Monday Mashup 5: The Fantastic Four

I was tempted to write for last week's Monday Mashup when the topic was Neuromancer, but never got around to it. However, I can't resiste this week's theme: Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's Fantastic Four.

For those of you who have not seen this, the Monday Mashup's object is to take a given them and mix it with a given roleplaying game or setting.

Ginger has already done my first thought, a Fantastic Four/fantasy crossover. I could give my version, but how fun would that be?

Instead, I give you the Jackie Chan Adventures game starring the Fantastic Five. This could be run using Hero 5th edition, GURPS, Masterbook or several other systems.

Origin: Reed Richards was and is an archeologist, a friend and sometimes co-worker of Jackie. With his amazing luck at discovering rare finds on digs, Jackie would jokingly call him "Mr. Fantastic." While Reed was working at a site in China, his girlfiend Sue and her little brother Johnny (an annoying boy about 10 years old) came to visit him on-site and spend some vacation time visiting China. While they were on the site, they found a secret chamber deep in the ground. With the help of two of his assistants, another Archologist named Jennifer Walters and a laborer named Ben, Reed was able to open the chamber and the group went inside wear they discovered 5 ancient vases. The ground trembled and the energies burst forth from the vases changing the lives of Reed and his friends forever.

Style: The game would be a hong kong-style action series with each of the four gaining abilities based on the Chinese zodiac: water, fire, earth, metal and wood. They would be harrassed by shadow-ninjas, demons and, of course, an ex-Romani, power-hungry overlord named Victor who all want the power of the elements.

One more thing.....

Characters: I'm not sure what powers I'd give Reed and Sue, but little Johnny would have pyromantic abilities and Ben would be really strong. As for the fifth fantastic person (to round out the Chinese elements), Jenny would probably be the one for the power of wood as I'm certain she'd look good in green.