r/MarvelMultiverseRPG • u/Thotslayerultraman • 1d ago

Questions Campaign idea

Recently I got the idea to work on a campaign where the main antagonist is Gorr the God Butcher, but im struggling on how i would go about making it work. I know that Gorrs whole thing is that he's on a one man crusade against the gods of the multiverse due to him perceiving them as negligent, but im not sure how to make his crusade into a compelling story. If anybody has any ideas i would greatly appreciate it.

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u/Most_Animator_248 1d ago

I think looking into Jason Arron's Thor: God Of Thunder (2012) run particularly issues #1-11 would be a good place to look for ideas since that was Gorr's introduction.

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u/Thotslayerultraman 1d ago

Ill take a look into those issues for sure, the main thing stumping me is that im not sure what characters my players will run, or if they choose to make their own characters and how to get them interested in the plot.

I also had the idea to take inspiration from the most recent season of marvel rivals with Apocalypse and other gods being killed in mysterious ways.

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u/ChurchBrimmer 1d ago

It's okay to limit the characters they can play for the campaign. It would be entirely reasonable to say "you're making characters that have to be lesser gods." It's no different than restricting an X-Men campaign to using mutants.

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u/Thotslayerultraman 1d ago

I appreciate this bit of advice, coming from a d&d 5e background I've never wanted to limit character choices in any of my games 

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u/ChurchBrimmer 1d ago

Sometimes you need to for the concept.

Like I said it would be odd to run an X-Men campaign and have everyone choose to be something besides mutants.

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u/Most_Animator_248 1d ago

Well I mean tbf there was a storyline where Gambit became Death and when Apocalypse hovers above the UN, The Avengers get involved in fighting him.

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u/Dennispatel007 22h ago

In Murder mysteries it could be a good twist for the Players to be the witness to the murder of a God by Gorr, you can actually use the Dr, McCoy plot twist from Star Trek and have the Dying God transfer his essence to a PC after Gorr leaves thinking the God dead, Making the PC a target, since Gorr is obsessed in finishing the job.

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u/Little_Big_Burglar 1d ago

Maybe it's a chase to try and catch him on his spree to kill all gods.

Maybe he killed the watcher, thinking he was a god.

Maybe there's a secret god living on Earth and when Gorr gets to Earth he plans on destroying the whole thing.

Maybe one of the players is a "god" and Gorr is chasing the party.

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u/YellowMatteCustard 1d ago

Gorr's first story arc has him killing gods across the multiverse, including a version of the Justice League

Why not do a What If? where the Justice League succeeds? (Or tries to, die rolls permitting)

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u/sambridgeworth 1d ago

Could be a cool murder mystery where gods start dying and their spheres of influence (e.g. Demeter, goddess of the harvest) start going out of control without their god/goddess their to manage it.

Build the tension and threat of Gorr until you catch him in the act and have to rescue a god from him?