Updating Bay City

[Mark Rand]

I'm working on updating Bay City from Champions: New Millennium for a play by post campaign.  One thing I've decided that the Champions Headquarters from those books, and the team, is gone, but I'll, probably, keep the sub.  Marvel's Avengers Mansion will serve as the basis for the new headquarters.  Any other ideas?

[TCArknight]

On 5/20/2021 at 4:48 PM, Mark Rand said:

I'm working on updating Bay City from Champions: New Millennium for a play by post campaign.  One thing I've decided that the Champions Headquarters from those books, and the team, is gone, but I'll, probably, keep the sub.  Marvel's Avengers Mansion will serve as the basis for the new headquarters.  Any other ideas?

As someone who is considering updating Bay City for my own game, I'd be interested to see what you had come up with.

[HeroGM]

Avenger's Mansion, Stark Tower. See if you can find a good Arena map for the Wildstrike gatherings.

[Tjack]

The real world inspiration for the artwork for the design of Avengers Mansion back in the ‘60’s was a museum in Manhattan. I don’t remember the name off the top of my head but with some research we could find it.  It’s probably still there if you want photographs.

[Mark Rand]

43 minutes ago, HeroGM said:

Avenger's Mansion, Stark Tower. See if you can find a good Arena map for the Wildstrike gatherings.

I think they're in a cave system.

[Mark Rand]

I think most of the changes would be in the people in various places.

 

There would also be both players' and GMs' maps for the city as well as its various areas.

[Mark Rand]

I might use the map of Champions Headquarters in New Millennium books with some adjustments to what goes in the rooms.  A swimming pool on an upper floor doesn't make sense when right below it are living quarters.  The staff might also get some changes.

[Mark Rand]

The 4E Champions Headquarters could also work as the base for a local team.  It would have to be changed to include a basement.

[name_tamer]

On 5/2/2022 at 6:31 PM, Tjack said:

The real world inspiration for the artwork for the design of Avengers Mansion back in the ‘60’s was a museum in Manhattan. I don’t remember the name off the top of my head but with some research we could find it.  It’s probably still there if you want photographs.

 

Very little research indeed.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay_Frick_House#cite_ref-22

[Tjack]

3 hours ago, name_tamer said:

 

Very little research indeed.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay_Frick_House#cite_ref-22

  My first instinct was the Frick but I kept thinking “ No, that can’t be right.”

[TCArknight]

If you were updating the Bay City timeline, would you move the Proprietor War to a more recent date or would you leave it at the turn of the millenium and have other events take place recently? 

 

Would you include reference to Covid? Perhaps as a side effect of some other event? 

[Mark Rand]

1 hour ago, TCArknight said:

If you were updating the Bay City timeline, would you move the Proprietor War to a more recent date or would you leave it at the turn of the millenium and have other events take place recently? 

 

Would you include reference to Covid? Perhaps as a side effect of some other event? 

I'd leave the Proprietor War where it was.  Yes to COVID, possibly as the result of a lab experiment that went horribly wrong.

[Mark Rand]

There have been a few changes in the Champions' support staff.  Bonnie Knight is now the base technical expert.

 

In the original, Captain Joanna “Jo” Amos of The Guard, who is on very-detached duty, is secretly Quantum, the leader of the Champions.  In this version, her identity recently became public.  Her friend, Captain Dwight Macready, the regional commander of the Bay City/Norcal Region, sometimes calls her in to consult with her.

[Mark Rand]

This is, essentially, the next generation of Bay City. 

 

Since Treasure Island, where Champions Headquarters was set in the Champions: New Millennium books, is actually a thriving neighborhood, Champions Headquarters will have to be relocated, possibly to its own, man-made, island.           

[Mark Rand]

Bay City University would've expanded.  Among other things, there would be a health center, complete with hospitals, clinics, and medical, nursing, dental, pharmacy, and health-related professions schools on one side.

[KawangaKid]

I think you could also look at some changes to the mystical world, like The Pit in McLaren Park might be closed by now, or transformed into something else.

https://sfrecpark.org/716/McLaren-Park

[Mark Rand]

21 hours ago, KawangaKid said:

I think you could also look at some changes to the mystical world, like The Pit in McLaren Park might be closed by now, or transformed into something else.

https://sfrecpark.org/716/McLaren-Park

The pit might also have sporadic  eruptions of various kinds of energy.

[Mark Rand]

I'm working on updating Bay City University.  The California Academy of Sciences isn't going to have the city's only planetarium.  Bay City University will have one, too.  Its staff wear royal blue flight suits and its Zeiss Mark IV planetarium projector rises to the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Edited April 6 by Mark Rand