AGE OF WONDERS - "The IMPERIALS"

"The British Empire has always encountered difficulty in distinguishing between its heroes and its monsters..."

GREETINGS, children of vanquished and colonised nations the world o'er.

Welcome to this telling of our exciting picture-periodical for boys and girls. And let us bid a special welcome to those poorer children who, in four or five years time, will be gratefully reminisce these words in a creased and dog-eared copy of our transcripted publication, perhaps donated to their orphanage or borstal by local Rotarians. To all such urchins of the future, and to our educated audience of the present day, we wish you many happy fireside hours in the memorium of the thrills and chuckles inwhich we shall play, though let us not forget the many serious, morally instuctive points there are within this narracitve: firstly, women are always going on and making a fuss. Secondly, the German and Chinese are brilliant, but evil. Lastly, laudanum, taken in moderation is good for the eyesight and prevents kidney-stones. With these dictums in mind, allow us to wish both many hours of pictorial pleasure.

LONDON, Eighteen Hundred Eighty Nine.

The Victorian Era is in it's latter day, as the last decade of the 19th century begins to open. It is a time of great change in an age of stagnation, a period of chaste order and ignoble chaos. It has been too long since heroes walked this land.

And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth's mighties heroes found themselves united against a common threat! On that day, the AVENGERS were born -- to fight the foes no single Man Of Renown could withstand!

HUZZAH!

Thus we begin our first remarkable and rousing serial narrative... The first edition of our new Boys' Picture Monthly will begin this arresting yarn. If man ye be and not some craven dog of Flanders, then in GOD's name do not fail to reserve your seat at the table for this edition of our Great Game of illustrated chap-book.

With Best Regards, I remain, a friend and confidant to boys everywhere.

Long live the Queen!

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Welcome to AGE OF WONDERS - "the AVENGERS - 1889" setting and campaign wiki. This wiki site is a resource for a face-to-face tabletop superhero role-playing game using the M&M system called "the AVENGERS - 1889". This site is a wiki, which is a web page that can be editted by anyone with surfing the web! The goal of this wiki site is to form a repository of information about our game that is easily accessible and edittable to the entire game group. A "campaign series bible".

CAMPAIGN CONNECTIONS

• The AVENGERS - 1889 Back Issue Bin: This is the spot for game session recaps by both GM and Players. Included with each issue are the Power Point Awards and current total each Player Character should be built at. the AVENGERS - 1889 serial campaign is broken into story arcs. What are Story Arcs?
• the AVENGERS - 1889 Yahoo Discussion: This is where the group actively discusses game events, recaps as well as the planning of game gatherings and general group chit chat.
  • The IMPERIALS Campaign Questions: These are the questions I asked each player to complete in simple 1-3 sentence answers.
• The London Trumpet - Victorian Broadsheets: Herein one may read the weekly London Trumpet broadsheets truebelievers...

AGE OF WONDERS: Setting Background

The IMPERIALS (MARVEL's Victorian Age Avengers)

PL8 | 150pp

It's the Victorian Age, 1888. The world needs heroes, great heroes. In a setting "re-imagined" from Marvel Comics. Players take the role of any previous "Avenger" from Marvel Comics continuity and "re-imagines" them in a Victorian state of mind. ONLY former Avenger characters are allowed (but many many Marvel heroes have been Avengers!).

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the AVENGERS ROSTER

- Captain America

CIVILIAN IDENTITY:  ???
"Blah blah blah, this is where you write a short bio brief, who you are, why you are and what you're going to do about it..." ... (as played by Devon)

- Vision

CIVILIAN IDENTITY:  ???
"Blah blah blah, this is where you write a short bio brief, who you are, why you are and what you're going to do about it..." ... (as played by Eric)

- Living Lightning

CIVILIAN IDENTITY:  ???
"Blah blah blah, this is where you write a short bio brief, who you are, why you are and what you're going to do about it..." ... (as played by Mark)

- Wasp

CIVILIAN IDENTITY: Lady Janet Van Dyne
Peer of the Van Dyne title. Defender of the Realm. Defender of the Natural Order." ... (as played by John)

- Dr. Strange

CIVILIAN IDENTITY:  ???
"Blah blah blah, this is where you write a short bio brief, who you are, why you are and what you're going to do about it..." ... (as played by Karl)

The Unknownable Spyder Man!

CIVILIAN IDENTITY: Pieter Benjerman Parkure
"Blah blah blah, this is where you write a short bio brief, who you are, why you are and what you're going to do about it..." ... (as played by Karl)

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WORLD AT LARGE

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the UNKNOWN (neutral or unknown)

• Van Dye Industries: Textile creations owned by Madam Janet Van Dye.

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LOCATIONS OF INTEREST

Notable areas, landmarks, institutions and businesses

The London Trumpet

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RESOURCE MATERIAL

• visit Green Ronin's home page: Green Ronin Publishing
• visit Mutants and Masterminds' home page: M&M "Headquarters"
• visit the M&M Forums: M&M Forum - "the Atomic Think Tank"
• What is M&M? Mutants and Masterminds
• M&M RPG.net Wiki

Avengers Resource

• Avenger Roster
• Avenger covers
• Avenger stories
• Avengers source
• Avenger's ID Card

ANIMAL STATS Steve Kenson posted several new animals templates for M&M2e... Here they are for posterity.

NEAT FACT-OIDS

POLICE RESPONSE TIMES

• Rich Suburbs and Civic Centres: 4 minutes +1d20 rounds.
• Middle class suburbs, and entertainment centers: 8 minutes +1d20 rounds.
• Slums and low-class suburbs: 1d20 minutes.

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SPOILERS

• Kevin Perrine Campaign SPOILER Page: GM EYES ONLY, NOT for players of this campaign!!

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