Re: Champions games you've run
I'm surprised when I think of it, but it's only two games.
Vanguard
When the worlds premier heroes proved unreliable, the organization charged with protecting the world FROM paranormals formed their own group. Vanguard was formed in the City of Brotherly love. Central to the East Coast, but outside the hot zones of NY and DC, Philadelphia needed a little organized hero help. After some early success, they were called into a growing international crisis, which lead to a meeting in the middle east with that 'unreliable' group. Forced together by the crisis, they raced around the globe fighting one catastrophe after another, the world in the balance.
--A long time ago when I was introduced to Champions ... early 80's for sure, I ran in a shared universe with my friend Keith. The world's Premiere Hero's were the Texas Rangers, who didn't get along well with authority. My game was Vanguard. The high-light of the campaign was the 'Mass Run' or crossover game, when both teams got together one hot summer weekend and saved the world together.
-- There were about 20 PC's in that 'mass run'
-- There was a low-light to match the high-light, the last game of the campaign, but that's a story for another time.
Sky High
Based on the movie, it's the next year, and the PC's are the new freshman class. The game started with that first painful day of school, and has finally crawled in that detailed game way to Thanksgiving Day. Holidays seem prone for excitement. Halloween saw visits by Classic monsters, and even the pre-turkey day lunch was interrupted by Giant mechanical Turkeys, and the Ancient Squash God!
-- I started this game over 2 years ago, but it only ran sporadically until this fall. Even now we only average 2 games a month, but it is our regular game.
-- The players are my four children, all boys.
-- About half the games have a special guest star - either an extra friend as a player (we always have a special round of 'power placement'), or an adult friend as a guest villain.
