So, I happened to stumble across a discussion on the forums regarding superpowers, and this ended up jolting me back to a discussion I had with an RPing friend some week previous. He mentioned that a lot of character with abilities don't stand up well as regular people, as their power is often their only defining characteristic.

I began dwelling on this, and I hit upon something, totally out of the blue, that I thought could, possibly, be interesting to try. I've been watching a lot of Being Human recently and I've admired how that's managed to extract the humanity from a supernatural show, and I thought this could also be done with gifted types.

Basically, it'd be a story about being with powers, brought down to earth. A group of a few people, possibly sharing a house or something, who have strange abilities. They'd need to be pretty well thought out ones of course..and I'd be hoping to find some awesome people who could take rather tired cliche abilities and rework them into something exciting, start really thinking about them.

-Would a fire manipulator be bricking it every time they were around gas/petrol stations?

-Would an electricity manipulator attract hostility from the housemates by inadvertently killing electrical items when he sneezes?

-How much bacon does a wolf shapeshifter get through in a week?

-Can a water manipulator ruin people's showers?

It'd be something that was character and interaction focused, rather than action and fighting focused (though of course bad things may happen as things go) and would be more about how these odd, unique characters attempt to blend in with the world and bounce off one another.


Please do post if any of this sort of thing might appeal to you.

I've never actually looked at the American version. Reactions from people I know who've seen it have varied from 'Eh, it's not as good as the original, but it's okay.' to 'SHUUNNNN' so I haven't really bothered too much with it.

Anyway, glad to hear I've got some interest. I've been a fan of RPs involving special abilities, but I often feel they rather gloss over a lot of the issues, and powers can often get used as a crutch to avoid developing a character much more than 'I have powers and they have made my life awesome/terrible'.

I'd like to try something that's a bit more down to earth about the whole thing. It's not to say that there won't be any sort of plot arcs with danger and the like, but I think it'd be all the more compelling if these were problems facing regular people who happen to have abilities, rather than a bunch of superheroes without the costumes.

Oh you certainly don't need to have seen it, or even heard of it, to enjoy the RP, it's just something that gave me the idea to deconstruct the genre a bit.

Quirky is something that I'd probably encourage on this, as it's going to have lots of focus on character development, and a lot about the characters playing off one another, so some differing personality types would be useful.


Anyway, once I've got my own character worked out, I'll make an RP and link it here.