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2019-03-29, 07:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2019
Help me figure out a M&M adventure!
Hi! I'm new, and I wanted some help with some Mutants and Masterminds plots for a supervillain I wanted to play with for my old rpg group:
Essentially, it's a mutated, half mad (but soft spoken) super scientist confined to a hover chair thanks to an accident in his lab, twisting his appearance into a twisted sea mammal form.
Any ideas will be deeply appreciated and will help me a hell ton for me writing the series.
Questions are welcome also!
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2019-03-30, 08:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
Re: Help me figure out a M&M adventure!
Well I think the general plots that Professor Manatee can indulge in include:
Turn everyone into manatees
Try to steal rare tech or components so he can reverse the transformation
The monster within wants to separate from him and remove the icky human parts
He kidnaps an aspiring country singer and confines her to his catacomb lair so he can make her his bride
Create a doomsday device to destroy all boat propellersFeel free to PM me if you want something PEACHed. I may not be one of the greats, but I'll do it if you ask.
"One of us is tender,
One of us is not,
One of us takes vengeance,
All four tied in a knot"
My homebrew
(U)sually in any game situation the biggest control freak will gravitate towards the job of being the GM anyway.
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2019-03-30, 09:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2012
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- Mayberry, NC
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2019-03-30, 10:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2006
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- Protecting my Horde (yes, I mean that kind)
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2019-03-30, 11:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2012
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Re: Help me figure out a M&M adventure!
When he hears about a treatment that may be able to cure him, the mad scientist turns to piracy to get enough money for the treatment (that may or may not work).
Kidnaps random people to mutate them into human/sea mammal hybrids so that he doesn't feel like he's the only one of his kind.
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2019-03-30, 04:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2006
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- Protecting my Horde (yes, I mean that kind)
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2019-03-30, 04:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2018
Re: Help me figure out a M&M adventure!
... Have I ever GMed for you before?
One of my recurring villains I fall back on in a pinch is Boss Walrus - who is a super-genius walrus that lures heroes into his high rises and nullifies their powers to demonstrate that he IS the superior species on earth.
I played around with him being a scientist who transferred his mind into a walrus around 2009 or so to save his life, but then ret-conned that when I left the pulpy stuff behind.
It just... sounds really familiar...
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2019-03-31, 11:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2012
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- Icewind Dale
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2019-04-01, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2014
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- A Room Between Rooms
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Re: Help me figure out a M&M adventure!
I would avoid the first part of this in M&M because all it would take is a few points in wealth for a hero to bankroll his treatment, completely defeating this villain permanently. But he IS kinda crazy so maybe not.
Instead lets, merge these two and say he's kidnapping people to try and cure himself using the kidnapped people as test subjects. First he has to recreate the conditions that mutated him, creating a plethora of mutated creatures to be used as needed in the plot; then he needs to create the cure for himself. Both of which require time, money, and rare/special maguffins.Last edited by Ken Murikumo; 2019-04-01 at 08:44 AM.
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2019-04-01, 11:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2019
Re: Help me figure out a M&M adventure!
Lord these are good,
Really surprised me honestly, I like the cure and kidnapping then mutating idea, some if his henchies could be those said victims/"volunteers" (maybe some people had something wrong with them or something and ended up on Dugongs table?)
And that's a no on the boss whale I'm afraid, I am somewhat new to throwing a M&M adventure but I do know most of the system off by heart though hahaLast edited by CaretakerJack; 2019-04-01 at 11:41 AM.
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2019-04-02, 10:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2011
Re: Help me figure out a M&M adventure!
Well, since he's kind of mad... ... ...
Build a giant robot that links up to his brain, so that he can go back to pursuing that Tap-Dancing Career he always wanted, no matter HOW much property damage it causes.
Build a device that shrinks any ship or boat with a propeller down to small bath toy scale as soon as it touches water, and anyone who happens to be on it. Never again will Manatee's fear the surfaces propellers!
Speaking of the surface, attempting to preform a coup d'état in Atlantis, possibly with an eye toward taking over the world with there advanced and/or magically powered army's.
Or maybe he's developed a machine to allow him to take total control of Cthulu, and he's trying to use it to acquire the great old one's power."I Burn!"
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2019-04-03, 05:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2006
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- Protecting my Horde (yes, I mean that kind)
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2019-04-06, 11:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2008
Re: Help me figure out a M&M adventure!
https://venturebrothers.fandom.com/w...=Dr_Dugong.jpg Hate to call ya out here but this character is from The Venture Bros.
Last edited by Pictogram; 2019-04-06 at 11:48 AM.
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2019-04-07, 12:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2012
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- Icewind Dale
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Re: Help me figure out a M&M adventure!
With the first part, I said the cure may or may not work. So even if the heroes do bankroll the treatment, the cure might not actually do anything, works temporarily before he turns back into his mutated self, or the cure might cause him to mutate even more.
Though I do like the idea that combines the two.