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« on: January 08, 2013, 07:40:44 PM »
I did a bit of research and put together a "master list" of choices for them to pick from. I read the idea of Coffey from another forum and liked the idea. We're essentially playing him as a good version of Solomon Grundy.
Here's the actual list I put together:
For some of these, I've listed authors meaning you can play the author or any of their characters.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Character List:
Teddy Roosevelt
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Edgar Allen Poe
Jack London
Harry Houdini
Alexander Dumas
Benjamin Franklin
Peter Pan
The Shadow
Agatha Christie
Rudyard Kipling
Edgar Rice Burroughs
John Coffey
The Phantom
Dick Tracy
The Lone Ranger/Tonto
Green Hornet
Mary Shelley
Bram Stoker
Christopher Robin
Doctor Dolittle
L. Frank Baum
John Carter
The Phantom of the Opera
As far as the pulp feel goes, yeah, I was originally going to use SotC for this game but when I decided on using Crowley and company as Villains as well as allowing the Shadow, I figured some of the powers and such from DFRPG would work a little better.
I should also throw in that the "M" for the team is Tesla. I was originally going to allow him as a PC option but decided I liked him as M a little better. There were some other options that I would have allowed had someone asked, Indiana Jones being one of them, along with Captain America or even Batman.
The guys playing Arthur and Coffey respectively aren't overly familiar with the pulp genre so I think that's why they decided on those. Arthur was originally going to play HG Wells but changed his mind. I'm genuinely surprised no one picked Dick Tracy or the Phantom, other than they might have felt redundant with Holmes and the Shadow already there.