Quote from: Matt;806116Maybe it's just me but I don't care for a setting with a timeline laying out histories and predecessor heroes, even if it's cool stuff, as I know my group and I will never use it as we like to build from scratch. Too many assumptions about the world for us to use it. Like: what if we want to play as the first-ever super heroes?

I like building from scratch but having a known history can be quite evocative. Something I loved about City of Heroes were all the enormous statues to heroes past... with plaques telling of their deeds and downfalls... melancholy tales of great sacrifice. For whatever reason it fired us up and had us feeling we were part of a larger tradition... it established the mindset.
I'd rather build my own setting but I'd still be inclined to have that 'those who went before us' element... though I suppose that would generate itself in a longer campaign.

I totally understand where you are coming from, which is why I have taken the published/unpublished scenarios, and created a world. But I have tried to create a canvas you can adapt and mould it to your needs.


I love history, I like the idea of games with a sense of history, so that a hero in 2014 can find the lost Star-rod of a fallen hero of the 1950s. In fact I enjoy this so much, I have been running a shared universe campaign. Using various teams. Over a 200 year period.
There is one character who was used in a 5 part campaign, jumping through time, that was 2013. I ran another adventure set in 1954. Telling some of his back story, this year and next year he gets to go to Crimea.

This is not set in stone take the bits you like, dump the chaff.

Ah, see, if the history were something my group created I would revel in it as well. But reading abou someone else's campaign history, not so much. But keep up posted on what you come up with--if there are scenarios/adventures and other material for use with Golden Heroes it may still be worthwhile for me. As long as it's not deeply connected to an assumed past and heritage.

And in any case, I'm happy to hear others are keeping GH alive!

Forth scenario announced.

This is the set up for the potential forth scenario. It is set in both England and the Town of Deadwood, in the US

The Siege of Deadwood.*The date is 30 June 1865.

For various reasons you find yourself sitting in the saloon in the town of Deadwood.

Suddenly there is a scream and woman runs in the bar and screams "Chinatown is burning". Everyone runs out.*

Before you can leave a filthy looking Hick stops you, "Boss, youse the law, cause i needs me a law man, eyes gotta showns you somit Boss, come with me afor they come back from chinatown town"

despite any protests you have he leads you all round the back of the Bar to a small barn, in side he shuts the door and locks it, then he lights a lantern and illuminates the barn. which is bare except for a table with a blood stained white cloth covering something.

" see what i found"

he pulls of the sheet, revealing a human boy with feather stumps on his back where wings once were. the wings are under him.

"i found me an Angel"

His eyes milk over and a blank expression clouds his face, he speaks.

"oh...yes master, now master..very well"

The hick raises his hand and from nowhere he produces a ornate knife and slices off his left hand at the wrist.

blood poor's from his wrist like water from a tap, all the blood gathers in the dirt and dust of the barn floor, where something takes shape a horned creature made of blood raises up and speaks.

"Tell me mortal. what do you dream of at night, when the demons come" he laughs in a demonic way. " so it begins" there is an ripping sound and the earth shakes.

outside a dome of shadow is raising up over the whole town. "welcome to hell..."

Saddle up partner it gonna be a long night.

The game begins just after the Creature speaks.

Now I kinda wanna persuade my players to try Golden Heroes. Set in Britain in the mid-'80s.'That would be awesome. Except I can't even do a bad British dialect to save my life.

Have the team a US team, on secondment,  with a CIA liason.  That will reduce the need for accents

Quote from: kevinrolfe;807077Have the team a US team, on secondment,  with a CIA liason.  That will reduce the need for accents

NPCs don't speak?

In any case, I loathe the "government-sponsored super hero/team."

Besides, a large part of the fun of Golden Heroes is all the British goofiness!

NPCS do speak but the liason is an American.

Another snippet

"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
―*Alan Moore,*V for Vendetta

*Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY."*--Goering at the Nuremberg Trials


In 1909 an attempt was made to properly regulate those individuals who fell into the heroes category, and so the Hero Act of 1909 was created. The Act took at its heart the ideas of Galton and his Eugenics theory as, at that time Iolos manuscript had not been seen by many, or enough to understand is significance. The act required two forms of registration, the official sanction and the special sanction status, the latter is for Heroes assigned to the SAS, MI5, MI6 or as part of Shadow V the Royal Bodyguard. The Act was forgotten about after a couple of attempts to enact it, then came a global war, a depression ad a second war and the act was mothballed. The 1909 act is not the basis for the official sanctioning of teams, that comes under the royal charter that set up the Night-Watchmen back in 1799.

The Royal Charter of 1799, set up the notion of Sanctioned heroes, it is quite simplistic,  sanctioned heroes must give thier real name and address, this is due to the salary paid by the Government, and needing some way to identify who to pay. This is more a gentleman agreement, a handshake. It has been enshrined in law for over 100 years. And not seen as wrong, that was until the revelations of Edward Snowdon, people began to question the roll of the government.

The 1909 act goes one step further, written after the heroes reaction to the Boer war, the Government at the time wanted a simply way to control the PCs. The act ensures the Heroes are registered, not just the Sanctioned ones but any person with Extra-normal abilitys. fForbes-Bryson's amendments make the act much tougher.

The Americans have been trying to enact a kind of registration for known Extra-normal humans, since the H.U.A.C, they managed to get legislation into the homeland security act, post 911. This follows a simular model to the UK'S Sanctioning however it is license based and requires special insurances,  which tend to be prohibit the less well off Hero.

Quote from: Simlasa;806129I like building from scratch but having a known history can be quite evocative. Something I loved about City of Heroes were all the enormous statues to heroes past... with plaques telling of their deeds and downfalls... melancholy tales of great sacrifice. For whatever reason it fired us up and had us feeling we were part of a larger tradition... it established the mindset.
I'd rather build my own setting but I'd still be inclined to have that 'those who went before us' element... though I suppose that would generate itself in a longer campaign.

Ahhhh, CoH, how I miss thee...

The Singularity bomb is a scenario I have run with Simon Burley at a convention. There are two tables and two games a certain points players from one table get pulled into another dimension and dumped on to the other table. This goes on until they workout what hey have to do to stop the end of the world. This is a background snippet of what the Singularity bomb is.
The Manhattan Project
On 16 July 1945, the first atomic bomb was exploded near Alamagordo, New Mexico. The heralded in the Atomic Age.

The American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the laboratory at Los Alamos where it had been built, who witnessed it, said later:*'I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.'

Oppenheimer was in fact slightly misquoting the epic Hindu poem. In the dialogue between the Kshatriya prince Arjuna and his divine charioteer Krishna, the god says:

I am all-powerful Time which destroys all things, and I have come here to slay these men. Even if thou doest not fight, all the warriors facing thee shall die.

Arjuna was talking about the Brahmanda Astra* though sometimes it is called the Singularity bomb, unlike the Brahmastra or the Brahmashirsha Astra which were used at Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa. creating the Lonar crater, and the radiation which can be found on bones in the area.

The Singularity bomb has not been used, the device has the power to collapse the multiverse in to a single reality. Arjuna a prince of the Kshatriya is weakened by the multiverse , he believes there are too many copys of himself, at first he sort to kill these Dopplegangers, as he saw them, however this proved fruitless, so he made a pact with two others, from the Eagleverse, Kestrelverse and the Ospreyverse, to help create the Singularity bomb. But they failed, that was until the discovery of the collapsing timeline, an anomaly had created a temporary timeline from the Eagleverse, (see Shadow V) from this timeline came hope, the Singularity bomb might just work. And the Magestry, the collective of the three now four Arjuna (the last from the collapsing timeline) are trapped in a cycle, a time loop forever to play out every possible scenario, in an attempt to collapse the multiverse.

Oppenheimer, in reciting from the Bhagavad Gita, pulled Arjuna from his astral real into the real world, beginning the cycle.

The Brahmanda Astra*was broken down into three elements, science, magic, faith, in to hope it would not be used.

Science - the black stone
Magic - the Benben stone
Faith - the contents of Ark of the Covanent*

If these elements are brought together, from and in the same universe the Singularity bomb, can be used to collapse the multiverse.

Japanese supersoldier program

Banned since ww2 from having any kind of army, the Japanese only had a defence force, with limited resources, therefore there was no sanctioned supersoldier program, however, the private sector has been working on a supersoldier program, only instead of a suit of power Armour or a biological option, they are working of massive "Mecha", they are also throwing lizards into the Fukushima reactor...just in case.


Russian supersoldier programs

The Russians have had a series of power Armour which the west has knicknamed Boris. However there are a number of suits which fall into this category


Hybrid project - From the early 20's the Soviets were working on a supersoldier programs, first with the idea that a super Ape could be created, a hybrid human/chimp. Dr Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov worked in Africa in the late 1920s trying to create a monkey/human hybrid, *whilst officially unsuccessful, *there are rumours of a city of intelligent Apes living in Africa, it is also likely that through his research Ivanov, accidentally created HIV.*

Oborski MK1 to MK5 - Soviet era power armour, crude and big lumbering siuts. After Starlin canceled the hybrid program, the military turned to an engineer to called Professor Orlok Oborski* to create a suit of power Armour, and so the Oborski MK1 was born. The power armour program was thrown in the long grass in favor of the space program

Dyatlov - there was another attempt at a biological supersoilder program, but this ended after the tragedy that became known as the Dyatlov Pass incident. The research from that time is currently with Dr Grinsky Oborski, who, rumur has it, has made some of Miebachs research work. Time will tell. Offical Dr Oborski is head of the Russian Olympic medical staff.Theremin a Russian Cold Warrior, is thought to be from this program.

IVAN NKV MK1 to MK3 - the current power armour program restarted in the 90's, and culminating in the IVAN NKV. *The MK3 is still in use today.


*Dr Grinsky Oborski appears in Crossfire, is his grandson..

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