Thrythlind

I have a black wolf, yeah, thinking of picking up a few others here and there. Picked up a spider too, but doubt I'll field it. One of my friends is severely arachnaphobic, so putting the spider out would limit my ability to share the character with them.

@Tahliah This is the character. And there's a second Red-Riding Hood person too.

I posted about her in the Mastermind forum earlier "Just expressing my enjoyment of this character" or something like that.

Got my first ever mastermind (and I've been playing since third wave beta) to 50 this week, and she's a Beasts Mastermind based on Red Riding Hood, dipped an hour or so to villain to get sharks so she has all the animal friends... But still would indeed like the girl gang thing. I did a throw off comment once of "what if my hero and her soccer team decide to clean the streets or something" and now I really want to do it.

Understandable.... but I'd still like to see female possibilities for the humanoid sets.

Míša Kedzierski, aka A Modern Red

Slotting inherents feels like it's a dangerous precedent, but I do wish things like Vigor and Spiritual healing boosts improved minion stats.

Neat costume. Going to go ahead and post Misa's Bio, Power list, Scion char sheet, and the reference card I gave the artists. Bio/Powers display Artist's reference card. Scion 2e Origin Level char sheet.

Yeah, I'm thinking of slotting chance of hold in School of Sharks.

Oh yeah, btw:

Yeah, this option I thought of is basically putting a lot of the design work on the individual players and I'm uncertain of the tech levels involved. I imagine it would create some really damn ugly things. I'd actually prefer, as I said 2 to 3 alternate sets... Like female options of the base Mercs, Ninjas, Thugs, and Necromancy. More humanistic demons. Alternate monstrous demons. Alternate Robots. Less rotting undead and more spectral or maybe grey unrotting bodies. Male and Female Jock/Athlete variations for the Thugs. Or maybe common folk for a "roused the neighborhood" type vibe. Alternate animal sets. Maybe spy themed variants for ninja. But full pre-built sets is art intensive.

I've also been vocal about it since I came to Homecoming, I believe. And to be honest this is much more customization than I'd be satisfied with two or three alternate set pieces including male/female options.

Are these better to put in your pets or your direct attacks?

Thinking about this, the easiest to do this for would be Thugs, Mercenaries, Necromancy, and Ninjas because they use the humanoid skeleton already so animations wouldn't need to be changed. Though I'd also like to see this sort of thing for every MM set.

Wait. I DO have some new art. I was just thinking about this as Scion 2e art because I've made a Scion of Mokosh I hope to play based on my Beasts Mastermind, A Modern Red. So, here's some headshots of Míša Kedzierski, aka A Modern Red. And one with some friends.

No real comment on mechanics. But this is such a fun build. Wolves and lions and winter wolf and bees and hawks and ravens and sharks and vines and flowers and mushrooms and..... It's like being a Shepherd Druid in a superhero setting. Character is A Modern Red... and, yes, she's Red Riding Hood themed. Portrait Screen shots:

Huh.

But doesn't adding Heal SOs to a Mastermind power improve the HP of the summons?

I only have a few old ones from back in live. First some bits of my first character who I played from the last days of Beta to close (though less so as she hit 50), my Dark/Regen Scrapper Blood Rose, aka Anno Yuki. My original thought was a plant/human hybrid sort of modeled on Kodachi Kuno, but as I got deeper into the lore, I decided that she'd either been affected by or was the Devouring Earth mutations. She had a special dislike for the Council and 5th Column for kidnapping her kids and killing her husband and the DE had a special hate for as a perceived traitor. Art pieces by Daniel Fu (believe it was at a convention) and RoninDude (DeviantArt) Next is a character I made right out of Beta. My Fire/Fire godzilla-girl tank I played with my family and friends team, Wyrmling. (originally just supposed to be a dragon-lady, but The Green Team look made her look more Godzilla, ergo her eventual battle-cry of "Your kaiju-fu is not strong!" Also my brothers and friends. Trying to remember all the names now. Ah, found the Deviant Art entry: My RL family team, including some family friends. This was our roster at its largest. Wyrmling: Fire/Fire/Energy Tank Veridian Ankh: Empathy/Psychic/Psychic Defender GreenMach: Electricity/Electricity/Electricity Blaster Tejou: Gravity/Kinetics/Earth Controller Kenka Suru: Claws/Reflexes/Body Scrapper Frost Beetle: Ice/Devices Blaster rockbody: Earth/Earth Tank Surge Protector: Elec/Devices Blaster The Roster pic and the goofy Wyrmling destroying things pic were done by Drowtales. The bit with Wyrmling sitting on a building throne is John Becaro. I'm trying to remember who did the pic of her standing over a defeated koopa monster. Next is my Darkness / Electricity Defender, Trying to remember the artists who did Endcaller Mara. And then some pics of assorted other characters, Calico Rey (a what-if Ranma Saotome and Tanya Rey of Gold-Diggers had a kid), Satyr-Dae, a defender that I believe was Storm/Lightning. Annnd a piece of art that I got from Fred Perry (someone else colored it) around when the game was shutting down. Calico Rey and Castle Rat were both inspired by his characters (Castle-Rat was my cosplaying wererat scrapper, in this case she's cosplaying Calico... who is unamused that a much more powerful hero is dressed as her) and Medusae aka Terra Black, whom Fred had drawn another commission of a while before. I have more of Terra, but this is the only pic that's really CoH specific since I've had her around a few settings.

I've not taken a Mastermind to Incarnate before and I find myself wonder a few things. If I take Vigor as an Alpha would that impact my minions Max Health? Are there any other bits of advice to consider?

As a note "how hard would it be" is not sarcastic. I'm seriously uncertain. Also, the one set this wouldn't be a decent (assuming technically possible) solution for is Beasts mastermind since you couldn't do most animals with the humanoid limits would prevent the creation of most animals.... though you could do were-critters, TMNT style mutants, or anime-style kemonomimi.

Melee cone attacks are very finicky. It's more trouble than it's worth to go for more than two people with them. If I hit three, bonus. If I hit four or the max five? Awesome, but I don't expect it.

Relatively recently, the Illusion Control power of Decoys was altered to allow the decoys to appear as the character's costume. And I was wondering how difficult to have the summons for some Mastermind sets to be tied to specific costume slots for the Mastermind. I know this would mean that Masterminds that go for that would essentially have 3 fewer costume slots, But it does feel like something I'd be willing to do. (Heck, I'd be willing to sacrifice six slots out of 10 to give each minion a unique look) Maybe as an option in Power Customization for the power.

Bumping this for visibility. Also the thing I most want: option to set Thugs/Mercenaries/Ninjas to male, female, or both/either. That alone opens up a lot of concepts.

Why does everybody say Perez Park is dangerous?