09-05-2020, 06:24 PM | #11 |
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The average high school would only have seven superhuman students though, which would make it uneconomical for public or private schools to have specialized classes, facilities, and faculty for their super students. Being talented is not a protected category, magnet schools based off intelligence or particular skill sets are constitutional, so I imagine that supers would fit under the same purview.
As for the danger associated with having supers mixed with mundanes, imagine an adolescent with the following ability: Mind Control (Conditioning, +50%; Reliable, +10, +50%; Super, -10%) [95]. They could rewrite the minds of everyone within their school with only a few days of effort and treat them as their personal toys, and that type of individual could occur within the bottom 80% of supers. |
09-05-2020, 07:00 PM | #12 | |
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09-05-2020, 07:01 PM | #13 | |
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So for what I remember to be a commonly sized instittion you have fewer supers than football players but more supers than cheerleaders. Supers would outnumber the newspaper and yearbook staffs (though not perhaps if combined). Much more than the chess club. Seems like quite a reasonable clique to me. :)
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09-05-2020, 07:33 PM | #14 |
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The average high school in the USA possesses 600-700 students. The majority of the best high schools in the USA have less than 700 students and some of them have as few as 200 students, though the best does have an enrollment of 1800 students.
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*In cases where there is a special school for gifted and talented students, it's not uncommon - certainly this was the case in my area (and the reason I didn't participate in such programs until middle school, as I didn't want to leave my own school and friends) - to have a single school that handles such programs, in addition to having "normal" students/classes/etc. Quote:
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09-06-2020, 12:00 PM | #16 |
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I think that it would be the parents of mundane parents who would demand that supers have their own schools, to prevent their children from suffering from competitive disadvantages. In addition, a number of extracurricular activities in mundane schools would like be forbidden to supers due to their perceived unfair advantage. For example, a super with Enhanced Move 2 (Ground) [40] would have an insurmountable advantage in long-distance running, as they could reach speeds of 40 mph even if they were otherwise average in their capabilities.
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09-06-2020, 12:07 PM | #17 | |
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If you think they would do this and that it get them what they wanted you've already settled what the role is of Supers in your new setting and that role is persecuted minority. It would go farther. Adult supers wouldn't be allowed to "compete" for "normal" jobs. You probably end up with Super-Apartheid.
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09-06-2020, 12:21 PM | #18 |
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The supers as stand in for persecuted minorities in the real world always fell flat to me. Because those with supernatural powers are literally very different to all other people by definition.
It's quite silly, IMO, to start yelling about pitchfork wielding mobs when you have children with equivalent destructive power to those carrying guns.
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09-06-2020, 01:35 PM | #19 | |
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In such a setting, national governments would likely run such schools, as they would want to make sure that any antisocial tendencies are addressed early. In the USA, this would likely mean that a significant number of supers would likely end up in the federal bureaucracy and/or military, while the majority of the remainder would end up in corporate jobs. A licensed hero system may evolve to keep the supers that wanted to be 'do-gooders' or just wanted normal careers properly registered, with the US government providing wages, benefits, liability protection, etc. as incentives for registration (unregistered supers who engaged in vigilante action would not have the benefits). In such a registration system, supers could be divided into student, government, corporate, and independent. Independent supers would include classical superheroes as well as people who have superpowers but pursue normal careers (for example, a professional baker who happened to have the ability to create spatial portals). Registration would be especially important to independents, hero or normal, because it would offer liability protection (though they may find themselves called upon during emergencies). Unregistered supers would probably be considered to be automatically suspicious by the general public. |
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09-06-2020, 02:20 PM | #20 |
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Would that assume there is a reliable and widespread enough way to detect supers?
And what about knowing what they can do? |
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