There are three main types of Non-Powered Character Archetypes.
- These archetypes are definitely IC categorizations. OOC, the jupiter effect includes special gadgets. Anything that is above the norm. Note that one can have a 'non-powered' character with gadgets, but the technology level would be nothing surprising by today's RL standards. The sort of things seen in spy movies and intrigue that isn't pseudo-science. The movies based on Tom Clancy's works or the Bourne movies? Good. Mission Impossible? Skirting the edge. Alias? Out there. --JupiterAdmin
Tech: You are a hero, villain, or self-interested grey, who participates in the whole super-power scheme of things. You may even be a rock star media darling yourself, or a shadow. The difference is all of your powers come from technology. It can be as extreme as powered armor like Iron Man from Marvel, or as low as aides from a utility belt like Batman. If you are a hero who has no powers but focuses on martial arts, chances are you use some kind of tech when confronted with meta’s. Black Widow, of Marvel’s Avengers, for example has no super powers but has her “Widow’s Bite” laser beam wrist bracelets. Full scale Robots also fall into this category, from Marvel’s Vision and Ultron, to DC’s “Amazo” sentient robots created by scientific geniuses have always been a part of the genre, and you can play one as part of the Tech class.
Positives: Humans without powers fighting or even committing crime are considered underdogs by the media, so you get the sympathy vote from them creating powerful rock star status. Robots are viewed by the media as “Awesome” next wave technology, and so sentient robots also can get huge rock star status.
Negatives: Super Scientists who have created a unique tech are considered Metas by the government, and thus require registration, though vigilantes probably won’t get too much interference. You have no powers without your tech, so if you are caught without it you will be vulnerable. If you are a robot, you can be turned off, reprogrammed, or potentially even duplicated, so guarding your schematics is of prime consequence to you.
Practical Rp: There are tons of examples of Tech heroes, villains, and greys and this character archetype can be fun and full of challenge.
Government Agents: You are James Bond, or Nick Fury. You are a government agent of the DMHA, the FBI, the NSA, the CIA, or perhaps even a foreign agency like M16, the Mossad, or Russian Intelligence. Your job is to carry out whatever missions the government has for you. You are generally very skilled, and involved in spy missions more than “super hero” theatrics. Part of the problem your agency superiors have is that metas have infiltrated every part of society. Your job is to find them and root them out, or give them assistance depending on the government’s attitude towards that meta.
Positives: You’re a coolio spy! You get full support of the government, get to make the metas lives a living hell if you can, and “Q” will give you super-cool gadgets to play with.
Negatives: You don’t have powers. Don’t whine, you chose the archetype, not me!
Practical Rp: There are a ton of “shadow” players and your job is to root them out, along, most likely, with keeping a steady eye on both corporate and meta “power players”. The United States government is still rocky and precarious after just preventing the One World Government scenario from actually taking place. The vulnerabilities in that situation were seized upon by many. Your job is to stop them and put the power back in the hands of Washington.
Civvies: You are a member of society, a perfectly normal human with no aspirations to battle on the streets as one of the meta’s like those tech vigilantes. Instead, you play a different role in human society. You could be a prominent scientist, a member of the media covering events, a criminal overlord, a police chief. You are limited only to your imagination.
Positives: You have a skill set and probably specialize in a way no other character class does.
Negatives: No powers, no tech. If a super battle occurs near you, RUN FOR IT.
Practical RP: Whether you are playing the character as support of one of the other archetypes, or as an influential character who has an agenda, civvies lend diversity to a super hero game environment. They provide flavor and provide a different manner of threat or ally for the meta-humans in the game.
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