Vancouver Fall 2012: Role-playing FTW
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jamesqI went to Port Moody to run my WWII Supers game with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
garething and SW. othelianna watched and played an HPC (historical player character).
Quick background: in 1938, separate German, American and British expeditions to Skull Island find a crashed space ship containing magical give-people-super-powers juice. Now World War II is starting, but with the addition of super heros and super villains. Think Captain America but multiplied by a thousand and you've got an idea of the vibe I'm going for.
Our hero Jacob is an American Jew from Brooklyn; he's a powerful telekinetic limited to touch range. His partner is Edda (codename: Danser), a young Dutch resistance fighter; She's also one of the fastest/most agile people in existence. Their mission? Rescue the Dutch Royal Family from house arrest in Huis ten Bosch.
Aside: in the real world, the Dutch royals escaped prior to the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands.
One of the nice things about super-hero gaming in a setting that doesn't normally have many super-heros? Whenever I want a bad guy, I just use an existing comic-book character and give them German code names. Our heros ended up battling SS-Untersturmführer Gerard Ott (codename Wildekinde) and SS-Obersturmführer Raimund Peiser (codename Winzig). They almost had to fight two more, but a good plan managed to split their forces.
Incidentally, those were the only super-soldiers in Holland, the rest were busy on other fronts.
Jacob defeated Wildekinde by flying him up at high speed and then letting him go. They then gathered up the family and flew them over the channel to Britain in a car carried by Jacob's TK. While over the channel, Winzig appeared (he was shrunk before) and tried to take Princess Julianna (whom R was playing) hostage. Edda proceeded (after some failed roles) to slap the bejeebus out of him and his testicles. Then Jacob threw him into the north sea. Note that in true comic-book fashion, we have not seen a body for either villain.
They landed the car in Ipswitch and turned the royals over to the civilian authorities.
Following the game,garething, othelianna and I went to Lionsgate tavern. It was a tavern like Montengarde has, but more expensive, with better food and no booze. Nice, but not noteworthy. I felt awkward in that way I do when surrounded by strangers that I should be socializing with but have no clue how to do so.
garething and SW. othelianna watched and played an HPC (historical player character).Quick background: in 1938, separate German, American and British expeditions to Skull Island find a crashed space ship containing magical give-people-super-powers juice. Now World War II is starting, but with the addition of super heros and super villains. Think Captain America but multiplied by a thousand and you've got an idea of the vibe I'm going for.
Our hero Jacob is an American Jew from Brooklyn; he's a powerful telekinetic limited to touch range. His partner is Edda (codename: Danser), a young Dutch resistance fighter; She's also one of the fastest/most agile people in existence. Their mission? Rescue the Dutch Royal Family from house arrest in Huis ten Bosch.
Aside: in the real world, the Dutch royals escaped prior to the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands.
One of the nice things about super-hero gaming in a setting that doesn't normally have many super-heros? Whenever I want a bad guy, I just use an existing comic-book character and give them German code names. Our heros ended up battling SS-Untersturmführer Gerard Ott (codename Wildekinde) and SS-Obersturmführer Raimund Peiser (codename Winzig). They almost had to fight two more, but a good plan managed to split their forces.
Incidentally, those were the only super-soldiers in Holland, the rest were busy on other fronts.
Jacob defeated Wildekinde by flying him up at high speed and then letting him go. They then gathered up the family and flew them over the channel to Britain in a car carried by Jacob's TK. While over the channel, Winzig appeared (he was shrunk before) and tried to take Princess Julianna (whom R was playing) hostage. Edda proceeded (after some failed roles) to slap the bejeebus out of him and his testicles. Then Jacob threw him into the north sea. Note that in true comic-book fashion, we have not seen a body for either villain.
They landed the car in Ipswitch and turned the royals over to the civilian authorities.
Following the game,
garething, othelianna and I went to Lionsgate tavern. It was a tavern like Montengarde has, but more expensive, with better food and no booze. Nice, but not noteworthy. I felt awkward in that way I do when surrounded by strangers that I should be socializing with but have no clue how to do so.
