HERO System | Altruistic Altered Avenging Anthropomorphs! (Champions 6e PbP)

About the adventure

Crime is going up double digits every year. Vigilante gangs patrol the streets and square off against the drug dealers and the muggers. The metropolis is in chaos. But the real battles lie below... In the sewers... You are a band of misfit mutated animals coming to grips in a world overpopulated by a single bipedal species that appears to be destined to wipe itself out. The eldest among you know that the humans created you but for what purpose you do not know... But you are claiming your own purpose now... But in order to find answers as to why you were created, you'll first need to save the humans from themselves... In 1984, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird introduced us to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It was originally an Iron Age b&w comic with more grimdark grittiness than comedy. This campaign is an homage to those original ideals. This is an asynchronous Play-by-Post Campaign. Players will utilize Discord channels for both in-character and out-of-character responses and will use Roll20 for tracking meta-game elements such as maintaining the character sheet and rolling dice and such.

Additional Details

How to prepare

You will need logins for Discord (for the bulk of communications for play) and Roll20 (for character sheet usage and tracking rolls). During the Session Zero time period which will last until we obtain at least three players, fees will be set to $0. That time will be utilized for character creation.

What I provide

a bag of holdings worth of tools from many resources...

Gameplay details

Session Zero time is for character creation and reviewing campaign themes and can be separate Voice meetings with each Player in Discord as needed or handled completely through text. Players will be expected to respond in a timely but reasonable manner. Combat and social encounters will obviously be micromanaged by the GM to some extent if a player cannot respond in a timely manner with sufficient notice. Players will be charged weekly but no charge will accrue if a Player requires an extended absence and is able to provide fair reasonable notice (based on the circumstances of course --- emergencies happen). Roll20 will not be used for tactical encounters or such (although will be used for some visual aids but the majority of those will be through Discord). Think of Discord as being your "in-character" narrative responses and Roll20 as being your character sheet and dice rolls. In Roll20, you roll the dice for your attack ("roll 3d6") but in Discord you "fire your sub-machine gun at the ganger's torso after he lunged at you".

Content warnings

(none)

Safety tools used

Aftercare
Breaks
Debriefing
Open Door
Session 0

How will character creation work

No prior knowledge of the system is necessary. Character creation will be done during Session zero. Character creation will be transferred afterward to Roll20. Experienced and beginning gamers will quickly intuit the rules if they are not already familiar with them.

Players can expect

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