Solicitating Comments on my Urban Arcana Campaign

Sir Elton

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To heck with D&D, I'm going Urban Arcana for my campaign. While thinking on an U.A. campaign tonight I was watching one of the commercials for Van Helsing and that was when I made a connection for my campaign.

In my U.A. Campaign, the principal organization the player characters are affiliated with is Phantom Corporation, which is owned, incidentally, by Van Helsing Investigations, Ltd. based in London.

Phantom Corporation is a private company that on the outside is a paraspychological and cryptozoological investigation agency. On the inside, the workers of Phantom Corp protect both mundanes and shadowkind from the threat of dangerous monsters and insideous mundane organizations like Hydra and the Inverted Pyramid.

Phantom Corp controls three other companies to help finance their operations. They include Gringwalds Bank of Utah (which is, incidently, almost entirely staffed by goblins), First Zurich Securities of Utah (staffed almost entirely by gnomes), and Harmon Films.

Department 7 is an arm of the Federal Government charged with investigating and policing the Shadowkind in America.

The Inverted Pyramid is a cult intending on bringing Set back from the Underworld so that they can dominate the world. Hydra is an organization bent on controling the Shadowkind that comes from the gate.

Phantom Corp is run by the American Branch of the Van Helsing family. Michael Van Helsing runs the business end while Marc Van Helsing V is the Corp's top operative.

Phantom Corp has branch offices in Seattle, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Miami, Duluth, Baltimore, and New York City. Salt Lake City, a city which shines the brightest, has the deepest shadows. And that is where the campaign takes place.
 
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I like the choice of setting (Salt Lake is an interesting town with some interesting history).

Is the campaign set in the present day?

It has sort of a pulp feel to the description.

Chuck
 


Vigilance said:
I like the choice of setting (Salt Lake is an interesting town with some interesting history).

Is the campaign set in the present day?

It has sort of a pulp feel to the description.

Chuck

I'm waffling between starting the players out at 7th Level and 1st level. 7th level is the equivalent of starting Feng Shui characters. And yes, it is set in the modern day.
 
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Asmor said:
It seems interesting, but I don't really see much a campaign idea. All you've given is background info.

New T.V. Series Campaign

Formula:
Urbane Arcana. Monsters and the magic of Fantasy like in The Lord of the Rings intrude upon our modern world. The heroes are like anime characters who investigate the fantasy world of Salt Lake City.

Theme and Tone.
Urbane Arcana. The Fantasy exists alongside the Mundane. Most people don’t see the fantasy, but can the heroes defend the populace from horrible monsters?
The Tone: is an exaggerated, black humor tone with over the top action
 

Is it all like the sci-fi/fantasy comedy that was on a couple years ago with the agency and they had the leprechaun that was their informant. Can't remember the show, but recently was talking with someone about it. Pretty funny from the couple times I saw it.

Tellerve
 

Tellerve said:
Is it all like the sci-fi/fantasy comedy that was on a couple years ago with the agency and they had the leprechaun that was their informant. Can't remember the show, but recently was talking with someone about it. Pretty funny from the couple times I saw it.

Tellerve

Wow! I don't remember such a show. It must have been on Sci-Fi.

Anyway, I'm waffling on adding certain Spycraft rules, as well. Who was the one who made up some Advanced Classes from the classes of Spycraft?
 

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