I suppose I should make some kind of pitch like Sehk did, describing the world/general conflict in the upcoming Superheroes game, but I'm not entirely certain what I can say that doesn't already come to mind when you think of superheroes.

Since we'll have the advent of the internet on our side, we can use an actual city as our setting, and I'm rather partial to New York City, what with the numerous landmarks, areas that are familiar to pretty much anyone that has or hasn't been there, and all that nonsense. If folks make a good argument, we can choose another city, but I think NYC should work out for us.

There will be supervillains out there, doing what they can to disrupt the peace, and the role of the superheroes will be largely up to the players. How you obtain your powers is up to you, the world of comics has given us a variety of reasons from science gone wrong, to latent mutant powers, to space aliens living among us, so feel free to be creative with that. At the start, each superhero will be mostly or entirely unaware of the others, and whether you come together as a group or forge out on your own will remain your choice. None of the players will be known by the public at large at the start of the game, but how the players act will definitely affect how the public (and, namely, the police force) reacts to them, they could become honored and revered heroes of the people, or hunted vigilantes, if they do enough collateral damage while defeating the bad guys or other such things.

Early on, there won't be any scarily powerful supervillains running amok, the players will mostly be fighting henchmen working for the supervillains, as well as... less competant villains. If one of the previous almost-players ends up playing the same character he had planned initially, you'll probably have a nice Hall of Justice style hangout to monitor crime from. If not... Well, you'll just have to come up with something.

One thing that we may end up changing is to switch from the GURPS Supers system to the Mutants and Masterminds d20 system, as has been mentioned by a few people now. If anyone has any strong attachment to the GURPS system, let me know, otherwise, I think Mutants and Masterminds would work out better for everyone involved.

I'd be perfectly fine with that, and that is how my games usually go, rules can be fudged or ignored for the sake of the characters/storytelling. ...Or, at least, I can fudge the rules, and the players can on a case to case basis.

Kudos on your generous offer, Aeonic, that's really helping to open this up to folks who wouldn't play normally. I have the Mutants and Masterminds Hero's Handbook now myself, so if you need "help" on where to "find" it, just hop into the chatroom and ask around.

And yes, even you folks who are getting Aeonic's handy dandy character sheet will need the book, if only for later purposes.