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...and then, you'd be vaporized by my LIGHTNING vision!!!

A few days ago I purchased a couple of source books for my Heroes Unlimited Table-top RPG. For those of you that don't know what that is, we're both probably better off that way. In any case, the way the game works is that you make a super hero and play as him in the adventure world of the GM's making.

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This brings us to ponder the question, "If I were a super hero, what kind of super hero would I be?" Now, for many of you I'm sure the first thing you think of when I say super hero is Superman. Let me explain why you don't want to be a Superman type character.

#1- Flying is for pansies. Real super heroes take the bus.
#2- Extremely retarded looking costume, you want to avoid that or the villains will laugh you out of the abandoned chemical factory.
#3- At early levels, having heat vision is good for little more than warming pop tarts.
#4-Being virtually unstoppable gets quite boring after a while and the GM will just kill you to give the game some excitement.
#5-All the other super heroes will beat you up and take your lunch money.

"So, if not "Superman" then what DO I want to be?" You may ask...

Well, here is one of my favorites, why not be a bionic man? That way you don't have some lame reason for getting your super powers (i.e. Flogdar the Mystic give you the Emerald of UBER power.) By being a bionic man you can make up some cool story about how your character got blown to bits in the Korean war, still has a bit of the shrapnel in the leg, and had to have virtually his entire body replaced.

Maybe if making gear-shifting noises every time you go to the bathroom isn't your thing, you can choose to be a mutant. Mutants are pretty cool. They have straightforward backgrounds too. Either they were born that way, or got messed up in a horrific SCIENCE experiment. Then you can make them really ridiculously huge and/or they can have green hair. That’s pretty cool.

The possibilities are endless, just remember to make sure your character is actually cool and doesn't do completely lame stuff like "sense other people's emotions." What!? Who gives a flying pancake??? I want to see you melt steel with a fire bolt! ROCK ON!!!

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