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''A semi-historical Mutants and Masterminds (1st edition) game set in and around the British Empire in 1875''.
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''A semi-historical Mutants and Masterminds (1st edition) game set in and around the British Empire in the high Victorian era''.
  
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This wiki supports '''The Library''', set in 1875 and featuring the exploits of a new cabal of Collection Assets.
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This wiki supports '''The Library''', set in 1875 and featuring the exploits of a new cabal of Collection Assets. It is inspired in equal parts by both ''The League of Extraordinary Gentleman'' and Charles Stross' ''The Laundry''. The Player Characters work for a secret government ministry charged with defending the Crown and the Realm against the occult and other weirdness.
  
  
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'''The Player Characters'''
 
'''The Player Characters'''
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[[The_Library/Ajax |Ajax]] - a man of West African origins framed for murder and robbery, then passed to an alchemist after a staged execution. Injected with an experimental alchemical serum, he gained superhuman strength and vitality. After escaping he was found by the Library, who produce the toxin he needs to take every week to keep his serum in equilibrium..
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[[The_Library/Rakshika |Rakshika Powell]] - an Anglo-Indian mystic who used her occult powers to bind an angelic being into herself. One of her binding rituals caught the attention of the organisations occultists and she seeks to use their resources to expand her knowledge.
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[[The_Library/Treveylan |Captain Treveylan]] - a famous military hero, direct descendant of King Arthur and wielder of Excalibur. While he's known about the existence of the Library for a while, he was only recently called to serve.
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[[Tyche's_Favourites |Tyche's Favourites]] - Our historical ACKS game set in Massalia 300BC. <br>
 
[[Tyche's_Favourites |Tyche's Favourites]] - Our historical ACKS game set in Massalia 300BC. <br>
 
[[Acrozatarim |Acrozatarim]] - A homebrew fantasy game using 13th Age<br>
 
[[Acrozatarim |Acrozatarim]] - A homebrew fantasy game using 13th Age<br>
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[[Werewolf_Paris |City of Light]] - Our ''Werewolf: the Forsaken'' 2nd edition game set in contemporary Paris.<br>
  
  
 
'''Other related links'''<br>
 
'''Other related links'''<br>

Latest revision as of 16:35, 4 February 2015

The Library[edit]

A semi-historical Mutants and Masterminds (1st edition) game set in and around the British Empire in the high Victorian era.


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This wiki supports The Library, set in 1875 and featuring the exploits of a new cabal of Collection Assets. It is inspired in equal parts by both The League of Extraordinary Gentleman and Charles Stross' The Laundry. The Player Characters work for a secret government ministry charged with defending the Crown and the Realm against the occult and other weirdness.


Main Sections[edit]

The Player Characters

Ajax - a man of West African origins framed for murder and robbery, then passed to an alchemist after a staged execution. Injected with an experimental alchemical serum, he gained superhuman strength and vitality. After escaping he was found by the Library, who produce the toxin he needs to take every week to keep his serum in equilibrium..

Rakshika Powell - an Anglo-Indian mystic who used her occult powers to bind an angelic being into herself. One of her binding rituals caught the attention of the organisations occultists and she seeks to use their resources to expand her knowledge.

Captain Treveylan - a famous military hero, direct descendant of King Arthur and wielder of Excalibur. While he's known about the existence of the Library for a while, he was only recently called to serve.


Other Characters

Non Player Characters - Other people of note.


Campaign Notes


Mechanics

Alternative Skill list - A variation from the skills in the M&M core.


Resources[edit]

Links[edit]

In Sanity We Trust Productions. This is where our podcasts are hosted. Here you can listen to the sessions, mostly as they happened (we've only edited out dead air, not the general blather, noise of clattering dice and so on) for yourself. All are broken into two parts for ease of digestion.
Podcast listing - direct links to the podcasts, broken up by story/episode.
Blank character sheet


Other works from us

Mass: the Effecting - the rules for our custom-made nWoD Mass Effect hack.
The campaign wiki for Mass Effect: Transcendence - a Mass Effect game charting the adventures of Penumbra Securities, an ethical mercenary company.
The Unforgiving - Mage: the Awakening - a historical Mage game set in 1750 New York province.
Tyche's Favourites - Our historical ACKS game set in Massalia 300BC.
Acrozatarim - A homebrew fantasy game using 13th Age
City of Light - Our Werewolf: the Forsaken 2nd edition game set in contemporary Paris.


Other related links