absolute evil and card design

[Jack]

We will fill in all missing Characters on the Location cards, if not in this set, it would be in the next one. No modifications of Locations, our goal is to make the cards compliment the set, not the other way around.

Having said that, I strongly encourage the group to create Thanos. It boggles my mind to this day as to why he never made it into a set. Maybe Thanos was thought of as too powerful or too unbalanced to be included in OverPower, but Darkseid made it in for DC and Malebolgia made it to Image, and both of them are very strong in terms of their grid. Also, with Avengers 2 coming up in the 2014/15, Thanos would be a perfect character to add to OverPower. Perhaps two new characters can be added, to match the two characters given to us in The Marvels, with perhaps a vote being taken to determine which two characters are created.

We are not restricting ourselves to 2 characters, Marvels only had 3 new Character cards (technically only 1 new character) because that was the blueprint given to us from The Reserves. Officially, Marvels had 25 characters with most being reprints for starter decks.

[thetrooper27]

Alright... when thinking of new characters, I'm thinking about a previous post Jack, where you mentioned you used art for the Marvels from the era that the game was popular, to keep with the genuine feel, or something along those lines (I'm paraphrasing).  Do you think we should only add characters that were around during the same time that OverPower was around? 

If so, what are some cool badguys to consider within the boundaries of OverPower's production?

[Jack]

I wanted to create the set of Marvels as if it wasn't cancelled back in the early 2000's.

For future sets, anything goes. I don't want to keep the game within that era of comics and I see AE using newer characters in addition to characters from the past. AE would be our vision and there's really no blueprint to follow except for the name, which we should keep.

[BasiliskFang]

Characters mentioned on Locations:
Blink - Hero
Abomination - AE
Expediter - ?
Shatterstar - Hero
Viper - AE
Mephisto - AE
Sauron - AE
Lizard - AE
Klaw - AE

Image:
Cy-Gor
Ballistic
Spartan

Characters that are variants:
Shang Chi - could probably do something with heroes for hire
X-Men - new team keeping the prof x opd IA.

[thetrooper27]

Okay, I think we should do everyone on a location card.  After that, how bout we all throw some ideas out there and then vote!  I love voting!:)

Okay, how about:

Red Hulk?
Daredevil: King of Shadowland (or maybe Hand's new special could be DD on his throne!)
Sandman?
Genesis?
Cyber?
Emplate?
Spiral? (If we do Shatterstar, why not do Spiral?)
Avalanche?
Pyro?
Vulcan?
Kraven the Hunter?

[BasiliskFang]

Winter soldier
Bhood of mutants- may play magneto opds.
Dormammu
Horsemen of apoc-  may play Polaris, hulk, sunfire and (wolvie or gambit or angel) non opd.
Lady death strike
Blackheart
Stryfe
Adam warlock: magus
Mimic(4m)- he will have his own grid but will otherwise be like beyonder.
Whiplash
Ultron
William Stryker
Vengeance

I'd really like to see moon knight in a future set.

[steve2275]

i do know that bios has an ultron that is 7267
from his avengers set

fq(no ko with strength cards) ju(teamwork) hf(6 e or i) ic(all ultron) bv(play and draw 1 card. next turn )

[TGW]

I'm all for plenty of new characters being added to the game. I only mentioned two in the event the purists would be upset with adding totally new characters to the game, but when you think about it, this forum, the facebook page, and some other offshoots represent the whole of the OP community, so if everyone else is okay with an assortment of characters, count me in as well.

My favorite Marvel bad guys not yet represented on an official OverPower card would be:

Thanos, Loki, Mephisto, Kang, Zemo, Ultron, Annihilus

I also enjoy the villains that make up Spider-Man's rogue gallery, which is one reason I'm looking forward to Bio's set, so I can print the character cards for Kraven, Lizard, Sandman, Electro, Chameleon, and all the rest

Slightly off-topic, but I wouldn't mind a Hope Summers character card. If anyone has a good custom they'd like to share, hit me up.

[BasiliskFang]

Te last few post have 36 new villains. Sounds like a good amount.

[binarymelon]

I like the idea of adding in more characters as someone who is essentially new to the game it will also help people get into the game instead of just supplementing the cards of those long time players.  Will the set only include villains or will it possibly have a small group of heroes as well?

[Jack]

Only villains for AE.

[BasiliskFang]

Only villains for AE.

but x-men had Typhoid Mary, spider-girl, variant heroes....

[TGW]

Only villains for AE.

but x-men had Typhoid Mary, spider-girl, variant heroes....

X-Men was a set like Classic, which featured an assortment of heroes and villains, along with variant characters and teams. Absolute Evil is the sister set to the Marvels, which featured special cards for only the heroes of Marvel. With the exception of the five specials to be created for Warlock to make him a playable character, I'm pretty sure the plan is to have special cards for only the villains of Marvel, along with creating some new Marvel bad guys.

[breadmaster]

well, my idea for the set when i started out was:

-one special for each existing villain
-completing the 7 (or 8 if you count expediter) villains appearing on locations

then adding some extras to 'complete' what exists already

-4 specials for 'heroes' that didn't get marvels cards (xbabies/morlocks/shiar/scarlet spider)
-completing the 2 heroes on locations (shatterstar/blink)
-making an aspect for each location (i counted 18)
-adding 6 specials for warlock

-and possibly a galactus special

so the set would be approximately 170 new cards (plus any duplicates we decide to add)

[thetrooper27]

I'm all about some new aspects if anyone else is, maybe at the very least another any homebase aspect.

I was also thinking a new anycharacter would be cool.

It would be nice to include every character on an existing location... Expediter too.

I like breadmaster's breakdown.  How many new villains do you guys think would be appropriate?   That's a big set... not that I mind, of course.