Times of Heroism, in an age of Despair
June 28th, 1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand has been shot for his attempt to reveal to the world. Super Humans are real and they live among us.
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Weekly / Friday - 6:30 PM UTC
Session Duration / 3–4 hours
0 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
If your a history buff the hook might have you asking afew questions. and the awnser is yes! this will be an Alt history campaign following the events of WW1 all the way up too modern day with the central twist being that super humans have lived amongst humanity sense the dawn of time. The gods we read about were all in fact super humans living among ancient humans. as time passed the most powerful among them went into hiding concealing them selfs from the world. Thoughs with some power didnt have too try as hard to hide there powers and as such blended in with society much more easily. Select groups knew the truth mostly government and secret organizations all working quietly to conceal the truth. But a time came when the Archduke could no longer keep quiet knowing all too well the truth and the good these people could offer the world if they were brought into a time that was more welcoming. How ever his hopes would be dashed and the first Mutant World War would kick off with super powered individuals being drafted along side regular humans all around the world. Over the course of the campaign we will be following the moment to moment beats of a Special Operations Group known as "The Wolf Brigade" like many other countries and groups testing out how too implement Super powered individuals into there armies, the Wolf Brigade will feature a quirky Band of capes and humans. so players should expect a down too earth band of brothers type experience not every week will feature a battle some times its about the quiet moments and the lack of carnage that makes a war insufferable. and other weeks it will be nonstop combat. (such is the nature of the big one). i would recommend this campaign to people who like history and alt history, too people who are a fan of superheroes and superhero parody, and too people who want to try something a little of the beaten path.
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Rule of Cool (RoC)
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Meet the Game Master
Less than a year on StartPlaying
13 games hosted
Highly rated for: Teacher, Storytelling, Creativity
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Response rate: 100%
About me
Howdy I go by Rabbit (Old highschool nickname that stuck), But you can also call me Ian. I have been playing roleplaying games sense high school and the vast majority of that as a GM. I use to be big into the heros journey and the telling of the epics. but over time I have come to prefer Darker stories one where heroes are Heroic cause they are willing to suffer through the nightmare and come through it worse for ware. The ending often being "Was it worth it?" I run alot of warhammer 40k RPGs mainly the old fantasy flight systems (Dark heresy, Only war, Rogue Trader, Death watch, Black crusade.) But I am an avid collector of sytemes and books from cyberpunk 5e, The old starship troopers Role-playing game, World of darkness and its funny sequel reboot chronicles of darkness, the star wars games, He'll I have run the fan made Naruto and bleach classless rpgss at one point and so much more. In general I am willing to run most systems and games just don't expect "power fantasy" and Rightousness to be core parts of the story. Characters gear strong as a product of there wits and enviroument and being good often goes unrewarded. On the topic of good I am also a fan of villainous campaigns from your Disney villains too your vlad the impaled and hat nailers. So if you ever wanted to play out some actual evil I can provide that too.
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Creating your character
We will go through all of character creation and build out the player group and there squad-mates during session 0. Players will be making power level 7 characters during the start of the war and this will likely shift as the story moves forward and as a group we move through time. i like to imagine that by the time we reach ww2 we might reach around PL13ish but maybe that will change! i have had this idea cooking for years and never had a chance to run it (i have run pletny of M&M3e just not this exact idea). So maybe we will end up moving up the Pl chain faster or slower depending on how things go.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
https://discord.gg/Qz5YrCTBbh Yonder Discord server our VTT Table top simulator https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator/ as for books and the like i will provide all ya need during session 0!
What The Rabbit brings to the table
everything i possibly can for Table top, i have music qued i do my best to make the funny voices and pending on the context might mix in some Audio software too compliment them, (i have some nice radio filters i like to use). generally i float between Rule of Cool and RAW. generally i like RoC when it dosent hurt the game mechanics long term and RAW when something might have lasting impact on game mechanics or hurt the flow of a scene too much.
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Safety
How The Rabbit creates a safe table
Superheroes encounter a lot of bad stuff, even more so when they have to be heroic during a war. So as all ways we will be doing some Lines and Veils, haveing the big ol talk about what they might encounter and experience during session 0. and of course after every session i like to talk with my players about the session and the campaign so far and really just touch base and make sure every one is still having a good time.
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