Idea du corporate

Any Superhero

Someone mentioned doing a list of random encounters for superheroes. This is one step up.

I wonder if there'd be any interest in a book (say, 25) sets of one- or two-page adventures?

While each adventure would have all of the essentials (setting, antagonist, etc) some of the adventures would share locations or antagonists, so that any one adventure only needs to specify a place or a character. Some of the locations would be so generic that you wouldn't provide a map, too.

There'd have to be an assumed universe or sub-universe. Let's say something on the level of a DC or Marvel universe. For sub-universes, you could do different books, but essentially you're looking at:

• Street-level or neighbourhood: Your Daredevil or X-Men young heroes kind of thing.
• Basic city level: your Spider-Man or Batman level things.
• World protectors: your Avengers or Justice League.
• Cosmic: your space stuff, typically your Guardians of the Galaxy or Legion of Super Heroes.

Don't take those levels terribly seriously: in the comics, you can find world-beaters defending a neighbourhood and your city guys stumbling on a threat to the cosmos.

Other lines of comics are really their own little sub-genre, too: I think the Claremont X-Men were really in their own little world. Solo (one player character) is different than team.

There'd be some planning to make sure that various bad guys or locations get re-used. As a first iteration, where you don't know if the product will sell, you probably want to do eight of the first three sub-genres. So you do eight little adventures involving the neighbourhood or the small town (because it might be nice to have a spin-off setting that's a little different, and that says “small town” to me).

It occurs to me that these are one step up from the adventure seeds that happen in a number of setting books. It's more than a seed but less than a full adventure.