This year's Summer Reading Program is Level Up! Which means lots of gaming-related programming. As the resident gamer in our Adult Services department, it falls to me to present much of that programming. I've had the idea of running a series of thematically - related, but functionally separate programs based on this idea:
The Council of Kangs seek to break the Marvel Cinematic Universe to gain their toe-hold on the Marvel Multiverse as a whole. Who knows what will really happen when they finally do? The Kangs are notoriously ambitious and treacherous lot, equally prone to backstabbing as to work in unison.
Their plan? To take the teams that fought some of the key, climatic battles of that universe and subtract them from the scenes. How these events add up to achieve that end for them is unknown. But Uatu (the Watcher), the Ancient One, AND Loki and Morbius of the Time Variance Authority have banded to recruit super-heroes from other continuities to save the multiverse!
The first Act will be The Battle of New York from the first Avengers movie. The gameplay implications are pretty much in the planning phase right now. But I'm working on some mechanics to move members of the team across a grid of New York to deal with the threats. And to come up with Objectives and/or Milestones to help motivate the action.
Here's the B-Team so far:
Captain Carter, HYDRA-Stomper, Beta Ray Bill, the purple "Hulk Hogan", Yelena Belova, and Ghost Spider. Since I've billed the program as being up to eight players, I'm adding Ant-Man and Deadpool as surprise guests.
I'm seriously considering having Thanos be the Big Bad, instead of Loki in this scenario. Should be interesting! I'll be linking each of them to datafiles I find online or that I just create myself. 'Nuff Said!
P.S. I won't be linking heroes that have previously published datafiles -- I unless I modify them first. That means Beta Ray Bill and Deadpool are off-limits. Dead Pool is available in the Civil Wars Event Book. Unfortunately, Beta Ray Bill is in the discontinued (but only available at the time for purchase as a PDF) Annihilation Event Book.
No comments:
Post a Comment