League of Extraordinary Gentelmen

[Dave99]

Anyone have any information on a setting base on the movie.

I think it would be a great setting. Have a speical stay alive power for each character, run it in a 1920-1930 time frame.

Thoughts?

[Aroooo]

There are a few threads in this section as well as the Champions section covering this sort of thing. Search for LXG and you should find them.

As to me, we're running an occasional LXG game, based in 1880's London, using 250 point characters. Each charaacter is limited to one 'gimik' or 'schtick' if you will. They can have a few powers associated with their gimik. We've got a werewolf, a vampire, an invisible man, an immortal (not in the Highlander fashion), a pyrokinetic, and a metal man, to list a few of the PC's so far. Its been fun.

In one of the LXG threads I listed a bunch of links on the net leading to some cool Victorian web sites, with some good maps of Victorian London.

Aroooo

[grymlocke]

shouldn't it be called

'League of Extraordinary HEROES' ?

:cool:

[Seraphim]

As I have mentioned somewhere before, I have been playing a LXG type game with only 75 points and 75 points disadvantages.

Group consists of:-

Dr. Doolittle
Baron Munchausen
Van Helsing
Tarzan
Ebenezer Scrooge
Capt. Ahab

Bad Guy is Aleister Crowley

[keithcurtis]

Originally posted by Seraphim
As I have mentioned somewhere before, I have been playing a LXG type game with only 75 points and 75 points disadvantages.

Group consists of:-

Dr. Doolittle
Baron Munchausen
Van Helsing
Tarzan
Ebenezer Scrooge
Capt. Ahab

Bad Guy is Aleister Crowley
If not write-ups, could you briefly give us an idea anbout what each contributes? Some are obvious (Tarzan, Doolittle), others not so much (Scrooge?)

Keith "just curious" Curtis

[Fuzzy Gnome]

Maybe Scrooge has an entangle based on some chains he forged himself, link by link, but no longer needs for their original purpose.

[John Desmarais]

Originally posted by Dave99
Anyone have any information on a setting base on the movie.

I think it would be a great setting. Have a speical stay alive power for each character, run it in a 1920-1930 time frame.

Thoughts?

Well, let see. The game that I was run at the Richmond Gamefest (cancelled due you hurricane) was more or less in this vein - although set closer to the turn of the century. It had (would have had?) the following characters:

Thomas Carnacki (the ghost hunter)

James Douglas Henry (grandson of John Henry)

Irene Adler (the only woman to get the better of Sherlock Holmes)

Arsene Lupin (Gentleman Cambrioleur)

Jules de Grandin (supernatural detective)

John Reid (the Lone Ranger, retired)

Martha Canary (aka Calamity Jane)

Alie Dunbar (the Beautiful White Devil)

Digory Kirke (bonus question: Who recognizes this name?)


Hopefully, they can rescheduled the cconvention for sometime I'm available this Spring.

John Desmarais

[keithcurtis]

Originally posted by John Desmarais
Digory Kirke (bonus question: Who recognizes this name?)

The professor from the Chronicles of Narnia.

Keith "Aslan's Pal" Curtis

[Twilight]

Originally posted by Fuzzy Gnome
Maybe Scrooge has an entangle based on some chains he forged himself, link by link, but no longer needs for their original purpose.

Scrooge doesn't need such gimmickery. Obviously he's the money man for the team. Having learned the error of his ways that one Christmas Eve, he now does his level best to make up for all the bad he's done in his life so he supports the team.

[keithcurtis]

Originally posted by Twilight
Scrooge doesn't need such gimmickery. Obviously he's the money man for the team. Having learned the error of his ways that one Christmas Eve, he now does his level best to make up for all the bad he's done in his life so he supports the team.

I was just thinking about him through the eyes of a PC. Playing Mr. Nice Guy Money-Bags is fine, but it sounds more NPC-ish to me. Perhaps if he has retained his ability to speak to the spirit world, that might make him more of an adventurer.

Keith "Wondering how much Tiny Tim would be worth as a DNPC" Curtis

[Twilight]

Originally posted by keithcurtis
I was just thinking about him through the eyes of a PC. Playing Mr. Nice Guy Money-Bags is fine, but it sounds more NPC-ish to me. Perhaps if he has retained his ability to speak to the spirit world, that might make him more of an adventurer.

Keith "Wondering how much Tiny Tim would be worth as a DNPC" Curtis

True enough, I was just thinking the entangle idea would be way out of character for Scrooge y'know? I mean Moore stuck as close as possible to the historys and abilities of the characters he used in LoEG, I figure a game based on it should do so as well.

[Lupus]

Originally posted by Twilight
True enough, I was just thinking the entangle idea would be way out of character for Scrooge y'know? I mean Moore stuck as close as possible to the historys and abilities of the characters he used in LoEG, I figure a game based on it should do so as well. This all depends on whether you're going 'comic' or 'movie' League. The comic was close to the source and quirky. The movie looks to be a little more Hollywood. Wilhelmina Murray being a case in point.

Not saying the movie is necessarily bad, but it is different in conceptualisation and execution. If you're running a game, you need to decide which you're doing, or pull elements from both. But some decision has to be made.

[Seraphim]

My money bags or version of m/bond is Phileas Fogg and his now divorced wife Anouda (they are still good friends.)

Baron Munchausen is the guy who does the talking but most of it is lies that he makes up as he goes along (munchausen syndrome). Also an Alcoholic.

Scrooge, is a charity worker, who still can contact the spirit world. He gets hauntings still from marley who is like a guardian angel/devil. He has no moiney himself now as he has given it away to better causes.

Van Helsing is the straight laced lets go by the plan guy. He doesnt get bought and things like that. When he is fighting sometimes gets a little enraged with all the death that he sees.

Ahab, Delerious completely still thinks that he is after the whale even though the whale was killed and he miraculously survived. Ace Harpoonist but sometimes sees the whale. In his mind.

Tarzan, has come back to look for his heritage so you have the wild man in suits trying to fit in. Failing mostly also a straight laced character, he just doesnt fit into society.

Dr. Doolittle, can't talk to the animals, he has a very high empathy with them, Polynesia the parrot can talk to the animals though. And doesnt always tell Doolittle everything. Polly is like a running imp or gremlin to doolittle.

I also have NPC of a very young William Wonka who is trying to set up a confectionary business so is studying under Phileas Fogg.

Aleister Crawley is part of their group and masquerading as their freind even though he is the ultimate evil they will face.

They have tangled with the likes of Spring Heel Jack, and they are on the case of Jack the Ripper which they dont know and thank god they dont read this forum. They are both lesser demons summoned by Crowley.

Another friend wants to join and wants to play man Friday. Which is a really cool literary figure. And I really want him to play it. BUT.........the book is set over 200 years before I have set the adventures.
If anyone has any suggestions.

I had the same problem with the Baron Munchausen as he was set 400 years before, but got out of that by the baron telling everyone that he is over 1000 years old. they dont even know if this is the same Baron from history.

[John Desmarais]

Originally posted by keithcurtis
The professor from the Chronicles of Narnia.

Keith "Aslan's Pal" Curtis

Give that man a kwepie-doll.

John D.

[altamaros]

Originally posted by Seraphim
I had the same problem with the Baron Munchausen as he was set 400 years before, but got out of that by the baron telling everyone that he is over 1000 years old. they dont even know if this is the same Baron from history. [/B]
think also of the count of Saint-Germain.


there was talkings in my own group last week to know which character the players would play :

basically there would be :

Nils Holgersson, now a full grown man. Has retained the ability to shrink at very small size.

Pinocchio, first a real little boy and then a real man. Jiminy Cricket is still giving him advices from his shoulder. can turn his body to wood at will.

Lygeia
Source: a combination between "the little Matchgirl" and Edgar Poe's Lygeia.
Lygeia died as a young age on Christmas eve in Copenhagen during the 1850's. she grew up in the netherworld and was brought back to life by a medium in a full-grown female body.
She has the ability to light "matches" (will'o'the'wisps actually). these small flames distort the perceptions of others (images/mental illusions) for short lengths of time.

Capt'n Nicholl
Source: "from earth to moon" J. Vernes; Cyrano de Bergerac.
only surviving member of the earth-moon ship crew. The rocket crashed on the moon a few years ago; Barbicane and Ardan were killed during the crash but Nicholl was saved by a colony of aliens installed on the hidden face of the moon (the same selenites encountered by cyrano de Bergerac duing the XVIIe). they "rebuilt" Nicholl and granted him their ability to "ride moonlight". can teleport and become desolid.



As a personal note, i'm not very pleased of some of the results. the characters are maybe too different from their inspirations. BTW, i don't think we'll eve have the time to make it.

[Kevin Scrivner]

Digory Kirke (bonus question: Who recognizes this name?)

---

If you're letting Kirke into the game, why not his old nemesis, Jadis of Charn, Queen of Narnia? Nothing like an extradimensional tyrant with minions from classical mythology to shake up those smug Edwardian rationalists.

[Seraphim]

still need help to get manfriday in there

[keithcurtis]

Originally posted by Seraphim
still need help to get manfriday in there

Man Friday accompanied Crusoe on an expedition to the Americas, drank from the Fountain of Youth and became immortal? (Regeneration + Ressurection Adder)

Knowing the secret location would make a good reason for him to be hunted.

Keith "Mr. Helpy-Guy" Curtis

[Twilight]

Originally posted by Kevin Scrivner
Digory Kirke (bonus question: Who recognizes this name?)

---

If you're letting Kirke into the game, why not his old nemesis, Jadis of Charn, Queen of Narnia? Nothing like an extradimensional tyrant with minions from classical mythology to shake up those smug Edwardian rationalists.

Wasn't Kirke the one who liked Jadis and kept calling her a "dem fine girl"? I mean it has been awhile since I've read the Narnia books, but I was under the impression that Jadis would've never left Charn if it hadn't been for him.

[Kevin Scrivner]

Wasn't Kirke the one who liked Jadis and kept calling her a "dem fine girl"? I mean it has been awhile since I've read the Narnia books, but I was under the impression that Jadis would've never left Charn if it hadn't been for him.

---

Actually, it was Digory's unscrupulous uncle, a would-be magician, who had a crush on Jadis. He's the one who sent Digory and friend Polly hurtling through alternate dimensions. For her part, Jadis loved only one thing, herself, and saw Uncle Andrew's experiments as means to conquer yet another world for her amusement.

[Twilight]

Actually, it was Digory's unscrupulous uncle, a would-be magician, who had a crush on Jadis. He's the one who sent Digory and friend Polly hurtling through alternate dimensions. For her part, Jadis loved only one thing, herself, and saw Uncle Andrew's experiments as means to conquer yet another world for her amusement. [/B][/QUOTE]

Oh that's right, like I said it's been a long time since I last read the Narnia books. Obviously I should make a point of reading them again. However, my point about Digory being responsible for Jadis escaping is true, since he's the one who rang the bell that let her go. I distinctly remember that.

[keithcurtis]

Back onto the LXG topic: anyone catch issue six? Sheesh! Where do we go from here!?!?!

Keith "No Spoilers" Curtis

["V"]

Where indeed?

"The humans died of martians..." Nice line.

I'd spotted/guessed what type of hybrid Moreau was providing, especially given the source material for the invaders, but nonetheless I loved Nemo's reaction to the whole thing.

Is it just me or does Alan Moore seem cynical/suspicious of authority figures?

V

[GenreFiend]

Originally posted by "V"
Where indeed?


Is it just me or does Alan Moore seem cynical/suspicious of authority figures?

V
NAW!! Really? Ya THINK!?:rolleyes:
Sorry, sarcasm off, now.

["V"]

(Yes I know, it was irony :) )

[Pattern Ghost]

A place to look for setting inspiration might be Space 1889. I think it's back in print now. Has some decent stuff for a Victorian feel as far as worldbuilding goes.

[Seraphim]

Well the only logical thing for moore to do know is go backwards.

He already hinted at doing o prequel using gullivers men, and thn he could even use prosperos me.

[Seraphim]

I like the idea of fountain of youth as i have used it in my other campaign.

I do have a new problem though after crowley who can I have as a criminal mastermind, I dont want fanchu, or the martians, or moriarty. I want someone who can give the team a run for their money, is a great literary figure, and I can span at least three sessions in an adventure with.

The only bad guy I can come up with is Dr Moreau.

Any ideas???:rolleyes:

[keithcurtis]

Nemo would make a good villain, if you are not following LXG continuity. He sinks ships.

Jack the Ripper. What if the Whitechappel Killer was sacrificing victims in some mystical power ceremony?

Any of the villains of history could have gotten control of (or at least a ride on) the Time Traveller's machine.

Keith "idea man" Curtis

[Sociotard]

From "The most dangerous game" General Zaroff. A man as intelligent as he would make an excellent mastermind. I think the story was actually set in the '20s, but a little GM fiat takes care of that.

From Edgar Allan Poes "Cask of Amontillado": Montressor. Have any of your characters severly p!$$ed off any itallian gentelmen recently? This one thinks ahead.

From Charles Dickens "Great Expectations" : Estella. Any gentlemen in the group? This is a manipulative one. I say she just got more and more evil as she got older. Think lex luthor with catwomans motivations.

From "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson: The entire town. Not masterminds, but one great encounter.

[GenreFiend]

Originally posted by Seraphim
I like the idea of fountain of youth as i have used it in my other campaign.

I do have a new problem though after crowley who can I have as a criminal mastermind, I dont want fanchu, or the martians, or moriarty. I want someone who can give the team a run for their money, is a great literary figure, and I can span at least three sessions in an adventure with.

The only bad guy I can come up with is Dr Moreau.

Any ideas???:rolleyes:

Dracula, Cthullhu, Baron Dr. Victor Von Frankenstein and/or his creation, Dr. Calligari (sp?). What year is it in your campaign?

[Kevin Scrivner]

Oh well, there are others.

Fantomas -- more faces than Lon Chaney, more lives than a cat. French master of disguise and gangster who terrorized the nation before World War I. French series of novels but the first few are available in English. He had a mistress who had seen his true face but she didn't last long. Can the PCs ever be sure they REALLY got him?

Count Fosco -- From "The Woman In White" by Wilkie Collins, protege of Charles Dickens and inventor of the modern detective novel. Fosco (not his real name, not a real nobleman) was a corpulent Italian spymaster, hypnotist, and chemistry genius who fled to England in the 1850s both to line his pocketbook and pursue his latest espionage assignment. Accompanied by zombie-like wife who dotes on him and does dirty jobs for him. Also has a couple thugs from his spy ring handy. Major weakness -- he's hunted by the Brotherhood, an Italian political secret society he betrayed decades ago. He's changed quite a bit since then, so they may not identify him right away even if they spot him.

John D. Rockerfeller -- the oil magnate, pre-World War I. Could be a powerful patron OR a ruthless enemy. Rockerfeller didn't have many scruples, so he could easily begin as a friend and become a vicious foe when the PCs don't go along with his schemes.

[grymlocke]

Lorna Doone? (ok, its a cookie...but who was it named after?)
Manfred Von Richtoven? (red baron survived being shot and ditching his plane...)
Eddie Richenbacker? (american ace...the barons rival)
Lodge? ( can't remember first name...also discovered magnetic waves, hertz published first...hurtz as rival)

[Seraphim]

Ok, I cant have Jack the ripper he has been used .

Woul like to know more about that town that someone mentioned.

Doolittle in the group has decided that for our last campaign he will be the bad guy a la invisible man.

Nemo is dead in my campaign.

It is set in 1899

And I am toying around with captain hook being the ba guy.

[altamaros]

Originally posted by Seraphim
Ok, I cant have Jack the ripper he has been used .

Woul like to know more about that town that someone mentioned.

Doolittle in the group has decided that for our last campaign he will be the bad guy a la invisible man.

Nemo is dead in my campaign.

It is set in 1899

And I am toying around with captain hook being the ba guy.

by town, i guess you're refering to the lottery : The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (1948) (http://mbhs.bergtraum.k12.ny.us/cybereng/shorts/lotry.html)

in 1899, Mata-Hari is 23 years old also.

You can also take the story of "the horla" by Guy de Maupassant and make the horla a true incubus
(the horla (extract) (http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/horlaX4.htm)

Depending on the level of supernatural in your campaign, you could also take Gaston Leroux's "Phantom of the Opera"
(the full book is easy to find in text version on the net)


And it was true. For several months, there had been nothing discussed at the Opera but this ghost in dress-clothes who stalked about the building, from top to bottom, like a shadow, who spoke to nobody, to whom nobody dared speak and who vanished as soon as he was seen, no one knowing how or where. As became a real ghost, he made no noise in walking.( ... )
"He is extraordinarily thin and his dress-coat hangs on a skeleton frame.
His eyes are so deep that you can hardly see the fixed pupils.
You just see two big black holes, as in a dead man's skull.
His skin, which is stretched across his bones like a drumhead,
is not white, but a nasty yellow. His nose is so little worth
talking about that you can't see it side-face; and THE ABSENCE
of that nose is a horrible thing TO LOOK AT. All the hair he
has is three or four long dark locks on his forehead and behind his ears."

[Doc Democracy]

Originally posted by Seraphim
And I am toying around with captain hook being the ba guy.

Did you come up with anything. I am just about to run a steampunk game for my group - almost all non-comics readers and so am using the War of the Worlds story from the second book as a base for their first adventure.

I'm planning on a Pirate story for the second. I just think that Iron John Roberts sailing the seas on a steampunk'ed pirate ship would be a fantastic tale for my Union of Astounding Companions.

[Badger]

I cant remember the author of the play (it was around Shakespeare's time though) but it was the one about Dr. Faust the one who sold his soul, etc. You can could have him returning to this plane on a mission for "the Evil One". I havent read the play since high school so I cant give many details about him. Maybe you could have him at the head of a secret criminal empire. And have them learn more about this mysterious leader of the criminal empire and his "true" intentions as things go. A mission like launching the start of the end times (hey he is working for the EVIL one after all) of Revelation.

[Celt]

Originally posted by Badger
I cant remember the author of the play (it was around Shakespeare's time though) but it was the one about Dr. Faust the one who sold his soul, etc.

That would be Christopher Marlowe (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/faustus.html).

[Badger]

Thanks, it was driving me crazy that I couldnt think of the name:o :confused:

[PhantomGM6101]

Originally posted by keithcurtis
Back onto the LXG topic: anyone catch issue six? Sheesh! Where do we go from here!?!?!

Keith "No Spoilers" Curtis
How about setting an LXG rpg during the WWII
with the Following characters:
INDIANA JONES:adventurer and archeologist
FRANK & JOE HARDY:young soldiers and amatuer detectives
NANCY DREW:detective and socialite
CLARK SAVAGE JR.:man of bronze and Ms Drew's mentor
RICHARD WENTWORTH:The Spider and sponser to one:
PFC TOM SWIFT JR.:Inventor and adventurer
JEFFREY KING AKA ROCKETMAN:inventor and patriot
LT TRIXIE BELDIN: student to millionare philantrophist
LAMONT CRANSTON AKA "THE SHADOW":pulp hero
LT GEORGIA FAYNE:best friend to Nancy Drew
any one of these literaly 'heroes' [with the exception of DR JONES} can be inserted into the LXG campaign.:cool:

[keithcurtis]

Interesting, but few, if any, of those characters are in the public domain.

Keith "Just have to wait, I suppose..." Curtis

[Crimson Arrow]

Well...I understand that the quote on the back cover of issue 6 of volume 2 was from "Dracula", so perhaps the Count returns and Allan has to unite a band of vampire hunters to rescue Mina. Maybe this time she actually becomes a vampire. Allan might have to make a tragic choice if Mina is in Dracula's thrall.

That's all pure hypothesis, of course. :)

Sherlock Holmes might finally show his face (it is reasonable to think he survived in the League's world). The Fu Manchu character (he was never named, I assume for copyright reasons) was still at liberty at the end of volume 1. Perhaps Holmes needs help from Mina and Allan, as he knows they have had success against the evil Doctor before.

[Seraphim]

I am sure that I read an interview with alan moore in wizard somewhere (will have to look it up for details) that he is going to try to work with Dr. Syn and Gulliver.

I would like to see myself a volume 3 of the current League but with two dead he would need replacements.

Maybe the french league as written in the back of the comics.

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As I play this setting in three week bursts every other three weeks.
My first adventures in the LXG setting went grand, after killing Baron Munchausen, crippling van Helsing, and banishing Peter Pan to Hell. It was fantastic Aleister Crowley as bad guy was great.

I have the group on their toes, I have a player wanting to be an evil mastermind. It was so fun.


Ok for my next adventure, things I am toying with. Dr. Doolittle the player character wants to send a mind drugged wendy darling into hell to report back on how peter pan is and what these strange creatures Daemons are actually.
I am toying with Dr. Yen How from the book the yellow danger as the criminal mastermind who is trying to set a war between Europe and England (Maybe using the Denkotei a submarine to retrieve the Nuclear reactor engine from a certain Nautilus which is laying on the bottom of the Indian Ocean.) But that will be the last part of my three week adventure.

Each week is a different case. So the third week would be the last battle with Yen How. Or the case of the Yellow Danger.
But i need minor non-demon, antagonists for the first two weeks. I am setting the next adventure in 1900 in June.
I also need these antagonists to somehow relate or able to further along the Yen How plot.

[Vondy]

Originally posted by Crimson Arrow
Well...I understand that the quote on the back cover of issue 6 of volume 2 was from "Dracula", so perhaps the Count returns and Allan has to unite a band of vampire hunters to rescue Mina. Maybe this time she actually becomes a vampire. Allan might have to make a tragic choice if Mina is in Dracula's thrall.



I just re-read dracula and mina harker might not need saving, especially if she were alive in more modern times. She was quite capable, and the only reason she didn't join them in going after the count was the social convention of the day.

The reason I just re-read dracula is this: my wife finally decided she was willing to give gaming a shot and the character idea she had was:

Mina Harker, Vampire Hunter (modern day - she has some odd powers and lims due to her almost shift to vampirism)

[Crimson Arrow]

I meant Mina might need saving if she fell under Dracula's influence again. If her will is not her own, it doesn't really matter if she is capable or not.

I agree that Mina was certainly quite tough. Also, both volumes so far have shown that in many respects Mina is the most able member of the League, certainly in terms of "keeping it together" and being determined.

[Vondy]

Originally posted by Crimson Arrow
I meant Mina might need saving if she fell under Dracula's influence again. If her will is not her own, it doesn't really matter if she is capable or not.

I agree that Mina was certainly quite tough. Also, both volumes so far have shown that in many respects Mina is the most able member of the League, certainly in terms of "keeping it together" and being determined.

I see your point.

In the book (Dracula) Van Helsing says that God blessed her with the heart of a woman and the mind of a man - that she was a perfect creature. She also provided the cement that held the hunters together there.

[Pattern Ghost]

Hey, this thread's still active! I'm just now reading King Solomon's Mines. One thing that struck me as funny: In the novel Quartermain repeatedly mentions his small stature, but he was played by Sean Connery in the movie.

[Seraphim]

Ok for my next adventure, things I am toying with. Dr. Doolittle the player character wants to send a mind drugged wendy darling into hell to report back on how peter pan is and what these strange creatures Daemons are actually.
I am toying with Dr. Yen How from the book the yellow danger as the criminal mastermind who is trying to set a war between Europe and England (Maybe using the Denkotei a submarine to retrieve the Nuclear reactor engine from a certain Nautilus which is laying on the bottom of the Indian Ocean.) But that will be the last part of my three week adventure.

Each week is a different case. So the third week would be the last battle with Yen How. Or the case of the Yellow Danger.
But i need minor non-demon, antagonists for the first two weeks. I am setting the next adventure in 1900 in June.
I also need these antagonists to somehow relate or able to further along the Yen How plot.

Please help me

[The Pulpinator]

I like historical figures. As for an historical villain my favorite would be The Mad Baron who thought he was the reincarnation of Ghengis Khan. (more details available upon request)