I think it was agreed that Roulette would never willingly dress up as a super hero. I think we need to work on fleshing out Visage.

>>22017386
Doc in the original story line is focused on killing Visage, I think. Long-term, he would like there to be fewer humans on Earth, as they interfere with him using his power.

>>22017957
The Doc is a man of science. Maybe he is trying to find the source of everybody's powers? He hates Visage's and envies Roulette's, so it would make sense to use the tired cliche of the meta-supervillain.

Well, off to bed with me. Work and whatnot in the morning. Glad I was a part of this thread!

>>22017979
World domination is too tired, I just suggested jealousy because it's believable, he wants Roulette to help him, maybe using someone else to put Roulette in a position to undo the deep regret Doc has. But it hurts so many people and he is so calous about it that Roulette would never want to help him. That's kinda what I had in mind for Doc's drive, I still have no ideas for Visage.

>>22017979

Hmm
I guess that does make sense.
Still needs to be bitter.

WELL, GOOD WORK /tg/. PROUD OF ALL OF YOU.
MUCH LOVE.
GOOD LUCK.

Are we doing credentials now? Guy who came up with the skin-writing and tattoo stuff here, along with some of the stuf for Doc and Roulette. I'm writing from my phone and I should really get some sleep, but if you guys can keep the thread alive then I'll see if I can contribute with some writefaggotry for this most awesome thread.

Guy who came up with the idea for Roulette here. Going to bed, I have work tomorrow morning, but if this thread's still around tomorrow, or if we make a new one, I'd gladly contribute.

>>22013316
That makes regeneration even more awesome, think of it like this, carve regenerate in your arm, you heal up until the wound heals, then you do it again

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>The name's Roulette...because no matter how lucky I get, it always comes full circle.

Here's the thing: If you were selfish, and you could run the odds, what's the first thing you'd do?

Long story short, before all this I got myself a boatload of lottery tickets. One for each game, all scratch offs and quick picks. Didn't know then what I know now, ya know? Pushed it a little bit, won a boatload of money. Never worry about anything ever again type money. I coulda been Iron Man type money. Which is good, I guess, because I was going to need it soon.

The way this works is I make things happen. I shift the odds here and there, change outcomes. Figured it out playing penny slots, and plain ignored every time I lost my keys or stubbed my toe in the dark. Then I bought those lotto tickets. I hadn't made the connection yet: Every time I change something it comes back around. Some kind of karmic debt or something, I don't know.

Anyway, after that I tried to not use my power for a bit. The thing is, you put a man in a corner he tries to find a way out. So a little push here, so I don't get shot that day. And a little there so that lightning bolt doesn't kill me. But it all keeps adding up, no matter what I do. And now people need my help. And if I'm using it for me and I'm using it for them it's going to add up that much faster, and I get the feelings one of these days my luck's going to...

Damn, it sounds silly to say it out loud.

My luck's going to run out.