#swade

Raviv, my wannabe artificer for a SWADE (a TTRPG system) campaign! His old design under the cut, 'cause I don't think I ever posted it

In this setting, the WW2 we know never happened, cos in 1934, the ‘Red Dawn Event’ occurred, where a cosmic aurora gave like 40% of the planet superpowers and things went whacky; ‘The Weird Wars’ is how history looks back at the ten or so years after this period, culminating in the most powerful ‘masks’ being captured in a ‘phantom zone’ style device, and the world started to rebuild afterwards.

Floor 44 is the offices of a local newspaper, ‘The Stalwart’, ran by a millionaire philanthropist who has hired our party (all criminals of varying degrees from the previous campaign, pardoned by their helping the mayor and prominent gangsters against supervillains the night of The RDE) to do… something. But what? I have two options:

1- Robots that mimic the powers of masks, captured in Null Space, have been wreaking havoc across the world, arriving by unknown means. At the same time, prominent vigilantes and villains both are disappearing, only to be found months later, bereft of powers and lobotomized! Any attempts to study these robots results in them exploding, and more and more super-folk are being affected. Unbeknownst to the world at large, Thomas Edison survives as a machine consciousness, kept within a satellite array orbiting the earth, able to pluck out trapped masks from his own Null projector! The Midnight Crew will have to globetrot to track down these dangerous robots, while avoiding, or embroiling, themselves in local tumolt.

2- after the horrors of The Weird Wars, a plan was put in motion to limit the powers of masks medically; referred to as ‘Plan V’, many superpowered folks clamored for a cure, not having wanted powers to begin with, while still others protest, viewing this as eugenicist. World governments begin to adopt the program? prominent ‘masks’ speak out to their own experiences with the WWs and Plan V- but these same masks have been turning up dead! Our party is tasked with finding the killer, or killers, and/or protecting their next target, who turns out to be the party’s benefactor!

I'd love to share them @thoughtsofawildbadger ! (I lost the post before)

I wrote them down. Sorry about the images and not text!

Intangible Worlds, Sophomore Year

When hope was still high and smiles were easier to make.

(Yeah, the campaign season took a dark turn near the end there and now we’re all wallowing)