Well, welcome everybody.
Last Saturday, I began to run a new campaign using the new Natural 20 superhero toolkit, Four Color to Fantasy (FCTF). In fact, I must begin thanking Morrus, who kindly sent me a pre-release version to prepare the first session, because the release date was delayed some days and he knew I had a game... So thanks a lot, Morrus, this Story Hour is dedicated to you.
I had always wanted to run a supers campaign using d20, but I hadn't found a ruleset that I liked. I've got Foundation, Godlike, Paragon and Deeds Not Words, but none of them were exactly what I wanted. And when I saw the preview of FCTF in Asgard, I knew I had found my game. But I'm not here to explain why I like FCTF (if you want to know, I've written a review
), I'm here to tell you the Story of my new campaign. Here we go!
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Golden Apple Rescue Squad
Golden Apple. A middle size city in the East Coast of the USA in a world not too different from ours. A world where, after WWII, parahumans (the politically correct word for mutants) began to be born. In this world (let's call it Terra 2, as a small homage to classic DC era), almost everything is like in ours, besides those ultrapowerful guys and gals in spandex suits who fly around kicking each other superbutts.
Almost every important city has its officially endorsed parahuman protector (the biggest cities like New York or Boston have even a parahuman team) and they are popular and loved by the population.Independent parahuman heroes exist, but they authorities don't like them, and general public usually distrust them. Most parahumans work as highly qualified and well payed specialists (e.g. chemics and atomic industries employs a lot of telekinetic parahumans for doing high presition manipulatons on dangerous substances). Supervillains are not as common as you could think, why would you use your Energy Blast to rob a bank and risk to be captured by the local caped cop when you could gain a very very good salary using it to dig tunnels for a mining company?
Golden Apple, too small to be considered one of the big cities of the East Coast yet too big to be a peaceful middle size city. The mayor, Tom Eastroad, wanted to place Golden Apple in every map, wanted 'his' city to be one of the big ones. And he knew that good publicity in the media was the first step. But publicity is expensive, and Golden Apple's budget wasn't ready for such a waste. So he needed another solution. And he found it. He had an idea, and idea that would force every TV station to speak about Golden Apple: he would create an officially endorsed parahuman team. But not the usual team, to fight criminals and those vulgar things. He would create a highly trained parahuman rescue squad, that would operate in all the New England area helping local rescue staff with their parahuman powers, and giving Golden Apple its share of free publicity each time their members help to solve a crisis. Some days latter, in a masive press conference, the Golden Apple Rescue Squad (GARS) was born.
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I will try to post a small update daily, at least for a while. Tomorrow (or latter today, if I find time), I will begin with the first member of the team, Dandy. Please, if you read this story, drop a comment. Even a short one will be welcome
Last Saturday, I began to run a new campaign using the new Natural 20 superhero toolkit, Four Color to Fantasy (FCTF). In fact, I must begin thanking Morrus, who kindly sent me a pre-release version to prepare the first session, because the release date was delayed some days and he knew I had a game... So thanks a lot, Morrus, this Story Hour is dedicated to you.
I had always wanted to run a supers campaign using d20, but I hadn't found a ruleset that I liked. I've got Foundation, Godlike, Paragon and Deeds Not Words, but none of them were exactly what I wanted. And when I saw the preview of FCTF in Asgard, I knew I had found my game. But I'm not here to explain why I like FCTF (if you want to know, I've written a review
), I'm here to tell you the Story of my new campaign. Here we go!------------------------------
Golden Apple Rescue Squad
Golden Apple. A middle size city in the East Coast of the USA in a world not too different from ours. A world where, after WWII, parahumans (the politically correct word for mutants) began to be born. In this world (let's call it Terra 2, as a small homage to classic DC era), almost everything is like in ours, besides those ultrapowerful guys and gals in spandex suits who fly around kicking each other superbutts.
Almost every important city has its officially endorsed parahuman protector (the biggest cities like New York or Boston have even a parahuman team) and they are popular and loved by the population.Independent parahuman heroes exist, but they authorities don't like them, and general public usually distrust them. Most parahumans work as highly qualified and well payed specialists (e.g. chemics and atomic industries employs a lot of telekinetic parahumans for doing high presition manipulatons on dangerous substances). Supervillains are not as common as you could think, why would you use your Energy Blast to rob a bank and risk to be captured by the local caped cop when you could gain a very very good salary using it to dig tunnels for a mining company?
Golden Apple, too small to be considered one of the big cities of the East Coast yet too big to be a peaceful middle size city. The mayor, Tom Eastroad, wanted to place Golden Apple in every map, wanted 'his' city to be one of the big ones. And he knew that good publicity in the media was the first step. But publicity is expensive, and Golden Apple's budget wasn't ready for such a waste. So he needed another solution. And he found it. He had an idea, and idea that would force every TV station to speak about Golden Apple: he would create an officially endorsed parahuman team. But not the usual team, to fight criminals and those vulgar things. He would create a highly trained parahuman rescue squad, that would operate in all the New England area helping local rescue staff with their parahuman powers, and giving Golden Apple its share of free publicity each time their members help to solve a crisis. Some days latter, in a masive press conference, the Golden Apple Rescue Squad (GARS) was born.
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I will try to post a small update daily, at least for a while. Tomorrow (or latter today, if I find time), I will begin with the first member of the team, Dandy. Please, if you read this story, drop a comment. Even a short one will be welcome
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