Centennial City setting

[The Vanguard]

HI I need help with my Centennial City setting?, it's an Sliver Age timeframe.

[Sketchpad]

What kind of help are you looking for?

[excelsior]

What kind of help are you looking for?

[GamePhil]

One thing I'd suggest is picking up Omlevex. It's a silver age setting, and while it is primarily for M&M it has Hero stats for all the characters (written by our own Ben and Darren, if I'm remembering right). I like the concept, which included writing the history of the comic book company that put out that published the world, including "real" world events that influenced the characters. There's also a section on playing Silver Age style games.

Beyond that, I have to agree with the others: what specific help do you need?

[The Vanguard]

Well I do have Omlevex and it has helped me with the Silver Age flavor, but I need help with the background, history and layout of Centennial City.

[GamePhil]

Good. Any campaign can be improved by dropping Man Cactus into it.

Well, any superhero campaign, anyway.

Do you have any notes on the history and such? Just to give us a starting point. Some specific game elements you might consider developing:

The Next Generation: The Silver Age had a number of heroes (including the Flash and Green Lantern) who were similar to a Golden Age counterpart but different people. Characters that were still the same (including Superman and Batman) were still changed in various ways from what they were previously.

Aliens: You couldn't swing a comatose Gropnik without hitting an alien invader of some sort. Even with no actual invader in the room, you might get a friendly.

Physics? What's that?: The laws of nature were much more commonly ignored than they are in modern books. Not that it's a lot different later on, but the pseudoscience tended to be much less well researched.

Family of Explorers: Groups of good friends stick their noses into strange situations. Frequently, a scientist, a brawler, a girl, and a kid. Most famous such group is the Fantastic Four.

Misfits Of Science: This is the era that gave us the X-Men and the Doom Patrol as well as the FF.

Consistency and Continuity Optional: The insistence on these concepts was not as prevalent back then, though they still happened.