I like this – Boaz‘s idea of how our superhero campaign (starting a new one, as we often do…) should look like:
I liked the secret societies angle – the Benandanti and the vamps’ clans, for example. Keepers of masquerades, and 0wners of government agencies. Men-In-Black sort of outfits.
Aliens? Extra-Dimensional beings? They surely affected humankind, probably bred into humanity – hence – supes.
Think Marvel or DC universes in all their possibilities and adopting every myth possible, think no skin-tights or glowing blasts, think masquerade. Think gods walk among us and have to deal with insane guys with gadgets and martial arts, people born far away dealing with their 8th generation offspring that have been here for awhile. In a world where a skilled cat burglar can hang out with someone who can cause genocide just by being cranky in the morning. A world where you can escape your bunny-boiler ex using that nicely disguised spaceship that people have been thinking was their water tower for years. A world where one Bartender from the Village can make a difference in a galaxy scale millennia ancient feud, just by giving a good advice and making a killer Bloody Mary.
How’s that sound?