League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[Ranger REG]

So a modern LoEG would be made up of...?

The Hardy Boys. Nancy Drew. Encyclopedia Brown. Dresden. Harry Potter.

 

[Oni]

The Hardy Boys. Nancy Drew. Encyclopedia Brown. Dresden. Harry Potter.

That's one hell of a team up.

 

[RefinedBean]

The Hardy Boys. Nancy Drew. Encyclopedia Brown. Dresden. Harry Potter.

Heh, not too shabby.

I think their vehicle should be Stephen King's Christine, kept in check by a remote-detonation bomb hidden somewhere in her evil, evil belly.

 

[wolfen fenrison]

John Clark (various tom clancy books), Steve Austin (cyborg, martin caidin), Rachel Morgan (the hollows series, kim harrison), Lestat (the vampire chronicles, anne rice), Harry Dresden (the dresden files, jim butcher),

Alternates; Ian Malcolm (jurassic park series, michael chriton), Robert Langdon (the da vinci code, dan brown), Jason Bourne (the bourne series, robert ludlum), Anita Blake (anita blake: vampire hunter, laurell hamilton), Johnny Smith (the dead zone, stephen king)

 

[malladin]

So, monsterous by social standards, interesting and insightful but what about Quatermain's duty and Nemo's honour. What about Mina, a social outcast yes but a real heroine in the literary mold. Capt Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond is a retired WW1 officer who bored of civilian life becomes a private detective and occasional agent of the crown. He appeared in a series of novels and Richard Coleman movies in the 20's and 30's. Also for the 30's league how about Fu Manchus arch nemisis Arthur Nayland Smith, the dashing Major General Sir Richard Hannay, of 39 steps fame, hard drinking but stylish retired detective Nick ,The Thin Man' Charles, the debonair and resourceful Simon 'The Saint' Templar when he was George Saunders, the dark edged genius secret agent Mr Moto and to replace hyde as a tragic monster Lon Chaney Jnr's Wolfman. And how could I forget Biggles

 

[Stormborn]

So, monsterous by social standards, interesting and insightful but what about Quatermain's duty and Nemo's honour. What about Mina, a social outcast yes but a real heroine in the literary mold.

I think it would be more appropriate to suggest that Moore, when freed from the constraints of someone else's properites, tends to focus on the most noble and most monsterous aspects of any character he writes. They are both Heroes and Monsters in Moore's mind, primarilly because he seems to suggest that they have a different kind of morality. Often any monstrosity is simply to emphasize the alieness of his subject, although at times he shows this in different ways. This, I think, due in part ot his occult beliefs - which I wont go into here.

So, to keep with his style characters, however noble their literary depicitons, should possess some monsterous aspect as well - even the mundane monstrosity of addiction - or at least some inhuman aspect.

However, for a different take on literary character mixing together and adventuring I would suggest Kim Newman's Diogenese Club stories, or in a different vein (no pun intended) his Anno Dracula novels. In those works the heroic is more purely heroic and the monsters clearly monsterous, generally at least.

 

[malladin]

I think you've hit the nail on the head 100% Scott. Personally, if I were to do a LoEG I'd only use literary characters and they'd all be British, but that's because I'm a comics purist

 

[greatamericanfolkher]

I had an idea for a lower powered M&M game based on the idea of a LoXG-style grouping of characters from modern television. It went something like Joe Friday from Dragnet, Darien Fawxe from Sci-Fi’s Invisible Man, Frank Parker from Seven Days, and John Doe from the series of the same name. If I were to run it today I would also add Sarah Connor from Terminator. I liked the idea of all of them having to join forces, but I could never put a plot together to use them all that didn’t feel forced.

 

[Stormborn]

I think you've hit the nail on the head 100% Scott. Personally, if I were to do a LoEG I'd only use literary characters and they'd all be British, but that's because I'm a comics purist

Thanks. And of course you would! But you must remember that we on this side of the pond tend to forget that things like Dr. Jekyl, Dracula, and the others are inherently British, they have become such a part of our (American) culture. I think it would be interesting, and most appropriate, for people to base their version of the League on their own cultural background. Certainly to have players invested in the game it needs to be characters with which they are familar.

 

[malladin]

Thanks. And of course you would! But you must remember that we on this side of the pond tend to forget that things like Dr. Jekyl, Dracula, and the others are inherently British, they have become such a part of our (American) culture. I think it would be interesting, and most appropriate, for people to base their version of the League on their own cultural background. Certainly to have players invested in the game it needs to be characters with which they are familar.

Again, Scott I agree, which is why I tried to include a few colonials in my suggestions for a 30s group . M&M is a great system for this sort of thing as is SoTC. I find the modern group really hard to do, I don't think even The Black Dossier worked that well. Looking at other models for a group is a nice approach.