Super Heros and Their Colourful Duds!

[jamesq]

One of my goals for my Swinging Sixties Supers game is to get the PCs to start wearing costumes. Since all the earlier supers are WW2 vets who just want their houses and white picket fences, it's up to the second generation to do that. I've made no secret of this and the PCs are near to doing it.

One PC has basic Green Lantern powers (can make force fields in any shape desired and move them around). As a player, he's got a heavy streak of PC paranoia. In the games I've played with him his single defining feature is making sure he has multiple, redundant, defences up so that NPCs can never ever hurt him. I think it's a little silly, but then I'm the GM and therefore want to hurt him. Maybe doesn't count here?

R: "Can I form my force fields into a suit of armour?"
Me: "You can, but since you have to concentrate every time you want to actually move a limb, it's not that useful."
R: "Well how about a platform with a railing around it so I can fly?"
H: "You should just use a bubble. It's simpler"
R: "I don't want to fly into a scene in a bubble."
Me (excited): "You should make a surf board!"

The surf board idea, though derivative, does meet popular acclaim.

R: "We still don't know what kind of costume I should have. I should get my mom to sew it up for me."
M: "I can't wait to hear that conversation."
R: "'Mom, I'm going to a costume party, can I get you to sew me up a costume?'"
M: "You know what would be a good costume - something like The Spirit. Except it would probably need to be purple or something because he's a hippy."
Me: "So he should be Darkwing Duck is what you're saying?"

This is met with good-natured laughter all around.

Me: "Now that I think about it, Darkwing Duck actually has a really cool costume."