Thomas Shey
Legend
Let me just ask outright rather than being (accidentally) coy about it: where would the 1850's land in equivelency?
When to set a "historical" supers game? (read OP before answering poll)
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Let me just ask outright rather than being (accidentally) coy about it: where would the 1850's land in equivelency?
End of Steam, I think. When was the diesel engine invented?
I chose "medieval" myself to start the poll, but the more I think about it, the more I would push it forward into the weird semi-modern faux-Renaissance space that D&D lives in. Superheroic personas would work well in an anachronistic but archaic setting like that, with plots inspired by Dumas and Scarlet Pimpernel and that sort.
If I had the time, I would map the superheroic history of the world through all of the eras, with the assumptions that powers wax and wane and supers only appear every few centuries or so (becoming myth and legend by the time they arise anew).
If I had the time, I would map the superheroic history of the world through all of the eras, with the assumptions that powers wax and wane and supers only appear every few centuries or so (becoming myth and legend by the time they arise anew).
the Jester
Legend
Specifically, WWII.
monsmord
Adventurer
Going faux-Renaissance, I wonder if there might be a relatively recent "event" that started the supers thing going. Like, did the first telescopes bring something down? Did European exploration across the unknown Pacific find something otherworldly (or at least unknown to contemporaneous world cultures)? Do Faustian pacts and alchemy start to work, signalling something "behind the scenes" is coming forward?
For my purposes, specifically too late. I don't want anything that is in the traditional time periods associated with supers or even pulp heroes. That is why I stopped my list at the turn of the 20th century.
Crimson Longinus
Legend
How is that not high powered fantasy?
Like what is you definition of "superheroes?" Myths and fantasy are full of people with "superpowers" but these are not considered superhero stories.
I voted steam age. I think you could make it feel like superheroes whilst still being somewhat novel about it.
I agree that superheroes are more than just people with powers. Gilgamesh and Heracles can be played in those terms.
I'm not super fond of steampunk, generally, but I think it is a valid superhero "era."
Thomas Shey
Legend
Wikipedia says 1893.
Thomas Shey
Legend
It was my period of choice, but I was thinking of it more in terms of Old West/Victorian era; if your supers include technologists there's probably going to be some steampunk-like elements, but that isn't strictly necessary just because you're telling a superhero story, and it might make some of the setup easier if you didn't go there.
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