[SotC] Hadrian Helm and Johnny Stripes vs. the Evil Earth
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The fiery spectre of Johnny Century has been seen all over the world. What could the founder of the Century Club be trying to tell his brothers and sisters of fist, mystery and science? You are in the local chapterhouse when the fire starts and you see the ghost of Johnny Century stalking from room to room, howling like a banshee.
"This chapter house is disbanded. I revoke its charter with my hellfire!"
It wasn't long before out intrepid heroes discovered that this wasn't Johnny Century at all but his evil twin from another dimension, Johnny Hellfire, founder of the world dominating Hellfire Club.
Where the Century Club seeks to further justice and do right on the Earth, the Hellfire Club rules its mirrored Earth with iron fists of science and mystery.
Man, did we have fun with this.
It was such a fun mouthwash, rinsing out the moral grays and tortured decisions of other games for two-fisted shenanigans.
We had a sword vs. mace fight, the duel between the Quantum Pistol and the Nova Pistol, Johnny Star's smooth talking scraping away at the resolve of Johnny Stripes while Stripes let his fists do the talking and the words were winning, I tell ya. Though Stars certainly took his share of lumps.
Star's Jet-car vs. Helm's Jet-pack in a dog-fight through London while Hadrian Helle and Stripes duked it out at the tomb of British Science-Hero Big Ben (don't worry, kids, Big Ben's only dead in the Evil Dimension!) and it was a good time.
I'll post the PC's aspects later.
For tonight, just know a fun time was had, the world is safe.
For now...
Oh, and Johnny Stripes talked the Evil Queen of England into coming home with him.
Dictionary of Mu site: Pulp Fantasy Sorcerer with Blood, Demons and Hope
ENnie Nominee 2007 for Best Writing and Product of the Year
Winner: Indie RPG Supplement of the Year
Re: [SotC] Hadrian Helm and Johnny Stripes vs. the Evil Earth
I play Hadrian Helm.... uh... this guy:
And boy was it cool. My alien princess got kidnapped (that's Princess Alura in the background.... awwww...she is so cute.). I got to fight my evil mirror twin, matching my starmetal sword and jetpack vs. his starmetal morningstar and jetpack. Used the chase rules, as Paka said.
SotC has very nice chase rules. The combats were nice, visceral and visual to me. Despite us being new to the system, and the very normal speedbumps to a first game, it still cooked with gas.
Paka did a great job with creating a mirror, mirror world for us to react to. The Church of Hellfire was a particularly inspired touch.
Re: [SotC] Hadrian Helm and Johnny Stripes vs. the Evil Earth
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Originally Posted by iago
Hot. Damn.
I want to talk about system stuff but I don't have time to give it a full go at the moment.
Giving scenes and sets aspects to tag were really nifty. That is a feature I really enjoyed and were used to solid effect.
Bribing players to allow their Aspects to make their lives difficult and bring on the adventure was fantastic. From kidnapping a princess to another world to having fire surround the Queen of England, it all worked to bring the characters right into the otherwise sketchy premise.
I also really liked having an initial pitch, looking at the players' Aspects and crafting the rest of the adventure based on that.
If this had been two different characters, it would have been an entirely different adventure but with the Embodiment of U.S. Jockhood and the Man Caught Between 2 Worlds, dimensional madness was the way to go.
Dictionary of Mu site: Pulp Fantasy Sorcerer with Blood, Demons and Hope
ENnie Nominee 2007 for Best Writing and Product of the Year
Winner: Indie RPG Supplement of the Year
Dictionary of Mu site: Pulp Fantasy Sorcerer with Blood, Demons and Hope
ENnie Nominee 2007 for Best Writing and Product of the Year
Winner: Indie RPG Supplement of the Year
Re: [SotC] Hadrian Helm and Johnny Stripes vs. the Evil Earth
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Originally Posted by AJFixer
Storn, that rocks. Two of my favorite pulp/super heroes are Adam Strange and John Carter. That's a beautiful melding of the two.
I want you to ply in my game when I start it so you can draw groovy pictures of the PCs. Care to move to Columbus, OH?
Oh, and Paka, I want you in my game just on general principles. You can room with Storn.
I've already lived there. I went to Columbus College of Art and Design. I appreciate the thought.
I met a great gaming group there, most of which eventually migrated up to the Ann Arbor region. Now I'm in Ithaca.
Hadrian Helm is very, very much inspired by Adam Strange, although I was also influenced by a pulp novella I read in recent Black Gate Magazine #9 called " The Fifth Dimension Catapult" by Murray Leinster.... originally published in Astounding Stories of Super Science, Jan 1931 (I don't have that memorized, I happen to have the issue in front of me).
And I was very influenced by Flash Gordon at an early age, which is soooo much the father of Adam Strange. And I read the ERB Mars stuff as well. So we are all dipping into the same well.
The odd thing is that illo was done for Hero 5th Edition supplement as a follow up to another illo of the same two characters I had done for the main rule book. I cannot find the Main rule book original anywhere. Really annoying, or I would share that one too. It is of the two of them, aerial combat with a giant aerial manta ray. Its a fun illo.
Re: [SotC] Hadrian Helm and Johnny Stripes vs. the Evil Earth
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Originally Posted by Storn
Hadrian Helm is very, very much inspired by Adam Strange, although I was also influenced by a pulp novella I read in recent Black Gate Magazine #9 called " The Fifth Dimension Catapult" by Murray Leinster.... originally published in Astounding Stories of Super Science, Jan 1931 (I don't have that memorized, I happen to have the issue in front of me).
Dictionary of Mu site: Pulp Fantasy Sorcerer with Blood, Demons and Hope
ENnie Nominee 2007 for Best Writing and Product of the Year
Winner: Indie RPG Supplement of the Year
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