World of Marvels
A Marvel Supervillain Quest
So this is my first quest and I am pretty clueless when it comes to most of this stuff so please bare with me. I'd be grateful for any feedback so I can make sure the quest improves. Also I don't know how to threadmark anything so help in that regard and in general would be extremely grateful.
[] Magneto: The Master of Magnetism.
Goal: To make the world a mutant utopia.
You start off with 6 actions a turn and will have no nemesis at the start.
If chosen there will be votes on some key background decisions. You will start with nothing but your hero unit.
[] Thanos: The Mad Titan.
Goal: To prove your love to Mistress Death and have her return it. No matter the cost.
You will have 5 actions a turn and will have no nemesis at the start. You will start with nothing but your hero unit.
[] Johann Schmidt: der Rote Schädel.
Goal: To rule the world.
You have 6 actions a turn and will have SHIELD as your nemesis.
You will start with nothing but your hero unit.
[]Justin Hammer: The Financier
Goal: To be the best and biggest company in the world eliminating all who will stand in your way, whether they know it or not
You have 6 actions a turn and will start with Tony Stark as your nemesis. You will start with your hero unit and a billion dollar company at your disposal.
Rules
This is a 'Crusader Kings'-style quest. You play as a villain in the world of Marvel who gathers an organization behind them in order to accomplish their goals, generally starting in the first days of the age of superheroes (with varying start options).
Each turn, which is (tentatively) three months in-universe, you have access to a number of actions, as chosen from five categories: Martial, Diplomacy, Stewardship, Intrigue, and Learning. You have a set number of actions every turn and can freely pick where to spend each action with the exception of supervillain actions. Each action is associated with a DC; after voting, the basic system is that I will roll a d100 for each action, and if the roll at least equals the DC, the action succeeds to some extent; otherwise it fails. The higher the roll, the better. Following this, you may get one or more reactive arcs in response to some threat or other.
Heroes
Heroes (some of which might be better described as Villains, but whatever) are particularly prominent people in your organization. Recruiting Heroes is done by taking Diplomacy actions although your history and alliances may close off certain options for you and some heroes will become unable to work well with others.
Each Hero has a value in each of the five statistics, hard-capped at 50:
0-10 Human
10-20 Heroic
20-30 Planetary
30-40 Galactic
40-50 Cosmic
When rolling for an action, most bonuses decrease the DC. Hero bonuses are the only bonuses that actually improve the roll. Specifically, the hero's value for a certain stat is added onto the d60 roll. This may sometimes cause the roll to exceed 60; in this case only (a roll of 61+), you get a re-roll to add to your current total. The same hero bonuses also affect this roll, so that you can get a prolonged chain of hero bonuses. The chain of hero bonuses is capped at 5 minus the number of heroes assigned to the action or if the heroes have a bonus exceeding or equal to 60 are caped at one reroll.
Each hero can participate in one action a turn. If multiple heroes are participating in the same action than a primary hero is chosen either by having the highest stat in the area of the action or by being main hero chosen for quest. Multiple heroes on one action, is calculated as follows Hero A + (Hero B*AB cooperation score) + (Hero C*AC cooperation score) and so on. Hero A is hero assigned to be a leader.
A, B and C are the heroes stats while cooperation score AB is the cooperation between hero A and B and cooperation score AC is the cooperation between hero A and C. As many heroes as you want can be added to an action although there can only be one primary hero assigned to an action. The cooperation score between heroes is rated on a scale of -2 to 2 and will usually be available to the thread to see although sometimes things will be hidden (surprise betrayals are a thing).
Assets
Money is highly limited in its potential when interacting with a lot of entities, and this isn't the sort of quest where you have trouble staying afloat in Earth's economy. As such, I won't be tracking money numerically. Instead, plot-relevant assets are tracked individually. This takes one of two forms. Some things - artifacts and corporations, for instance - are owned by your organization as a whole (directly or indirectly), and are listed as such. Immobile assets, by contrast, are organized into Bases, each of which has a number of Slots that represent its capacity to contain (military, industrial, research, etc.) facilities. Bases themselves might be mobile and can always get expanded to house even more stuff. You can create and own multiple bases but there is an upkeep element to having more than one.
Supervillain actions
This is a supervillain quest and as such a nemesis can be gained. A nemesis is either given upon selecting a character or if you are defeated enough by a certain specfic super hero/heroine or team. Upon gaining a nemesis supervillain actions must be taken against them every so often in place of a regular action. Supervillain actions are a variety of schemes that will attempt to damage the nemesis in some way shape or form. Successful supervillain actions will hurt the nemesis and benefit you while failed actions will do the reverse. The amount of time till the next supervillain action is determined by the success of previous actions and that heroes current state. Upon defeating a nemesis a reward will be given. You can have multiple nemesis' at once but one of them will be designated as the primary nemesis. The primary nemesis gives the most rewards upon their defeat.
Voting
The procedure is as follows:
1. Action options for the turn are posted. (Write-ins are very welcome, but subject to QM approval.)
2. By-line approval voting among the actions, to determine which actions are undertaken this turn.
3. A second round of voting, by plan, to determine which bonuses, particularly heroes, go on which action.
4. Turn results
5. Possible reactive mini-arcs, with smaller votes within them
Wanted to do a Darkseid quest in a universe that had both the DC and Marvel worlds intertwined, but I feared that would be too ambitious for my first quest. I was also unsure if voters would act in character for someone like Darkseid so I got cold feet.
If you have any questions or concerns about the quest please feel free to ask.
