Adventure Ideas for a Supers Game

[InTheMachine]

Hey everyone, I’m a fairly new GM and I’m looking for ideas for my game.

I’m currently running a Savage Worlds/Masks: A New Generation hybrid game here on the Playground that follows four teenage superheroes through their adventures in Iron Station, a made up city in Louisiana.

I know I can pull from comics, but I was looking for some original adventure ideas. Anything would be helpful!

[Bohandas]

reprinting my entries from https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?512833-101-plots-for-superhero-rpgs


58.) A supervillain is stealing all the world's monuments

59.) California's medical marijuana dispensaries are being attacked by a villain named Captain Buzzkill

60.) The criminal underworld has teamed up with the actual underworld and the area is overrun with witchcraft powered super-mobsters

74.) The league of evil have bribed their way into appointments to high political offices

75.) All the newspapers are going out of business thanks to the internet. The heroes must find new day jobs.

81.) The Prohibitionist is attacking the brewery

96.) Evil twins

97.) Neutral twins, who use their powers to goof around instead of trying to save or conquer the world

98.) Oprah's evil clone just gave everyone in the audience the plague

99.) Ideological war between supervillains The Robber Baron and Dr.Procrustes
104.) Martian gangsters

105.) The mafia is going to fix the olympics

106.) Nazi zombies

107.) Confederate zombies

108.) People are being replaced by mutant cabbages that can assume human shape

135.) Doctor Juvenile is planning to put exlax in the water supply

137.) A large meteor is about to hit the earth

146.) The League of Treachery, consisting of the ghosts of Judas Iscariot, Benedict Arnold, and Jefferson Davis, has been posessing people to make them betray friends and benefactors.

147.) Doctor Juvenile has been killing people with the purified venom of the brazilian wandering spider, whose venom causes severe priapism prior to death (compare Batman issue 66 ;p )

148.) Doctor Juvenile is planning to replace all the medical oxygen tanks in the city with bottled farts8149.)

149.) Oprah's evil clone just gave everyone in the audience a kalashnikov and a vial of PCP

150.) Imperial Japanese zombies

155.) The sun is turning weird colors

156.) The south is rising again and needs to be stopped

157.) A supervillain whose theme is dirty limericks

158.) Similar to the infamous batman adventure "The Joker's Comedy of Errors" except that that villain has latched on to a non-dirty meaning of a different dirty word. Possible themes for their crime spree include: Donkeys, cats, roosters, snakes, female dogs, rifle stocks, 126 gallon casks, beavers, detectives, tabarnacles (Canada only), the aft decks of ships, and the letter "p"

168.) There's a plot to blow up the sewage treatment plant with a couple dumptrucks full of M80s

178.) A revisit to the moon by NASA reveals that it is inhabited by a belligerant race of werewolves, who have stolen the spaceship and reverse-engineered it to build a fleet for an invasion

179.) A supervillain has come here from Europe to destroy all champagne that wasn't manufactured in the champagne province of France (and indeed all products with toponyms that don't match where they were made)

181.) Some sort of chemical spill or illegal dumping in the forest has created a lot of superpowered animals that are causing havoc

183.) Atlantic City is being attacked by a team of Monopoly themed supervillains

195.) Shipping lanes are being menaced by undead nazi u-boat commanders

199.) The newest artificial flavoring chemical causes food to turn into monsters if left out too long

200.) An very big asteroid has hit the atmosphere at an oblique angle and is now in a decaying orbit. It's gonna cause serious damage when it eventually hits.

209.) In a desperate attempt to boost sales to not go completely bankrupt the newspaper the heroes work at as their day job has become a tabloid. Can the heroes hang on to their integrity

210.) Midterm elections are coming up and the country has finally reached the point where there are no longer any non-supervillain candidates for congress

211.) Doctor Quackery is harvesting parts of the city's zoo animals for medicines that don't work

230.) Distress call from yourself from the future

245.) The Grumpy Gadgeteer has convinced most of the world's superpowered individuals to quit superheroing and drop out of normal society and move to his elitist private gated community. Someone's gonna have to fill in for them.

246.) The Oil Baron has enacted a dastardly plan to flood the planet

247.) Lassiez Faire Lad is selling organs harvested from homeless people on the black market

272.) The evil Doctor Juvenile has concocted a plan to replace the city's water supply with pee

278.) The entire city is on fire

279.) A high ranking government official has been leaking military secrets to supervillains

280.) All of the city's radio stations' copies of a popular new song have been mysteriously replaced with a subtly altered recording that contains the brown note halfway through

281.) Someone has tampered with the chemistry of all the food in the city, taking the preservatives and fat and stuff from the food in the regular supermarket and putting it into the food at the city's Whole Foods type stores, making the regular food taste bad and the health food unhealthy

282.) A recording of someone reading an incantation from the Necronomicon has gone viral on youtube. Sort of a combination of the premises of Fistful of Boomstick and Rings (and Scary Movie 3)

294.) Online data mining. Seriously, this was actually the Riddler's evil scheme from Batman Forever

298.) Ragnarok is happening. Worse still, most of the world's leaders are adamantly denying this fact in order to pander to religious special interests (as these generally tend to be non-odinist in nature).

299.) A local organic farm is being propped up by a malevolent agricultural cult like the ones in The Wicker Man and Children of the Corn

300.) The farm-cult from 299 eventually gets into a war with another evil farm of opposite approach to technology. This second farm is run by a Monsanto-like company developing a strain of genetically engineered killer cabbages with which to take over the world

304.) The INS wants to deport one of the heroes back to their destroyed home planet.

305.) An army of ninjas is wrecking havoc. they were pretty comically harmless at first, but as they lose numbers they seem to be getting more powerful

306.) Yellowstone is erupting

307.) Someone's hacked into the army's computers and stolen America's nuclear launch codes

308.) Someone's hacked into the Russian government's computers and stolen America's nuclear launch codes

309.) A giant robotic John Wilkes Booth

310.) Somebody has switched the city's wastewater and drinking water pipes around

311.) Fracking has opened a chasm into Hell

320.) Doctor Juvenile has stolen all the toilet paper in the city

321.) Plague of dancing zombies like in the Thriller video

327.) A supervillain has managed to drug one of the heroes with a chemical that has caused them to become morbidly obese

343.) A certain interior design and decorating firm is part of a plot to use to use the power of feng shui to siphon the life force out of the city's people and transfer it into the firm's leader, turning him into a god

358.) the moon is falling out of orbit

359.) PCP in the water supply

361.) Not only has someone released all the criminals from prison, but they've also somehow locked up all of the city's top officials in their place (excluding officials that are also criminals), and destroyed the keys so that the prison will have to be dismantled to get them out

373.) Professor Politesse is threatening to detonate a nuclear bomb unless everyone conforms to a ridiculously time wasting and unproductive set of ritualized formal manners and deportment he's devised.

381.) The end of the world (as we know it) exactly as described in the song The End of the World (As We Know It)

383.) There's a new kind of weed on the streets that, in addition to curing glaucoma, also gives you the power to shoot eye lasers and see through walls, but only while the high lasts

388.) Attack of the undead Thanksgiving turkeys

389.) The tooth fairy has become proactive and is punching people's teeth out.

390.) A snowman comes to life through the magic of demonic possession

391.) Executed serial murderers are rising from the dead

392.) Doctor Juvenile is going to play the brown note over the radio (sort of like in the South Park episode with the recorder concert and Yoko Ono)

393.) Alien invaders want to steal the planet's oxygen

394.) Yellow fashions are in and that means the effectiveness of the green lanterns is out

395.) The president is posessed by a 20th century dictator's ghost

396.) The big one. A massive earthquake has seperated california from the continental US

397.) nukes in rogue nations

403.) A game themed villain is kidnapping important figures and forcig them to be part of his human chessboard

404.) A game themed villain has reverse-engineered the old Polybius (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_(video_game)) cabinet videogame and released it as a mobile app

409.) A vegan supervillain is destroying all of the world's cheese

410.) Dr.Juvenile has gotten his hands on military-grade stinkbombs

411.) Someone's robbing Fort Knox

412.) The party's rich gadgeteer is being audited by the IRS

413.) The Goldbug is destroying the mint

433.) A race of assimilating cyborgs is turning all the Roombas and other household appliances into blood crazed half-animal monstrosities

446.) A major destructive hurricane is further complicated by both widespread lootig and supervillains using the pandemonium to covertly break into government facilities

449.) Panic over made up doomsday prophecy threatens to cause actual doomsday

452.) A series of Son-of-Sam style murders except in this case the perp really is in a pact with Satan and gains increasingly dangerous demonic powers after each killing

453.) A local street gang are all werewolves

454.) Part of the city has turned into a hellscape, and it's spreading

455.) The ghost of a powerful mobster kingpin returns on the anniversary of his death

456.) A superhero is targeted by a possessing spirit due to his powers

457.) not!Trigon is invading

458.) The literal apocalypse

459.) A nuclear meltdown turns people into mutant zombies

463.) Someone's tampered with the gifts in Santa's bag of gifts and now all the good children of the world have ticking time-bombs waiting under their christmas trees

465) Dr.Juvenile has built an enormous laser cannon in order to etch an obscene drawing on the moon. Deal with this before a more serious supervillain seizes control of the laser cannon and causes serious destruction with it.

473.) Holiday antihero Krampus has come to town to devour the flesh of the guilty.

474.) Havoc is being caused by a jumanji-esque haunted Monopoly board. The heroes must finish the game while dealing with hurricane sandy, [redacted], rampant urban decay, and other Atlantic City themed disasters that the game has conjured up

480.) The mood and zeitgeist of the holiday season has given Mammon the power to break free from Hell and wreck havoc upon the mortal world

490.) Super-crime has been down so it's time to finally track down the prankster telekineticist who's been bending people's spoons while they're trying to eat soup

491.) Baron Upperclass is destroying the city with his his gentrification ray

492.) The evil Code Authority has come out of retirement and is trying to again remake the world in their own image. Stop them in the most violent way possible

496.) A bunch of battle tanks and experimental military exoskeleton war suits have become possessed by energy beings from outer space

504.) A villain is using aerosol sprays to destroy the ozone layer

505.) A volcano is erupting in a populated area

506.) Some sort of gigantic evil rune has appeared in the sky

507.) The Robber Baron is replacing congressmen with clones loyal to him

508.) Dr.Juvenile has created a new substance, Poo-tonium, and he's using it to fuel a superweapon

511.) A dead supervillain's minions seek to revive the villain using Frosty The Snowman's hat

513.) The Spammer has stolen a gadgeteer's supersuit via an email scam where he claimed to run a service that repairs supersuits. Now he's wrecking havoc.

514.) The Copyright Troll is building a time machine. He intends to go back in time, publish Charles Dickens' novels before Dickens does, and then come back and demand royalties on all the various film versions of A Christmas Carol

515.) Dr.Juvenile has kidnapped the surviving members of the cast of Jackass and is forcing them to plan his next pointlessly boorish and scatological crime spree

516.) A supervillain has stolen a bunch of moon rocks from NASA and is using them to control an army of werewolv

517.) A cult leader has drawn an army of brainwashed followers to himself using backwards messages hidden in religious music, now he plans to use them to take over the world.

518.) An epidemic of spontaneous combustion

519.) A villain is threatening to vaporize a skyscraper with a death ray unkess his demands are met

520.) A strange army of balloon themed ninjas has taken over the criminal underworld

530.) A vampire mad scientist is building a doomsday device to destroy the sun

532.) A giant blob monster is absorbing everyone

533.) Undead christmas trees seek revenge for being cut down

534.) Santa Claus has been kidnapped

538.) Something or someone has caused high ranking government officials to start dying of unexpected heart attacks at a rate of about one per day

539.) All the chocolate in the city has disappeared overnight

[Lord Raziere]

1. The villain from one of your favorite shows or other piece of media just shows up from a portal. crossover time!

2. cyborg dinosaurs are attacking! stop them and figure out why.

3. Your entire team suddenly gets teleported far away from Earth and must figure out a way to get back- but in what state will your city/high school be in by the time you return!?

4. various shadows in the city have suddenly detached themselves from people and protesting outside city hall- but all the people without shadows are falling ill, what is happening?

5. A strange building has appeared where there wasn't before- but your team of heroes are the only people that notice it exists

6. One of the students whom your friends with suddenly says a strange sentence to you in private "how goes the infiltration of this planet, did you replace the human yet?" looks like someone has loose lips...

7. A science experiment....goes completely right for once. But its still a prototype and while it has benefits for a lot of people, you've gotten a tip from a reliable source that some villains are planning to steal it for their own benefit.

8. You find an old dark mages study underneath the school and looks recently used- but no mage to be found, some bloodstains on a pentagram and some seriously dark and spooky things being done here- but where is the mage, and how long have they been here?

9. some students start repeating a meme mindlessly over and over again until its the only thing people are saying, they don't see to be stopping....and its spreading

10. you wake up and everything seems normal until you put on the news- it has live footage of your super team busy foiling a robbery, but none of you are even there.

[Necroanswer]

Hey everyone, I’m a fairly new GM and I’m looking for ideas for my game.

I’m currently running a Savage Worlds/Masks: A New Generation hybrid game here on the Playground that follows four teenage superheroes through their adventures in Iron Station, a made up city in Louisiana.

I know I can pull from comics, but I was looking for some original adventure ideas. Anything would be helpful!

I haven't played that particular RPG, so I don't know what kind of power level a "super" would have, but here goes:

Mobsters acquire high tech equipment (powersuits? lasers capable of punching through a tank?) probably from a "mad" scientist either willingly or unwillingly cooperating.

Cultists steal artifacts from museums (either locally or worldwide) to bring back an elder god or ancient mummy king (you could probably borrow a lot from Call of Cthulhu modules/stories if you adjusted them a bit)

An alien spacecraft (or fleet) begins scanning the Earth systematically with beams that appear to do nothing, except when they touch a super they drain all their powers

Do a supervillain campaign, the players themselves take initiative on what they will do and you as the GM would just have the world respond. This requires more of a buy-in from the players because they would need to come up with nefarious plans.