Taking a cue from the Cornelius Chronicles, what if each game involved the destruction of the universe? Your super-powered heroes shatter the universe and a new, radically different one rises from the ashes. Each time it comes back, so do the PCs, only they are changed based on how the last universe ended -- rather like the Invisible Clergy of Unknown Armies, but with a Nobilis power level and no Lord Entropy to crack down on them.
Thus you could have rampaging, action-filled battles which always climax in the destruction of the world. And next session, everyone is just a little bit tweaked beause of it. So they fight not only to advance their particular cause or Estate or whatever, but also to maintain their sense of self (or to deliberately change it).
Alternate History Game
Taking a cue from the Cornelius Chronicles, what if each game involved the destruction of the universe? Your super-powered heroes shatter the universe and a new, radically different one rises from the ashes. Each time it comes back, so do the PCs, only they are changed based on how the last universe ended -- rather like the Invisible Clergy of Unknown Armies, but with a Nobilis power level and no Lord Entropy to crack down on them.
Thus you could have rampaging, action-filled battles which always climax in the destruction of the world. And next session, everyone is just a little bit tweaked beause of it. So they fight not only to advance their particular cause or Estate or whatever, but also to maintain their sense of self (or to deliberately change it).
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