Contents

• Players
• Characters
• Schedule
• Timeline
• Rules Notes
• Campaign Notes
  • Cities With Superhero Teams
  • NPCs
  • Paranormal Breakdown (by profession)
  • Theories of Paranormality
  • World History

Players

• Chrisber
• Dave
• Jeremy
• Margaret
• Tara
• Trip

Characters

• Dragon

• Gale Force

  Spirit of California

• Ginger

  Ginger Rogers, Brick

• Levinbolt

  Electric Starlet

• Poly

  Ingenue Flying Polyp

• Dr. Rune

  Glowing Glyphic Freak

Schedule

• 12/13/98 - Day of the Necromancer
• 12/19/98 - Don, The Chitinous Terror
• 01/01/99 - The Gingerbread Kidnapping
• 01/30/99 - To Catch a Thief
• 02/13/99 - A Brief Interlude
• 02/27/99 - Big Trouble in Chinatown
• 04/10/99 - Funeral Pyre
• 04/24/99 - Ecoterrorists from Beyond
• 05/08/99 - Signs and Portents
• 05/22/99 - Of Bugs and Bears

Rules Notes

• The rules used for this campaign are standard Champions, with the following modifications:
  • ECNG modifications
  • Extensive campaign houserules
  • The costs for powers (including PD and ED, but no other Characteristics) have been halved
  • Elemental Controls are not allowed, nor are Variable Power Pools
  • Powers can not be transferable (no supertech). No aliens, no egregious dimension or time travelling.
  • Telepathy affects surface thoughts only.
  • Mind Control is no longer fire'n'forget - it's now more like a constant power, in that it can only affect one target at a time
  • Mental Illusions can no longer do damage.
  • Certain accepted power Advantages and Limitations have been agreed upon (also certain items of technology).
• Characters are built on 100 base points, with up to 100 points of Disadvantages.
• Damage Class limits are 10-12 for attacks, with the expectation that more attacks will be 10, rather than 12.
• Expected SPD for PCs is about 4.
• Expected DEF for PCs is about 20-25.
• There is a 15 point group hunted. Exactly who or what this is will probably become evident in the first session (if not before), or soon afterward.
• Experience for each session will run 1-2 points, but the early sessions will be double this.

Campaign Notes

Cities With Superhero Teams

• Austin, TX
• New York City, NY
• Chicago
• Bay Area (which has O(300) noticeable paranormals)
  • Hero Teams
    • Super Seven - Located in San Francisco
    • California Defenders - Perhaps based in San Francisco, this team ranges all over California, and lays claim to being the "Californian" superteam. Members include the Golden Bear.
    • Berkeley Mob - Originally based in Berkeley, but now headquartered in San Jose, this is a loose affiliation of the weaker Bay Area superheroes. They share information and aid each other on occasion.
    • Pacific Force - Based in San Francisco, this new team already has notable success and problems.
  • Villains
    • The Necromancer - This villain is claimed by Jeremy.
    • ETLA (or whatever) - Paranormal supremacists
  • Other
    • Power Unlimited - a rather mercenary organization, this company will hire out paranormal individuals or teams for people with "special" needs. They are suspected of being involved in illegal activity, but nothing has been proven, as yet.
• Los Angeles, CA
• Boston, MA
• Washington, D.C.
• Atlanta, GA
• New Orleans, LA
  Vampires tend to gravitate here, and Anne Rice has been banned by the city. There are claims that at least one of the vampires can create new ones, but no evidence has, shall we say, come to light.

Paranormal Breakdown (by profession)

• 50% supervillain
• 20% jailed (both villain and hero)
• 10% busy with more important things
• 20% superhero

Theories of Paranormality

1. There is a common (but by no means universal) theory that the powers granted (or whatever) are good for fighting and not much else. There are several paranormals that are disappointed with the powers they have, for this very reason.
2. Some people believe that paranormal powers are somehow linked to LSD, since the widespread appearance of paranormals coincides with increased usage of LSD. Attempts have been made to demonstrate paranormal activity previous to the '60's, but no hard evidence has yet surfaced.
3. A few crackpots believe that paranormals have a connection to other planes of existence. The belief is that these other planes have different physical laws which the paranormal somehow brings into our universe (therefore, in the other plane, the paranormal would be just like everyone else).

World History

Paranormals first started appearing in the 1960's. The early paranormals were not that powerful, but power levels have been increasing over time.

Paranormals were targeted for drafting during the Vietnam war, but this didn't turn out as well as might have been hoped. Older draftees were not impressed by drill sergeants they could beat up, and paranormals in general tended to act more independently than normal soldiers. There are still paranormals in jail from the war, both for refusing orders in the face of the enemy (refusing to fight or otherwise), and for violent excesses (usually, but not always, directed against the enemy).

Later attempts to use paranormals by various intelligence agencies were also somewhat less than successful, with the CIA being the best documented example. One of their four paranormals destroyed the entire seventh floor of the Langley headquarters, taking some amount of upper management with it (including then CIA Chief), and was shortly thereafter gunned down. Of the three remaining, one vanished (but is believed to be somewhere in the US), and one turned government witness, blowing the whistle on CIA excesses, primarily those involving paranormal activity.

Other world governments have made attempts to use paranormals in various roles, but without much more success. To date, there are a few paranormals active in the US government, but these are all voluntary, and all have been carefully vetted.

Paranormals have had slightly better success at being at the top of the heap. At least one third world nation is directly run by a paranormal, and it's suspected that several other world leaders might be paranormal, or are figureheads for one.