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Post by steamteck on Aug 29, 2018 3:31:50 GMT
I started this campaign back in college ( I'm 60 new.) It started as a bronze age era campaign on an alternate Earth and time passed until it turned into Steampunk one for about 10 years. Then about 12 real years ago. Basically the martians showed up and were stopped by a coalition of mad scientists. wizards and Superhumans living hidden in society coming out. The foremost was the Thunderchild( sort of if Doc Savage had 1st appearance Superman's powers) They defeated the aliens and copied their tech and the age of heroes began. Folks of my generation played in this campaign for about 8 years then my wife died and I figured it was done.
But it was not. My oldest daughter and her two friends had no GM so wanted to try me out. They had all heard me being overly dramatic while running their own games in the basement. So I collected my best friend and son to game again and we embarked on a campaign for two generations. They wanted significant time to have passed since the invasion so I skipped ahead about 150 years and we began. That was four years ago.
We usually meet twice a week short session Thursday night and long Saturday, although real life often interferes. I'll post some play summaries soon and see if anyone is interested
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Post by steamteck on Aug 29, 2018 3:39:52 GMT
thunderchild 3.bmp (351.61 KB) Thunderchild real name Kent St. John. First Hero father of them all. A little grayer and slower but still force to be reckoned with. founder of the Protectors the most prestigious superteam on Earth. Buried several wives and children. Two living children now and one grandson. The players have set up the rival team, The fighting flock ( leader the marvelous Magpie) and recruited Kent's son Rolling Thunder into their ranks.
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Post by steamteck on Aug 29, 2018 3:43:47 GMT
Each player has multiple characters and we decide pretty much on the fly who everyone wants to be tonight.
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Post by steamteck on Aug 29, 2018 12:01:12 GMT
This adventure happened about a month ago before my son went back to Va tech. It was a short session over about four hours on a Thursday night. It had to be a one nighter since he was leaving. My son player H. G. Tesla
The players
Dr. H. G. Tesla Steampunk genius. A man out of time whose time machine catapulted him 200 years into the future but can't go back in time.
Dr. Clarity Telepathic emotion controlling martial artist. This lady is the therapist to the superhero community and super villains in prison. I love this character. She has telepathic hearing so I ask everyone all the time what they are thinking
Vanguard Think Captain America with steel gauntlets instead of a shield. War hero who was captured by aliens and put in suspended animation foe 30 years
The turbulent Twister super strong, super fast and super egotistical former wrestler. Son of one of my late wife's player characters
fireduke Flame shooting smooth operator. Also taught Muay Thai by his fiancee who has been known to kick horse demons to death.
The players and a large group gather at the Wellington grand hotel for a party hosted by H. G. Tesla. Tesla announces his engagement to Dr. Clarity's sister Luna. Luna has been smitten with Tesla since she read his mind when they first met. "What I would do with her. I would hold the door for her. I would pull out her chair. I would throw down my coat in the mud for her to walk over." But wait. Tela's great great granddaughter, the fame Dr. Nan is not at the reception and her emergency beacon given to her by the Thunderchild has gone off.
Our heroes go to investigate, recruiting the Thunderchild and Vanguard's scary shadow powered wife Sepulcher. Tesla is slightly miffed the women are endangering themselves coming along but Thunderchild vouches for them The signal is coming from the wilderness mountains about 100 miles away so they take Tesla's zeppelin, the Limitless to the area.
When they arrive at the area, missile launchers pop out of the mountainside but the Limitless has electrical anti missile defenses. they then proceed down to the Forrest below. leaving the Limitless in the hands of Tesla's pilot Claudius Hindenburg.
Down in the forest, they find the sole survivor of a United nations Intelligence team ( UNIT) strike force. It seems the War machine has lured them here to test its new gear for its troops. The War Machine is an Ares cult in my game and since Ares is real and active, they are very devoted.
Dr. Clarity's telepathy prevents an ambush from scout soldiers with chameleon suits. The team fights them off but Clarity gets a laser burn. Tesla is mad at Thunderchild for putting her in danger but they continue to follow the beacon. After several encounters with soldiers the players are impressed by the players come upon a giant door That seem would even defy the Thunderchild's great strength. Tesla and Duke simultaneously hacked the two key pads and they are in.
inside they face, Captain Victor Gruber and his men in Halo style Spartan armor ( yep, I went there). They also find everything has been recorded. Dramatic conflict where our heroes are victorious. The Twister rushes ahead . Smashes down a steel door to find a nerdy women trapped inside and yells "out of the way girl, I'm here for Nan". The response is, of course "I am Nan"
The villain reveals it was all a test and they were recorded for data on their abilites. They call UNIT to clean up and after they show, head back for some down time.
Not sure how much detail is wanted. Do you want more or less. If this flies, I'll remember more quips and such if I do this sooner after the fact.
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Post by steamteck on Sept 10, 2018 2:08:27 GMT
Quick recap of tonight's adventure. Several decades ago game time and about 6ish real time. The world's strongest hero Bedrock ( who is a player) was tricked by an illusionist to think an up and coming senator was actually a particular super villain brick and he tackled him. The tackle by an 800 Kg stone man crippled him for life. He was not to be stopped though. spending his fortune and with the aid of his own genius, he constructed a suit half Darth Vader, half Iron man. He became Steel Destiny. He still believed he could unite all nations but Bedrock and shown him diplomacy was useless against raw naked force so that is what he would use to fulfill his destiny.
After countless battles and miraculous escapes, tonight they managed to track to his last two bases in Majapour (basically Bollywood superhero India with a splash of Lord of LIght) and finally defeat him. He didn't die but his organization was smashed. Bedrock defeated him in a climatic single combat similar to The Thing's classic defeat of Dr. Doom
The Players
Bedrock - When mining genius Steven Stone had a horrible accident with his experimental submolecular tunneling device, He became the man of Superhardened stone Bedrock. Armed with his massive strength and durability, his trusty Tunnel gun and the fighting skills taught to him by one Pallas Athena's apprentices. he fights crime when folks can pry him away from his experiments
Revenant A man cursed to live between life and death. he can never die but his emotions and feeling are agonizingly muted. he relys on his thousand years of fighting skills plus his abilities to become ghostlike invisible and intangible. He looks to his best friends the Thunderchild and the stunning white tigress ( retired PC ) for his moral compass
The marvelous Magpie. niece of the famous Laryn Caligari, most intelligent human in the world and granddaughter of the villianess The Black empress. Magpie is the leader and founder of the only team competitive with the legendary Protectors The Fighting Flock. A super quick martial artist with phasing powers she is very hard to contain or pin down.
Sotta Eld, Demon hunter from another dimension trapped in ours. Sotta, through another's magical incompetence has his arm switched with a demon. He using its demonic energies to channel powers which can destroy demons, turning their own power against the.
There were lots of NPCs a Whole Majapouran team joined them. Revenant recruited Thunderchild and White Tigeress. They broke up into teams( and because they don't hate me, the PCs were in one group.) Another big battle With deadly robots low level supersoldiers and dacoit assassins with the Thunderchild taking on Ankylosaur ( yep, they saw Ankylosaur and said "Kent get him") while Bedrock had the climatic battle with Steel destiny.
Our heroes also had time to visit a charity clinic and endorse and give money to it. Eat at the best restaurant in the whole country where the food and drink are blessed by priests of the god of sensual pleasure, visit with Magpie's nieces and her royal cousin and do a Bollywood street dance number with grateful cops and civilians.
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Post by steamteck on Sept 16, 2018 5:10:05 GMT
Well, I know at least one person reads these so I'll continue. Only three players made it tonight.
Our Players
Ceridwen Deleon ( little lion) latest in a long line of vampire hunters, armed with the secret vampire destroying spells of her family, Ceri really only wants to teach magic history at the Delos Lovelace college of Metaphysics
Angron Thakyr the cursed. Ancient viking warrior cursed by the Norse gods with immortality. They died. He can't. In his viking style power armor and armed with his re configuring plasma gun and his laser longaxe, he fights for honor, justice and because its fun.
Eitri yes that Eitri, who made Thor's hammer. Coming to Earth after his dying star turned evil. He found his brother Brokr making tools for super villains. So he determined he needs to show the power of Dwarven craftsmanship for good and heroes as a living advertisement for his product. Armed with a hammer rivaling Mjolnir and his Steampunk/magical power armor, he fights evil.
Ceri found several of her students head been kidnapped but one had escaped. Hooking up with the other players and fellow teacher Sapphire Reign ( spirit magic teacher with her trusty ghost knight, Sir Geoffrey). They tracked them to the woods north of town. Where two factions of the notorious scarlet circle ( world league of evil sorcerers basically) were fighting over them. After our heroes dealt with them and rescued the students. They found out the followers of Korgash the insatiable wanted to trade them for Ceri's best friend whom she had contained but couldn't unpossess. He had in him Sardo Nuspah a very powerful demon
Korgash was originally a PC. He was a major demon who was basically possessed by essentially Ghandi and had to do good. Eventually he was killed and sent to hell and retired to be a bad guy when he was resummoned back to The world by his followers. He learned from Ghandi to treat his people well so he started his enormously successful recruiting campaign " Korgash Cares"
Our group made a pilgrimage to the hidden island of Quilistira goddess of nature ( Ex PC form my "gods themselves" campaign back in college) and gained help and a ritual to free him that might kill the people involved. They found a spot and Ceri called her friend in the Scarlet circle ( yes, Ceri is a good person, She just tries to find the good in everybody) Anyway, she asked the Red Queen to try and get the other faction to lay off. The queen agree but said " these heroes are causing huge problems for me. Could you say you need their help to give my folks a little rest. Ceri agree
So now with the additional help of Thunderchild ( yep again) Gloriana Demeter ( pretty much Wonder woman with earth control powers) and the retired goddessses Athena and Artemis. They fought off the wizard and demon hordes until the spells could be complete. Everyone has a ball fighting and even with Ceri I managed to make casting the spell fun and suspenseful for the player. Once ousted and "killed" Numspah formed a gigantic fireball which arced up into the air and our heroes managed to get free with Angron and then Eitri doing a combo that sunned Korgash so he was dragged down to hell also.
Afterwards some of them ( not the foursome who were called in to help) partied at Sapphire Reign's( the spirit magic teacher) house. Ceri went home early. Eitri overdrank and passed out, and Androm slept with Sapphire ( while her ghost knight watched)
There was snappy repartee but don't really remember it now. If I remember something cool, I'll post. Its 1 am now I wanted to post while it was fresh in my mind
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Post by CRTaylor on Sept 17, 2018 4:30:01 GMT
I long have wondered what it would be like to have a long time enduring game. I would love to run years and years like that, but I never had a player group that wanted a long term campaign, just short bursts then something different.
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Post by steamteck on Sept 19, 2018 22:49:54 GMT
I long have wondered what it would be like to have a long time enduring game. I would love to run years and years like that, but I never had a player group that wanted a long term campaign, just short bursts then something different. Its really very very cool. I've had players retire their characters then play those characters kids. I've also had Players whose characters ended up being the kids of long running NPCs. |
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Post by steamteck on Feb 2, 2019 16:51:36 GMT
quick recap last episode. Dionysius ha a child by a basically Aztec blood cult leader, The Bloodmother who wanted to keep the child. he went to his daughter Althea ( rock star and superheroine and my daughter PC) to gsther a team. She drummed up these PCs
Angron Thakyr the cursed. Ancient viking warrior cursed by the Norse gods with immortality. They died. He can't. In his viking style power armor and armed with his re configuring plasma gun and his laser longaxe, he fights for honor, justice and because its fun.
Eitri yes that Eitri, who made Thor's hammer. Coming to Earth after his dying star turned evil. He found his brother Brokr making tools for super villains. So he determined he needs to show the power of Dwarven craftsmanship for good and heroes as a living advertisement for his product. Armed with a hammer rivaling Mjolnir and his Steampunk/magical power armor, he fights evil.
Fi Atlantian refugee decent fighter water mage. She failed her people and fled in terror from shark men and now hopes to redeem herself by heroing
Npcs recruited
Thunderbird Low level flying brick Amerind woman with lightning powers. Got her powers when the new goddess Storm Queen who way overdid it curing her of a what would have been eventually fatal birth defect
Rolling Thunder the Thunderchild's son by a mermaid. he has his fathers leap tall buildings in a single bound nothing less than a bursting shell can penetrate his skin abilities coupled with water breathing and fast swimming. despite being a great hero, he has a bit of an inferiority because of who his father is.
My gaming group is arriving, I'll tell the tale later
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Post by steamteck on Feb 3, 2019 20:49:21 GMT
Our heroes travel to the True World ( my equivalent of the classic South American/Caribbean) and take up the trail. After some investigation they find the cult has a hidden temple near the jungle village of Popul Vul.
At Popul Vul, They befriend the villagers by Fi using her healing/cleansing powers to cure some locals. However the jealous local Witchdoctor rats them out to the Bloodcult.
The cult attacks them with warriors, wizards and Werejaguars. Dionysus didn't mention that an obsidian dagger is the only thing that can kill them so Artemis divine weapons are the only thing that can land the killing blow. Still our heroes manage to incapacitate them and are victorious
Artemis tracks those who flee back to ancient ruins with a ruined pyamid. Where the Bloodmother tries to convince them they are the bad guys and intimate them with her four Camazotz Bat Demons. This time no jade daggers in the party.
Big battle Super strength, magic hammers , lightning etc win the day. The Bloodmother runs her spear through Althea who grabs it and holds her in place while Fi does a water flight move by with her trident on the Blood mother. Althea then turns around and drives the spear which has gone through her body into the witch by slamming her back into the Bloodmother's front.
Althea survives dues to Fi's healing and her Olympian durability and adopts the baby. Return home to a big party and her awaiting adopted witch children who it turns out sensing their mom's injury and helped out from afar.
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Post by steamteck on Nov 28, 2019 2:59:25 GMT
Still playing but I have two groups now. I'll try to write up some more but it works best when they're fresh.
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Post by steamteck on Nov 28, 2019 3:20:01 GMT
All the greatest vampire hunters are summoned to Chin ( basically pulp era/ martial arts movie China) along with some of the heroes who have helped them in the past. The 30000 year old vampire queen Yath-li, who has the blood of Nyarlathotep himself has returned after a thousand years and taken over the south. She is held back by the prayers of the monks of Wudan mountain. The truth is my oldest daughter's PC the sapphire enchantress, who is actually descended from the great old one Ithaqua, created the problem. She awakened her thought she could hold her captive and get knowledge from her. She escaped. She is to a normal vampire as Thor is to an average Viking warrior Eventually they ally temporarily with the order of the Black Hand , sort of Fu Manchu meets wuxia meets high magic sort of organization. The goddess of the black hand gives the Enchantress the power to keep her down if they defeat her. After quite a few exciting encounters with vampire ninjas etc and Cthulhu cycle creatures. A large coalition of heroes confronts her in her huge cave lair. The Enchantress still considers her her 2nd best friend though even though its obvious Yath-Li is not her friend. She knocks Yath-Li out of the way of a particularly powerful combo and the vampire Queen ends up in position to drop two of the stronger heroes. Eventually they defeat her but The Enchantress teleports away rather than exercise the Goddess power The group Brainstorms and figures a way to keep her contained hopefully until the city of immortals is in conjunction and can be reached in seven years so they can contain her. The Enchantress now is pretty much persona non grata now. My daughter understood this and its the tale of her fall beginning This was a four night adventure and I skipped a lot but this was the gist. Yath-Li image by Cay West Attachments:
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Post by steamteck on Nov 28, 2019 3:33:42 GMT
Role call of players Angron Thakyr the cursed. Ancient viking warrior cursed by the Norse gods with immortality. They died. He can't. In his viking style power armor and armed with his re configuring plasma gun and his laser longaxe, he fights for honor, justice and because its fun. Sapphire Enchantress, descendant of the great old one Ithaqua and perhaps the greatest living expert on The creatures of the cthulhu cycled deities. She has vast magical powers granted by her studies but has delved a little too deeply to be completely sane of good anymore Photon square jawed hero who controls and can become light. Skuld Egyptian unliving mummy allied with Angron who has given him a suit of powered armor powered by his undead "lifeforce" Dundie Son of Sobek the crocodile god whom he thinks is an asshole and so has gone travelling. He loves western boxing an is expert with it. He looks like a seven foot tall scaly man with a tail and crocodile head. he's very strong and tough and magic resistant but not exactly a genius Attachments:
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Post by steamteck on Mar 23, 2021 16:40:32 GMT
Still playing. If there's any interest I can post a few adventures again but kind of seems a wasteland here.
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