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Ghost Archer
Mar 6th, '03, 01:06 PM
I'd like to see a data base of Player campaigns and thought this might be a way to start one up. Where is your campaign based?
The Wild Hunt operates out of San Francisco with a secondary team in Seattle.

Acroyear
Mar 6th, '03, 01:08 PM
SF Bay area, also. You get all the stuff from San Fran to Silicon Valley and everything in between.

I think port cities are important just to open it all up.

Agent Escafarc
Mar 6th, '03, 01:10 PM
The Legion of Justice works out of Haven a fictional city on the Ga./SC border.

Derek Hiemforth
Mar 6th, '03, 01:11 PM
The Watchmen is based in Lakeside, a fictional Chicago-analogue.

Acroyear
Mar 6th, '03, 01:14 PM
:( We don't have a team name... we just show up when ordered to and hope nobody is looking.

JohnTaber
Mar 6th, '03, 01:25 PM
In my campaign the heroes are called Reliance and they are stationed in the SF Bay Area. Alcatraz is a Stronghold. :)

MisterVimes
Mar 6th, '03, 01:26 PM
The New Order operates out of Trinity, Minnesota A fictional metropolis built over the ruins of Minneapolis/St, Paul

Ghost Archer
Mar 6th, '03, 01:27 PM
Originally posted by Acroyear
SF Bay area, also. You get all the stuff from San Fran to Silicon Valley and everything in between.

I think port cities are important just to open it all up.

We can handle that, Acroyear. You want the whole East Bay and San Jose?

Monolith
Mar 6th, '03, 01:28 PM
The Honor Guard are based out of Gary Indiana and cover an area between Chicago and Millennium City.

In my spare time I am writing the background for the fictional city of New Cairo, based at the southern tip of Illinois. The great flood of '93 erased the town of Cairo from the map, so Franklin Stone, feeling he missed an opportunity in Millennium City, bought up all the property, used advanced technology to levy out the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and began founding his own city.

Franklin Stone has also cut a deal with the Government to build a new Stronghold on the Angelo Towhead. This new Stronghold would hold criminals captured in the eastern half of the US while the New Mexico prison will be for those captured in the western half of the country.

New Cairo has an Egyptian feel (used to distinguish the city in its PR), and has a decadent atmosphere. There will be casinos, animal racing, and other "adult-type" entertainments. New Cairo is completely within the clutches of Franklin Stone and so will have a Metropolis/Lex Luthor bent but with many of the darker aspects of Gotham City at the same time.

Blue
Mar 6th, '03, 01:29 PM
The Sentinels operate out of the fictional city of Lazarus, whose location is irrelevant (Since the campaign is contained to the massive city and it's surrounding environs). But if you have to put it somewhere, it's on the central california coast.

Peregrine
Mar 6th, '03, 01:33 PM
A city of my own creation, fleshed out over the last 10 years or so: Trinity City, located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. I'm currently aiming for a flavor that I call (for lack of a better descriptor) 'superheroic Dark Champions'.

Edit:
(Note to self - read the thread before posting!)

Having seen that I am not the only one to put a city at that location, I can only say that Trinity City's history diverges in the 19th century.

SuperPheemy
Mar 6th, '03, 01:34 PM
Titans Among the Stars takes place near a distant colony world of Valagarn, but in scope crosses the breadth of the Galaxy.

nHammer
Mar 6th, '03, 01:38 PM
Many years ago in a campaign the majority of Utah got destroyed. All the PCs were killed.

When we started playing again with 5th ED. we invented New Salt Lake City. It's an ultra modern city. Because it's a high profile city in the world, it's prime picking for super viallins. Us player characters are super hero cops.

Patriot
Mar 6th, '03, 01:57 PM
Team Vanguard Has operated for 12 years in Chicago
(March 12 is our 12 year birthday)
But we have also operated out of Vanguard bases in:
Cape Fear(east coast)
Los Angeles(destroyed by minute men MK XII 2 of them)
Hong Kong
Melbourne Australia
South africa
France....(I know booo!)
and a satellite base called Avalon Station

This weekend we will be introducing our 101st member!

Acroyear
Mar 6th, '03, 02:03 PM
Originally posted by Ghost Archer
We can handle that, Acroyear. You want the whole East Bay and San Jose?

That works.

Keneton
Mar 6th, '03, 02:04 PM
The Millennium Force operates out of Millennium City.

JusticeArsenal is from New York

The Nightfist is from Pittsburgh

TheStrike Force is in Pheonix.

:)

Supreme
Mar 6th, '03, 02:04 PM
We actually like to do a lot of fictional cities. Our last Champions game was a Golden Age game set in Comet City, which was loosely modeled on New York, with a touch of Kurt Busiek's "Astro City" thrown in for flavor. Currently, I'm running a Teen-Horror (aka Paranormal-Teen) campaign set in "Usher's Grove" (also the title of the campaign). Usher's Grove is a mid-California suburb based upon Sunnydale from "Buffy", Berkeley, CA (my home town), and Davis, CA (where I went to college).

Trebuchet
Mar 6th, '03, 02:11 PM
Our globe-trotting team, MidGuard, is secretly headquartered out of Oslo, Norway. Since we are the "Avengers" of our world, we seldom deal with low-level crime. In 12 years we've only had two adventures in Norway, one of which happened because one of our characters got kidnapped in her secret ID. Most of our adventures take place in Europe, but we've literally been around the world and to every continent except Antarctica. (And I'm sure we'll end up there one of these days.)

Most commonly visited country? Great Britain (4 times).

Starhawk
Mar 6th, '03, 02:19 PM
I've run games based in Seattle, New York and LA, as well as several fictional cities--including my current one --Metrocity, which is located on the eastern seaboard.

Nato
Mar 6th, '03, 02:23 PM
In my online campaign, which we haven't played in couple of months, the PCs were based out of Chicago. Destroyed One Magnificent Mile with a meteor shower, rebuilt it with superior alloys and such and renamed it the Monument. Team's base was there.

In the table-top campaign I just started with complete newbies, I'm using Millennium City. So I'm anxiously awaiting the book.

SuperBlue
Mar 6th, '03, 02:35 PM
Ha! I got one that none of you touched!

My game (we won't be able to get started until next week) takes place in Metro City (Which is based on the places I've lived - Cheyenne Wyoming, Windsor Missouri, and Warrensburg, MO - in addition to what I know about Kansas City (which is conveniently called "The Metro" :D )

Hermit
Mar 6th, '03, 02:39 PM
My own campgains (infrequent) are based in the fictional city of Los Santos, CA, and I'm starting one on up in Millenium City (Which means I'm eagerly awaiting the book as well) :)

But I've played all over.

Thought about basing one outside the U.S., but really can't pick.

Mayday
Mar 6th, '03, 02:42 PM
Vanguard was in New Orleans.

Gotham Maintenance was in Gotham City. (Batman's town)

Colonial Bay is on the East Coast in I think Virginia.

Was in a European UN type team, based in Paris I think but we spent most of our time in Germany.

I ran one based in New York, with teleport terminals to Denver, Athens, Cairo, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, France, Russia, and El Salvador... (Basically to where they lived)

Most of our games take place in 'a city' which may have a name but generally doesnt really have a specific place.... although there was a superhero baseball minor leage team in Florida.

Nato
Mar 6th, '03, 02:43 PM
How about Prague? or Minsk?

Vondy
Mar 6th, '03, 02:56 PM
My Freedom Patrol campaign happens all over the world, but their primary headquarters (waterfront campus) is in Annapolis, MD, with their operations center on Parson's Island in Chesapeake Bay (within superheroic throwing distance of the main hq).

The Seattle Sentinels are in... Seattle.

Freedom, Inc. -- the spinoff of the now defunct Freedom Patrol game (after 10 years, thank G-d!) is based in San Francisco.

I also ran a street level game that took place in Detroit.

lemming
Mar 6th, '03, 03:04 PM
The Portland Metro Team nicknamed "Stumptown Supers" is based in Portland, Oregon.

Previous games I was either in or ran:
Protectors, originally Boston, but soon with franchises in Chicago and SF.
FIST was a previous SF game.
The Mariners were also SF.
Furies were New York.
We had a NATO team out of Brussels with heroes from NATO countries.
The SE Asia game wound up based somewhere in the Phillipines IIRC. Thai, Vietnam, Phillipines, Australia, Japan, Micronesia, and New Zealand were all represented. (I think I'm missing a couple other countries...)
My Golden Age campaign which was the prehistory of my Portland game was all over WWII.

One city was Sam Bell's "Campaign City". It was kind of based in the Champions Universe. Campaign City had it all, ancient ruins, jungles, mountains, swamps, etc... right in the suburbs.

dbsousa
Mar 6th, '03, 03:09 PM
Good Guys, Incorporated, had headquarters in New York, with a main branch in Nueva Madrid, built on the ashes of old Madrid after an alien invasion. Nueva Madrid hosted the world's only commercial spaceport, and Spain was rapidly becoming the world's economic leader.

JohnOSpencer
Mar 6th, '03, 04:40 PM
The last game I played was based in the Baltimore/Washington Area.

The current game I run is located in San Francisco.

John Spencer

SAW
Mar 6th, '03, 05:37 PM
The Gateway Guardians are based in "The Gateway to the West" St. Louis, MO. The Gateway Arch is actually a site of mystic power and has attracted much weirdness over the years. Unbeknownst to most people (including the players :) ) the Arch was designed by a slightly insane engineer who dabbled in magic. He used special materials in the construction that he thought would help attract mystic energies. He was correct. However, he was incorrect in thinking that he could control said energies and he died, of what most people think was a heart attack, right after it's completion.


Originally posted by Monolith
In my spare time I am writing the background for the fictional city of New Cairo, based at the southern tip of Illinois.

Speaking as someone who lives in southern Illinois, don't go breaking too much stuff. :p :D

SAW

Seenar
Mar 6th, '03, 05:45 PM
Guardians Prime in Washington DC

Counter Strike in LA

Counter Strike: Legacy in LA of the Future (inspired to take 2nd gen of previous characters a la Batman: Beyond)

Peregrine
Mar 6th, '03, 06:01 PM
Originally posted by SAW


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Originally posted by Monolith
In my spare time I am writing the background for the fictional city of New Cairo, based at the southern tip of Illinois.
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Speaking as someone who lives in southern Illinois, don't go breaking too much stuff. :p :D

SAW

In Trinity City, I did. Old Cairo (where Cairo is R/W) was sunk beneath the converging rivers by a freak earthquake in September 1945 (the fact that there was a superbattle occurring in Old Cairo that included a seismic-powered super has not been confirmed as being related to the disaster). In the 1980s, on the site of Old Cairo, a massive combination artificial island/building was constructed. Officially named Government Island (because it was intended to house the city government of Trinity City), it has come to be popularly known as Trinity Island, and it is the location of not only city government, but Federal government offices (including a PRIMUS base), various nations consulates, and UNTIL's North American Regional Headquarters (moved there in 1993-94, after the U.S> signed the Tribunal Treaty).

cjudisch
Mar 6th, '03, 06:30 PM
The Super League opperates out of its Orbital Space Station "The Lighthouse" located at the L-5 Lagrange point.

The group has a global sphere of operations facing threats to life and freedom on a world-wide scale.

Almost all of the group's heroes fight crime in their home cities when not on League buisness.

Paragon - patrols Africa from his Secret Fortress atop Mount Kilamenjaro.

Dark Knight - Prowls the back alleys of his native Chicago.

The Amazon - Defends all of Greece from her island home in the Aegean.

The shapeshiting alien dubbed Proteus has no set home and resides in the Lighthouse full time.

Lightbringer - protects his home on the island of New Los Angeles (Earthquake Caused by Dr. Desrtoyer) from both Crime and Natural Disaster.

Raptor - the genetically-engineered Human/Avian hybrid patrolls the American Northwest from his Aviary in Seattle.

Speed - Spends his time cleaning up his home town of Phildelphia (when he's not on the verge of getting fired from his job as an English Teacher in an Inner City high school).

TheEmerged
Mar 6th, '03, 06:46 PM
The Ravagers (well, that's what the press dubbed them anyway), the villains my PC's are running, operate from Butler County Ohio (between Cincinnati & Dayton). This puts them distressingly close to the Justice Battalion (pro-Registration Act good guys), which operates out of a refurbished Union Terminal in Cincinnati -- as well as to the main branch of the Defiants Proper (anti-Registration Act good guys), which exists to the north.

Syberdwarf2
Mar 6th, '03, 06:59 PM
"Queen City Knights" is my vigilante, Dark Champs campaign based out of Charlotte, NC.

"Twin Galaxies" is a SH campaign starting out at the tail end of the Sagitarian Arm of the Milky Way.

MisterVimes
Mar 6th, '03, 07:08 PM
Originally posted by Syberdwarf2
"Queen City Knights" is my vigilante, Dark Champs campaign based out of Charlotte, NC.

I visted Charlotte on business 2 years ago. My group was playing Vampire and I was SO weirded out when I noticed that every street sign had the LaSombra logo.

Monolith
Mar 6th, '03, 07:13 PM
Originally posted by SAW
Speaking as someone who lives in southern Illinois, don't go breaking too much stuff. :p :D
I promise to be good. :)

Monolith
Mar 6th, '03, 07:15 PM
Originally posted by Peregrine
Having seen that I am not the only one to put a city at that location, I can only say that Trinity City's history diverges in the 19th century.
It is strange that two of us would pick the same location. Of course I have never actually been there, but it seemed like a good spot for a "Super City."

ahduval
Mar 6th, '03, 07:42 PM
For the campaign that I have run/plan to run, I wanted an area that I could
totally control, without fear of being contradicted by a book or a player.

So I looked at a map and after choosing and discarding several choices, I noticed an island. The island called the Isle d'Anticosti in the St Lawrance Seaway.

A little edit of history, and I had the Federal city of Liberty.

KawangaKid
Mar 6th, '03, 09:54 PM
My Metro Manila campaign "Champions of Manila" features the Philippine team attached to the metahuman agency called FREELancers Philippines. This is directly lifted from the Top Secret/SI campaign also known as FREELancers.

My Bay Area campaign "Champions of Bay City" features the parent organization FREELancers (West Coast).

Neither has an official team name. All 'secret ID's' are assigned code names for operatives.

Evil Steve
Mar 6th, '03, 10:16 PM
my upcoming campaign is in Terminal City, the local nickname for Vancouver, B.C. Most of my campaigns have been in Vancouver. I live here, it makes it easy to remember where everything is. :)

Previous to that, it was Genericopolis (A typical big city), the largest city on an island in the central Pacific.

death tribble
Mar 7th, '03, 02:12 AM
The Protectors started in late 1984 in London. They spread to encompass Manchester in the North East and Newcastle in the North West. They operated worldwide and off planet when needed.

The Pride of London were a local police team in London.

The 17 is what I am working on now. They are the UN team and operate world wide. They do have a special incursion unit which is not part of the 17 proper. And a backing agency. No UNTIL, no VIPER, no Takofenes, no Crown of Krim, no Tyrannon and no dimensional Queen whatever. Probably no Doc Destroyer as is.

Alien Knight
Mar 7th, '03, 05:21 AM
Originally posted by lemming
The Portland Metro Team nicknamed "Stumptown Supers" is based in Portland, Oregon.

Previous games I was either in or ran:
Protectors, originally Boston, but soon with franchises in Chicago and SF.
FIST was a previous SF game.
The Mariners were also SF.
Furies were New York.
We had a NATO team out of Brussels with heroes from NATO countries.
The SE Asia game wound up based somewhere in the Phillipines IIRC. Thai, Vietnam, Phillipines, Australia, Japan, Micronesia, and New Zealand were all represented. (I think I'm missing a couple other countries...)
My Golden Age campaign which was the prehistory of my Portland game was all over WWII.

One city was Sam Bell's "Campaign City". It was kind of based in the Champions Universe. Campaign City had it all, ancient ruins, jungles, mountains, swamps, etc... right in the suburbs.

That's wild, I played in a game where our team was called the Protectors. We started in Boston and later started a second campaign where the team was based in San Fran. The Midwest team was based in River City (Detroit) though.

Other teams include:

Shadow Force -- Upstate New York, I forget the city's name, same place as KFC headquarters.

Aegis -- Central City: A fictionalized version of Chicago. (Current Game)

ICE -- International team based in Iceland.

Ninja Strike Force Takashi (Ok, so they never really had an official group name): Took place in cyberpunk Detroit.

There were more, but those lasted the longest and had actual set locations.

Acroyear II
Mar 7th, '03, 05:54 AM
The Justice Force has been active in Detroit City since 1983. The current time of the campaign is 1988.

The other teams of this campaign are: The Birds of Prey, who operate in Boulder, Colorado. This team is soon to be defunct. There is also Heroes At Large, a hero for hire team that operates out of Hollywood, California. Finally, there is the Justice Force West, an NPC team of heroes operating in Los Angeles.

Acroyear II

TheImperialKhan
Mar 7th, '03, 06:13 AM
I've played in quite a few groups and a large number of campaigns in the 20+ years that I've been playing Champions. In the begining we mostly put our heroes in NYC, we were all Marvel readers and New York is pretty much Hero Central in that Universe so we went with that.

As time went on we started setting our campaigns in the city we were gaming in, Worcester MA, it was home for most of us and everyone was reasonably familiar with it, which made describing things a lot easier. After a while we decided that Worcester was just too small for a super-team and started using Boston instead, although we still used Worcester for small one-on-one campaigns. There was one campaign that bucked the trend and was set in Houston TX (a place the none of us had ever been to), don't look at me, it wasn't my idea and no one asked my opinion.

When Justice, Not Law introduced us to Hudson City we moved our street-level campaigns there. By then we were only using two settings: Boston and Hudson City (which we placed in CT by the way).

I'm hoping to get a new campaign started using Millennium City, unfortunately except for that silly card game whose name I wll not mention :D gaming is kinda dead around here nowadays. So it may never happen but I keep hoping.

Peregrine
Mar 7th, '03, 07:02 AM
Originally posted by Monolith
It is strange that two of us would pick the same location. Of course I have never actually been there, but it seemed like a good spot for a "Super City."

I've never been there either; the route from Atlanta to St. Louis goes close, depending on which way you go from the end of I-24, but I've always bypassed it. I was drawn to it by the 'transportation crossroads' aspect of two major rivers converging. Add 19th century rail lines and, voila! Burgeoning metropolis.

And the whole Earthquake of '45 thing wasn't my idea. It was my co-developer's, who is an old Army buddy of mine.

Fry Daddy
Mar 7th, '03, 07:12 AM
The Last Resort is located in the fictional city of Patriot City. We are wrapping up the campaing, and our next one will be located in the fictional city of Paragon City, on the former site of Topeka, Kansas.

I dumped Patriot City becuase of the Freedom Force game.

Monolith
Mar 7th, '03, 07:22 AM
Originally posted by Peregrine
I was drawn to it by the 'transportation crossroads' aspect of two major rivers converging. Add 19th century rail lines and, voila! Burgeoning metropolis.
That is the same reason I choose it. River transportation going up and down the Mississippi and Ohio, railway traffic crisscrossing the center of the country, and Franklin Stone trying to control it all. It seemed like a perfect match. :)

I chose to use the Flood of '93 because it happens after the Battle of Detroit. Seemed like a good time for Franklin Stone to make his move, since he somewhat missed his chance in MC.

winterhawk
Mar 7th, '03, 08:12 AM
Originally posted by Monolith
In my spare time I am writing the background for the fictional city of New Cairo, based at the southern tip of Illinois. The great flood of '93 erased the town of Cairo from the map, so Franklin Stone, feeling he missed an opportunity in Millennium City, bought up all the property, used advanced technology to levy out the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and began founding his own city.

That is a really cool idea!

Over ten years or so, I've ran FORCE, The Night Shift & The Hollywood Knights out of Los Angeles.

For DC Heroes, I created Steel City. Located in Central Pennsylvania, it is a midpoint between Philly and Pittsburgh and a powerful Mafia powerbase.

My 5th edition campaign will be set in Chicago per 5th CU. My first campaign in my hometown!

red_eagle123
Mar 7th, '03, 08:41 AM
The game I run is set in Milwaukee, WI for the most part.

The team, mostly novice Hero Players, chose to call themselves the Protectors. Considering they just made world news recently, I'm debating having them meet the True Protectors...

MilkmanDan
Mar 7th, '03, 08:48 AM
Well, we play in Northern Virginia (DC 'burbs), so we're Team NOVA, which seemed darn appropriate until I thought I saw a Nova team in the Champions book. I also saw somewhere a deeply disturbing reference to a character named "Tesseract", which until then I thought was an incredibly inventive and unique name for my character.

Stupid @#$@#!! continuity.

zen_hydra
Mar 7th, '03, 10:36 AM
"Well, we play in Northern Virginia (DC 'burbs), so we're Team NOVA, which seemed darn appropriate until I thought I saw a Nova team in the Champions book. I also saw somewhere a deeply disturbing reference to a character named "Tesseract", which until then I thought was an incredibly inventive and unique name for my character.

I too had a character named Tesseract, thought I was quite clever, and was subsequently disappointed when I saw the CKC character.

MarkusDark
Mar 7th, '03, 10:58 AM
Although I haven't been there in a decade plus, I use it as the base of my game since I spent some time in and around it while goin' to school. The geography is set around 1990 - back when no buildings could be higher than ol' William Penn - but the true time is current.

As I am out here in California, I figure that using a real city is something people can relate to (I found it on the map!) and if they ever go there, they can have fun (So here's Liberty Park. I kicked Poltergeist's ASS right here!). Meanwhile it is on the other coast so I won't have players saying "Why not use the Bart Station at Powell?" or "Mission and Castro don't cross!".

Tech
Mar 7th, '03, 12:03 PM
Let's see... in the campaign I'm in, we have one supergroup in downtown Los Angeles, one in the outskirts of New York state, one in heart of New York City - only 10 minutes away from Central Park, one in Chicago and finally, one in Santa Barbara. Wow, five supergroups and they're all being used - not too shabby.

Uncle Shecky
Mar 7th, '03, 01:10 PM
In games where we specified a city, we used Chicago or New York, but often we just played in "The City."

If I was running a game now, I'd use San Angelo. I'm surprised no one else has said they use it.

Prometheus
Mar 7th, '03, 02:48 PM
The jet-set crew of Freedom Force, formerly Freedom Five, keeps Los Angeles sunny and safe. The 10th to 15th floors of Drake Towers- built on the former site of the Bonaventure Hotel- house the team's HQ.

EvilGM
Mar 7th, '03, 03:26 PM
Bloodshot and I run games in the fictional city of St. Augustine, Oregon. It is located where the real world Smith and Umpqua rivers meet (yes, those are real river names).

I have also run a pbem set in York, Ontario (Toronto by another name :).

AlHazred
Mar 7th, '03, 07:38 PM
The Vigilance League has been given a headquarters across the street from Central Park in New York City. But they can be found wherever danger threatens.

Of course, the current campaign year is 1938, so they might be a bit too old to play with the young'uns...

Graviton
Mar 8th, '03, 06:49 AM
The Champions (our Champions, not Hero Games' Champions) operate out of NYC. The Guardians are based in Indianapolis. The FBI's Field Intelligence, Reconnaisance, and Enforcement (FIRE) Team is based in D.C. And our renegade heroes, Reaction Force, have a secret base tucked away in the Colorado Rockies, augmented by an alien ship in geosynchronous orbit.

The Guardians did set up shop in the top 5 floors of the Banc One Tower in downtown Indy, until numerous supervillain attacks convinced the city and the building's other tenants to basically throw them out (yeah I swiped the idea from the FF, but it made sense.) They've taken over an underground complex that was part of Ft. Benjamin Harrison, which the Army closed several years ago, on the NE side of Indy.

Graviton
Mar 8th, '03, 06:59 AM
Originally posted by Mayday
although there was a superhero baseball minor leage team in Florida.

How awesome is that !?! I've thought about running a "day-off" scenario with one of our teams where they play baseball using their powers. Haven't worked it out yet, but I'm totally in love with the idea.

MisterVimes
Mar 8th, '03, 07:26 AM
Originally posted by Mayday
although there was a superhero baseball minor leage team in Florida.

My campaign has an 'Unlimited Class' Wrestling Federation. It's for the Metahumans that haven't the firepower or desire to be 'heroes' or 'villains'. The storylines of the program are scripted, but the Metas can take bigger bumps. :D

Graviton
Mar 8th, '03, 07:49 AM
Originally posted by MisterVimes
My campaign has an 'Unlimited Class' Wrestling Federation. It's for the Metahumans that haven't the firepower or desire to be 'heroes' or 'villains'. The storylines of the program are scripted, but the Metas can take bigger bumps. :D

Also a very cool idea, and one that makes sense; who's to say everybody who has powers would become a hero or villain?? Look at Spider-Man, at first he just wanted to make some quick and easy dough. Even when he went to join the FF he asked what the starting salary was.

I did run a Pay-Per-View event last year where two of our hero teams duked it out for charity. One thing the PCs love/hate about my team is that their wealthy benefactor requires them to make public appearances quite often. This was watched 'round the world, and crashed (natch) by supervillains. Vegas bookmakers were laying odds on the teams, and individuals. It was a hoot.

AlHazred
Mar 8th, '03, 07:59 AM
Originally posted by MisterVimes
My campaign has an 'Unlimited Class' Wrestling Federation.

At one time, I thought about demoing the Hero System at local cons (MonCon, ShoreCon) through a multiple-heat Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation. You play a 350-point brick* and fight a number of matches until you're eliminated. Considering the number of people likely to show up, though, this could be unexpectedly labor-intensive. My idea was to have an actual belt made for the winner...

* My original idea was to use bricks from the Hero Universe; thus players could try Ironclad, someone can play Tachyon in disguise, etc. The problem was the lack of 350-point neutrals/heros. On the one hand, that would make it require a bit of work; on the other hand, it also lets the GM make analogues of Thor, Hulk, or whatever else players might like to play.

MisterVimes
Mar 8th, '03, 07:59 AM
Originally posted by Graviton
One thing the PCs love/hate about my team is that their wealthy benefactor requires them to make public appearances quite often. This was watched 'round the world, and crashed (natch) by supervillains. Vegas bookmakers were laying odds on the teams, and individuals. It was a hoot.

Great idea. My crew has government interference from AEGIS (our version of SHIELD/UNTIL/PRIMUS) and they've yet to have them land on the team with both feet... YET.

That's an idea worth stealing.

MisterVimes
Mar 8th, '03, 08:03 AM
Originally posted by AlHazred
At one time, I thought about demoing the Hero System at local cons (MonCon, ShoreCon) through a multiple-heat Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation. You play a 350-point brick* and fight a number of matches until you're eliminated. Considering the number of people likely to show up, though, this could be unexpectedly labor-intensive. My idea was to have an actual belt made for the winner...

* My original idea was to use bricks from the Hero Universe; thus players could try Ironclad, someone can play Tachyon in disguise, etc. The problem was the lack of 350-point neutrals/heros. On the one hand, that would make it require a bit of work; on the other hand, it also lets the GM make analogues of Thor, Hulk, or whatever else players might like to play.

If you remember Ninja Hero (the original), there was a scenario in the back called 'Valhalla Mountain'. It was a Kumite-style 16 man elimination battle.

This is a GREAT storyline and works well adapted to Champions or even a Fantasy setting and the Main Villain is easily adapted to fit any back-story.

Karma
Mar 8th, '03, 06:28 PM
Our team (name as yet to be determined) operates out of the Red Centre, a base in the middle of the Simpson Desert in a universe where, unlike the official Champions Universe, Australia cannot be 'safely ignored due to its lack of supers, etc'.

Crusader108
Mar 8th, '03, 07:06 PM
My group, Night Watch, is based out of fictional Gold Coast City (a combination Houston/Galveston)

Theron
Mar 9th, '03, 08:17 AM
Our Silver Age game is set in Fair City, nebulously located somewhere on the west coast of the US. Like most Silver Age comics, geography isn't exactly our strong suit. Taking a page from Toon, the action either happens Inside, Outside, Out of Town, In Another Town, or Off-World.