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101 plots for superhero rpgs
Whether for games such as Champions, Mutants and Masterminds, Truth and Justice, or any of other superhero tabletop role playing games out there, these are the ideas for those kind of games.
You know, for the fun of it.
1. A super villain holds the city hostage with his flying Fortress.
2. A "Bonnie and Clyde" couple use their superpowers to commit robberies, with each robbery getting bigger than the previous one.
3. Law enforcement from another planet ask the PCs to help them find an alien fugitive who came to earth to hide.
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4. A giant monstrosity has risen out of the ground in the middle of the city. It's appearance alone has caused many blocks of collateral damage, and conventional weaponry can't even stop it. It also appears to be crying and clumsily trying to avoid breaking things but ends up hitting something else.
5. People are found strangled in roots and vines in the local park or forest. Plant life is also growing much faster then it reasonably should. Can your heros figure out the mystery before it's too late?
6. A hulking figure in medieval armour is walking stomping around the city demanding a worthy challenger or their cutting everyone to pieces. So far everyone who challenged them has died by their blade.
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7. The new governor has finally gotten his superhero registration legislation enacted.
8. Footage of astronauts being attacked by purple creatures on the Moon goes viral.
9. Buildings downtown have disappeared and been replaced with a giant, prehistoric swamp. Dinosaurs are wandering away into the city.
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10. There is a virus going around affecting super-powered individuals, which weakens their powers. Can the heroes trace the virus to the source, and can they find the cure before it is too late?
11. Valuables around the city are suddenly disappearing. Can our heroes figure out what is the cause of these disappearances and put a stop to it?
12. An object turns up, and it gives superpowers to any normal person who touches it. Can the situation be contained before it spirals out of control?
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13. Gorillas. It doesn't matter how or why. Silver Age comics had lots of gorillas.
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12. Goverment goes wacko can heros lead rebelion to fix every thing
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13. Space pirate shows up and holds a city ransom the end of his blaster cannons. The pirate may or may not be using a spaceship that looks a high tech version of a ship from the Golden Age of Piracy.
14. The world's greatest hero has gone rogue! What do you do?
15. That one supervillain, you know the really the crazy one, escaped from prison and kidnapped the mayor! Who knows what foul atrocity awaits the city's highest elected official?
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16. People around the city are in a deep sleep and cannot wake up! Upon investigating, the heroes learn that a super villain is holding the people prisoner in some kind of "dream world."
17. Weird things start to happen in the local museum. An investigation leads the heroes to the museum's newest exhibit, which turns out to be cursed/haunted.
18. A mad scientist builds a weather machine to hold the city for ransom, but the machine malfunctions and goes out of control as it generates a storm that could become powerful enough to destroy the entire city! Can the heroes stop it before it is too late?
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19. The south rises again....wait what ? yes thats right - the heroes wake up one day to discover that there are two governments running their country (USA/CSA for the US).......how did this happen, why does every one think this has always been the case...or more likely why do the players think this WASNT always the case ?
20. Above the sea: A renegade Atlantean/Lemurian/what have you leads his armies of machines/magic constructs/biomancy abominations to the surface to conquer [INSERT CITY OR STATE HERE ], can the heroes stop him before he sinks it below the sea?!
21. Sky Pirates: on an isolated interstate road and out at sea coming into [CITY]....ships and trucks carrying valuable cargos are being attacked by heavily armed mercenaries with heavy lift VTOL's, jet packs and tons of weaponry. Their cargos stolen and every single victim reports that mysterious banks of clouds rolled in moments before they were attacked.
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22. A lost civilization of dinosaur men from the center of the earth re-emerge, having just undergone military revolution by General Tyros Prime!
23. The city the heroes are in is suddenly transported to an alien world, ground and all, and the heroes must figure out why, and how to return home safely.
24. An alien ship arrives and begins siphoning electricity from the world's cities, plunging whole countries into darkness. The thing is, the ship seems more indifferent than malicious, and the best efforts of the military don't even seem to register.
25. A small time crook happens to discover a genie in a lamp that gives him three wishes of unlimited potential - which could be quite devastating, if he weren't such a moron.
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26. The building of City Hall and everybody inside it has suddenly vanished! Can the heroes get to the bottom of this mystery and return City Hall to its rightful place?
27. There is an event where a famous superhero is supposed to make a special appearance, but when the hero doesn't show up, it is up to the heroes to figure out what happened, and where the famous hero went?
28. A famous superhero is making an appearance, but the event takes a turn when a supervillain and his minions interrupt! Can the heroes help the "superstar" fight off the attack?
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29. A famous superhero makes an appearance but something is off. They are either under some rather heavy narcotics or this is some bizarre marionette puppet/rubber suit/even worse of them. Ok, I'm pretty sure the human body isn't supposed to do whatever they just did.
30. A famous superhero makes an appearance but their face falls off to reveal wires and machinery. And this isn't that guy who's a cyborg.
31. A famous superhero makes an appearance but gets some facts about themselves wrong. Also the scar under their ear is missing.
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32. A famous superhero appears but he's a dog.
33. In fact, everyones are dogs.
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34. The heroes wake up one morning to discover that they are the most famous team in the world, with talk show appearances and licensing deals and multi-million dollar charities, and they're the only ones that find this weird. It's pretty rad, until they start to discover things about their new lives that aren't so great...
35. All over the world, things suddenly start growing at random. Car-chomping ants and microbes the size of terriers. That would be bad enough, until they realize that they're not growing; most of the world is SHRINKING.
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36. The heroes somehow find themselves in a world where the supervillains are the heroes and the superheroes are the villains! Can our heroes find a way back to the world they're familiar with?
37. A new costumed villain is committing crimes across the city. But the villain seems to be everywhere at once! Can the heroes stop all these villains?
38. There is a new superhero in town! But the new hero appears to be inexperienced with his/her powers, causing collateral damage and putting bystanders in danger! How can the heroes resolve this problem?
39. A super-genius has taken control over all the computers and electronics in the city, and his demands aren't met, he/she will make the chaos much worse! Can the heroes locate the super-genius and pull the plug on his/her scheme?
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40. Someone has found the 'cure' for superpowers, and is planning on disseminating it in a virus on the local population.
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41. A rocket ship has landed outside of town. When the PCs get there, there is a small fire, a creature flying around on fire, and a horrible looking orange alien trying to hit the first one with a tree.
[See how long they will fight the "aliens" before they figure out that they’ve just blundered into the origin of the Fantastic Four.]
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42. In the criminal underworld, somebody put a bounty on the heads of the heroes! Will they be able to fight off every criminal and supervillain who comes after them? And when and how will it stop?
43. A monster is loose in the city! It is tearing apart everything in its path, searching for its creator. Can the heroes stop the monster from causing anymore damage? And where is the monster's creator?
44. Aliens have come to mine for strange energy crystals that were deposited into the earth a long time ago. But then aliens don't seem to care that their drilling operation is destroying the city!
45. A mad scientist is capturing every superpowered-being in the city/country/world! He plans on using their superpowers to provide power for his doomsday device! Can our heroes stop the madman and free all the superpowered beings, or will they be added to the sinister device's power source?
46. There is a strange virus going around that gives people superpowers! Can the heroes find a cure for the virus, and put a stop to the outbreak?
47. The city is being invaded by aliens! With fleets of alien ships hovering over the city, alien foot soldiers deployed into the streets, and war machines engaging the police and military forces! Can the heroes emerge victorious in this fight?
48. A supervillain rises from the dead, and leads legions of undead into the city! Can the heroes thwart the villain's conquest and send him/her back to the grave?
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49. A series of political killings match the powers and MO of a fringe superhero with a dark reputation. Have they gone off the deep end? Are they being framed? Are they being mind controlled for someone else's nefarious ends?
50. The heroes receive a phone in the mail, over which a snot-nosed teenager informs them that he, criminal mastermind that he is, has planted gas bombs all over the city, and he'll detonate them one by one unless they indulge his petty, self aggrandizing orders. Are there really bombs? Can they risk it, especially since his orders aren't illegal so much as humiliating and irritating? What kind of temper-tantrum meltdown will he have when they finally get the better of him?
51. A magic axe is discovered which, when touched, possesses the wielder with the ghost of the ancient barbarian king within, who then goes on a conquest-rampage.
52. The aforementioned magic axe attempts to summon the ghosts of its fallen army, in order to take over the world.
53. The aforementioned axe magically challenges the President of the United States to trial by combat. Thanks to the spells involved, the president must accept or else face dire consequences. The superheroes must figure out how to coach the president to win. (Please, no political responses. Consider this the "off brand" president so popular in comic books.)
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54. A bunch of super villains have formed a team, and with their combined powers they pull off crime after crime. Can the heroes put a stop to their crime spree?
55. The greatest superhero organization (equivalent to the Justice League or the Avengers) are looking for heroes to become their newest members! Do our heroes have what it takes to impress the judges and earn a place in the organization?
56. There is a crime ring in the city, and they've been really busy. Can the heroes put a stop to their operations and find out who is leading this crime ring?
57. A cult is preparing to summon a deity from another dimension. Can the heroes stop the summoning before it's too late?
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58.) A supervillain is stealing all the world's monuments
59.) California's medical marijuana dispensaries are being attacked by a villain named Captain Buzzkill
60.) The criminal underworld has teamed up with the actual underworld and the area is overrun with witchcraft powered super-mobsters
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61. A villainous genius has stolen forty cakes. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.
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62. Gorillas! Why are there so many gorillas?
63. Holy great apes! Mighty primates of all kinds are attacking the city!
64. You need to travel across dimensions to capture the bad guy, the one you end up everybody is an ape of some kind. Superape, Batape, Wonder Chimp, Irongutan, Spider-Monkey, Mister Fantas-ape, you get the idea.
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65. Low level gang violence and drug peddling is secretly being conducted by super villains that are trying to fund other operations under the radar.
66. Super powered individuals have been mandated to leave the country voluntarily. Its not a villain plan -- but villains capitalize on the idea.
67. Powerful and well-meaning super heroes decide to take over government and rule the people benevolently. Though they have the best intentions and have the power to do so, its an illegal act.
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68. The voodoo pantheon are real and the loas are riding their horses (posessing ordinary citizens) to create mayhem. Baron Samedei, Maman Brigette and Marinette in particular are very troublesome.
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69. Someone is building robot copies of various superheroes, that are doing their jobs more efficiently! Is this a plot to drive existing superheroes out of heroing...?
70. Why is Niagra falls in Wyoming? Did China always have a set of Great Lakes? And... who ever heard of the great Pyramids of Switzerland? Something's funny here...
71. The Earth is invaded by people who are supposedly from its own future, who have turned to attacking the past in order to gain control of a habitable planet.
72. A massive temporal distortion drops a dystopian megacorporation's main office building into the center of Manhattan.
73. A famous musician made a deal with "the man at the crossroads", and is now on the run trying to avoid paying up... with the hosts of hell chasing after him.
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74.) The league of evil have bribed their way into appointments to high political offices
75.) All the newspapers are going out of business thanks to the internet. The heroes must find new day jobs.
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76 Inversion happend now you need to fix it
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77. There's a hit new concert that all the kids are going to but at the end of the performance it takes over their minds, making them to go out and commit acts of destruction all around the city.
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78. A squad of superpowered thieves specialized in knockout tactics (The Dream Team) have been robbing banks. A different squad impersonating them but without the preference for knockout tactics takes up bank robbery as well, and the PCs are left in the position of trying to stop both and to sort out which squad is which, particularly if they happen to be robbing different banks at the same time.
79. A team of masked villains with military equipment have been murdering the city homeless at night, and leaving their mutilated bodies outside homeless shelters to terrify the survivors. The police can't seem to do anything about it - and worse, when the PCs uncover them it turns out that the team is comprised of the police chief and several senior officers, and the rest of the police refuse to arrest them.
80. Horrific monsters are appearing in the city every night and wreaking havoc. It turns out that they're being created accidentally by a dreaming child in their nightmares, with a power they can't control.