Spectaculars is a game of comic book heroes and villains in its own entirely new comic book universe using a rules-light percentile % system. However, this universe is not predetermined, it takes more a "legacy board game"/living world approach. You start with knowing just a few basics and creating just a few characters. As more sessions are played, the setting will grow and change and become filled with memorable heroes, engaging villains, and stories of the clash between them. It's perfectly suitable for oneshots, but if you return to the game, you may see old locations and characters reappear. It's a living world, so what happens in a session can affect the universe we play in. Things like your reputation with the public, media and government are shared between games as well. Come play in our city just once or come back time and time again, the choice is yours! Today's adventure takes place in the Explorers of the Unknown branch of our comic book universe. This branch is themed around super science, exploration, and incredible threats of inhuman proportions. It hearkens back to silver age stories of astronaut families, inventors, mad scientists, alien invasions, and artifacts of unknowable science and incredible power. Join a team of Prodigies and come save the day! Your team is full of the brightest and boldest minds, heroes who showed great promise in making their mark on the world even before they gained their powers. Examples from popular comics include the Avengers® (Marvel) and the Justice League of America® (DC). When a band of evil minions invades a government building, taking hostages and setting up strange devices, everything points to the first steps of a villainous plan being set into motion. Can you save the city?

This game will be great if you like superheroes, a living world, rules-light systems, lots of freedom and creative problem-solving. 

New players are welcome. 

The game runner has run this game a few times now. 

The game runner will provide pre-generated characters to pick from. 

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Characters start with an archetype and are further customized by combining different cards drawn from various decks to determine team roles, identity, and powers. Created heroes go into a common pool, so players can select any existing character or pick an unused archetype to make a new one. The game runner will send you your choices in advance. Any last-minute signups can only be picked from the pre-existing pool. 

This game will be hosted in room #2 of the Pickup Con server. Spectators are welcome. The con runner will be using using Miro whiteboards for mapping. https://miro.com/

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