nexus Posted July 23, 2005 Report Share Posted July 23, 2005 PLAYERS PLEASE STAY OUT! After reading DC:TAS I came up with this bare bones outline for a possible campaign and I wanted to get a bit of feedback on it.. The style is Hudson City Knights with relatively low powered "trained normals" as PCs and villains and takes place in Hudson city. For the last few years, the city has been an upsurge in costumed criminals the likes of Penny Dreadful, Beatlemania, etc. The one unifying factor is an obsession to a theme or twisted "reason" for their bizarre behavior. The connection is Dr. Enigma. He's been running experiments on the nature of reality and how perception can alter it. The good doctor has been doping the city's water supply with psychoactive chemicals and playing headgames with psychiatric patients with assistance of a deranged physician at Toddbury Asylum, arranging "origins" for some villains directly (such as copycat). Other's like Penny Dreadful are the result of accidental exposure to his experimental chemicals which trigger psychological changes in minds under some form extreme emotional stimulation, creating an obession about whatever that stimulus is. These "experiments'" have been going on for years, but have just now started to reach a head. The twist is, there is the possibility the PCs are the product of Enigma's dabbling as well. After all, many heroes exhibit some of ther same obessive compulsive drives tne villains do Will they want to be "cured" if this is true? Opinion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexus Posted July 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Re: The Chemistry of Obsession: A DC: TAS campaign idea Any comments? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zed-F Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Re: The Chemistry of Obsession: A DC: TAS campaign idea Sounds like an interesting campaign premise to me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baphomet Jones Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Re: The Chemistry of Obsession: A DC: TAS campaign idea I love it!! Finally the theme bad guys I've always enjoyed make perfect sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Re: The Chemistry of Obsession: A DC: TAS campaign idea Sounds good. Your theme seems inherent in the set-up and it is a good one for DC, or DC: TAS. An interesting dilemma is what the characters do once they learn their actions ARE a psychosis developed from the horrific mechinations of Dr. Enigma (albeit accidental). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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