Superheroes + medieval fantasy = ?
WotC-era D&D
>>46434048
The Knights of the Round Table.
>>46434048
most high fantasy
Finnish mythology? Those guys have a lot of crazy people that qualify as superheroes instead of deities, anyway.
>>46434048
As in, outrageous costumes, alter egos and fancy names, the whole thing?
Because if not, you'll get >>46434079 and >>46434058
>>46434138
Speaking of, is there such a setting already?
Exalted is along those lines, though it's more eastern themed.
>>46434171
>>46434138
Arthurian fantasy.
Full of people with superpowers, outrageous castles, stupid (symbolic) names and outrageous costumes. Look at the Green Knight. Literally everything about him is green and he's unkillable.
Remind you of anyone?
>>46434349
Arthurian myth kinda filtered crazy superpowers out over time. When was the last time you heard of Lancelot being as strong as an army's worth of men or Kai turning into a monster?
>>46434349
Don't forget that Jason and the Argonauts was literally The Avengers of the Greek world.
Bunch of demigods (superheroes) riding in a talking boat around the Aegean, fighting monsters and banging cuties.
>>46434407
Yep. It was crossover fanfiction with all the famous heroes going on a single voyage together
>>46434435
To be fair, Heracles fucked off early in the trip
>>46434397
Fate/Zero
Didn't Marvel already do that?
>>46434407
Yeah but it was still ancient Greece so 5x as violent and they raped/kidnapped qts
It's the morality of the time. Just like how Achilles got mad asspained about giving up his sex slave to Agamemnon. And that was another superhero setting: the Trojan war
>>46434675
To be fair, the Trojan war was the sort of superhero setting, where half of the superpeople involved are made for this specific story and get reduced into mincemeat
Not medieval, but Marvel 1602 was pretty good.
Generic setting and generic plot
I think one thing that defines superhero genre is that everyone empowered is personalized. For example, only Iron Man and his explicit knock-offs tend to have power armour, if everyone had it, that would not be superhero genre, that would be sci-fi about power armour, like Starship Troopers.
So lots of people with superpowers and no uniformity among them (So there's a wizard that turn people into sheep and a wizard that can drink all water in the river, and not just a generic wizard with assortment of spells). Basically what >>46434349 said.
>>46434956
There's a lot of very generic speed/strength superheroes
>>46435035
There's also a ton of unnamed knights
>>46435035
There's only so much distinct powers, sure, but superhero status does not have default loadout. Compare to most modern fantasy wizards, for example. Harry Potter is defined as a wizard and draws from a pool of abilities thousands of wizards can draw because wizarding is defined as a generic label.
Why don't we make a setting?
What kind of fantasy tropes should it follow? What kind of superhero tropes?
In my opinion here are the musts:
S) The setting is primarily mundane, with supers being exceptional
F) Magic exists but wielded by few
F) There are magical creatures and non-human humanoids
S) Supers aren't afraid to stand out. They use distinctive outfits and cool names. Some hide their real identity
S) There must be some way to spread the info about stuff happening fast than by word of mouth
>>46435710
>S) There must be some way to spread the info about stuff happening fast than by word of mouth
Super minstrels that are somehow always there to narrate things?
bump
>>46436404
Telepathic minstrel society? Self-cloning bards?
FUCKING NEWSPAPERS?
Speaking of:
S) Secret cultures. All those Atlantises, Kun-Luns and Tir-Na-Nogs
S) Secret societies and conspiracies
F) Kings, Lords, (ig)noble Houses
S) Big fucking cities as primary locations
>>46434048
=D&D.
People with superhuman powers in stupid outfits fighting silly cartoony villains, and being characterized mainly by the specific way they fight those villains.
>>46434454
>Heracles = Hulk
>>46436483
>Telepathic minstrel society? Self-cloning bards?
Nobody know, it can't be explained, they're just there.
Like you just escaped a dungeon with a secret manuscript and you start reading the story of a knight on the trail of the grail when suddenly a lute start playing.
You finally confront the man who killed your father and what do you hear? You guessed it, a fucking lute.
You lost you companion, your love just died and you're lost in the dark woods but still resolved to go on on your quest... fucking lute.
>>46434048
Neil Gaiman's 1602.
>>46436660
And obviously every fucking tavern has the freshest exploits of the heroes sung to them
>>46434048
would superman be a palladin
DC did this for like 30 issues or some shit.
>>46437115
I looked it up it was 23 issues
>>46437073
No but Shazam would would be
>>46434048
What style of superheroes are we talking about?
Comicbook supers?
MCU/Defenders Series supers?
Batman Animated Series/Arkham Games/Arrowverse supers?
Nolanverse Not-Actually-Superheroes supers?
Zack "Superman fans are retards" Snyder supers?
>>46437115
God that series was great
for Marvel you might want to check pic related or for more DC check out Warlord an old 70's sword and sorcery comic
For more role playing related stuff Warriors and Warlocks for Mutants&Masterminds 2nd Edition
>>46437347
>Black Knight
Can you buy it online as pdf?
>>46437347
> Not the Blackest Knight
>>46434048
Saints.
>>46436749
>>46436749
>>46439699
These make HeMan out to look a lot less stupid than the cartoon.
>>46437495
Yup
>>46436654
No Heracles = Hercules
>>46442216
The point was that in the original Avengers team, Hulk was a member for like 6 issues then fucked off
Post-2E D&D
>>46436527
Unless you're a martial, then you even get beat by domestic animals
Usually a short, but fun story
>>46446089
Did Cap just get *poofed* by the Holy Grail?
I need to read this now.
>>46446269
But that's the thing, you only need that page. Your brain can fill it all in from those 6 panels.
>>46446089
What's that?
Also, Marvel apparently released a mini of fantasy superheroes, called Avataars: Covenant of the Shield. No idea if it was good or not, I failed to find it anywhere
>>46434048
>No one says lord of the rings
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
>>46446367
It's pretty low-key, compared to most high fantasy and supers stuff. At least in 3rd Age
>>46442216
Cool story bro.
>>46437073
Nah, just a really, really high level fighter. Lawful Good, of course, but a fighter.
Though, would coming from another planet and then being raised on farm fulfill the terms of Barbarian?
>>46434735
So a big crossover event.
>>46437073
Wondie would count more as a paladin than Supes.
>>46437184
I'd put Captain Marvel more as a Gygax-style cleric, I think.
>>46446490
Huh. Pretty much, yeah
>>46446490
HA. Actually, yes.
Which makes the Aenied the post-crisis reboot event.
>>46434735
so, a company wide crossover?
>>46446412
>It's pretty low-key
I mean, when people who adapt it get the super ability to conjure non-canon mary sues with bullshit romances out of thin air it's pretty high-key
>>46448314
They had to fill an extra movie's length of time with something. Not that anything worth watching is happening in the third one...
>>46434048
>Superheroes + medieval fantasy = ?
Exalted. (fantas is more ancient china than yurop medieval, but principle holds)
Also a whole lot of mythologies in general. They just lack squeaky clean morals of comic code.
>>46434048
Roland the furious.
Seriously, he gets upset over a woman and ends up kicking a cow to the moon.
>>46434048
as opposed to ..normal heroes?
I mean most fantasy heroes already have "Superpowers" right?
is putting them in stupid outfits making them super?
>>46434048
Wild Talents released a free PDF for super heroes in an ancient Greek setting
MYYYYSTIC KNIGHTS HAVE COME TO SAVE OUUR LIIIVES
>>46451642
This show didn't age well at all. Or maybe it was awful to begin with
>>46451593
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQJJjcrwXQE
>>46434048
Hercules + millenia = superheroes?
Many mythologies have crazy powerful and queer-clothed weirdoes.
Level 20+ D&D basically is superheroes in fantasy setting and level 30+ is Greek mythology in fantasy setting
>>46434048
You mean the 17th-18th century?
>>46452344
But those weren't superheroes. You don't become superhero by wearing silly or flashy clothing. You need super powers too or just to be really bad ass guy and most guys with flashy clothes back then were pretty much pampered nobles.
I guess one could argue that Landsknecht qualify as superheroes.
>>46434138
>As in, outrageous costumes, alter egos and fancy names, the whole thing?
Yes. Exactly that. Some with innate and very specific "super powers" that cannot be easily replicated with magic. Just straight up comic book style superheroes in a high fantasy setting, no more no less.
>>46452449
>Some with innate and very specific "super powers" that cannot be easily replicated with magic.
One thing about it: it might be a good idea to ban D&D-esque wizards because their magic lacks a unifying theme. They're just way too fucking broad and it might do good to replace them with stuff like elementalists, and illusionists and summoners and so on.
>>46434048
The Catholic Church.
>>46452506
Well, D&D has sorcerers whose powers are innate. They're also bit limited compared to wizards, but still pretty broad.
>>46434048
Many fine anime series produced over the years, most notably:
>Slayers
>Fairy Tail
>Seven Deadly Sins
>>46452550
Yeah see like a sorcerer that is limited to one school or otherwise a specific theme.
>>46434454
Thats because he was too overpowered, he made everyone else pointless.
>>46440199
She-Ra is still a way better hero though.
Bitch doesn't even need her superpowers to get shit done, she's a soldier either way. But Prince Adam can't do anything on his own.
Every single setting.
>>46453228
>Pirate Spiderman
I never knew I needed this in my life
>>46446269
>>46446312
So it's the Marvel/Nasuverse crossover?
>>46453345
Don't bring up the terrible terrible nasuverse
>>46453345
>anything myth related is nasuverse
>>46437347
>For more role playing related stuff Warriors and Warlocks for Mutants&Masterminds 2nd Edition
IIRC it also had a sidebar listing some comics with "superheroes in medieval" theme.
>>46434048
Greek mythology.
>>46446467
Herc is great.
>>46457650
>He thinks Greek mythology is medieval
>>46436705
I loved that comic, especially Fury. The ruff suits him.
>>46451642
Can you tell which character got dragged into this by her bf?
>>46451642
Knight Kings of Lightninghold?
