All this recent Internet chatter about The Acrobatic Flea and the Mutants & Masterminds RPG system has started my old noggin slowly ticking away, reminiscing about our epic games of Villains & Vigilantes (soon to be profiled in an episode of 'My Life And Roleplaying'), which naturally led to thoughts of HeroPress and Knight City.Knight City, based on our old Villains & Vigilantes/HeroPress stomping ground of Royal Wells (sometimes called Wellcastle), is an "alternate Earth" version of the town I lives and worked for many years (Tunbridge Wells), the town where I now live (Tonbridge), Kent's county town (Maidstone) and several of the interesting villages in between (including Pembury, where Steve, Pete and I spent most of our early childhood).
When I reinvented Royal Wells, at the start of the year, for a planned online Unisystem RPG (Buffy, Angel, Army of Darkness etc) I redesigned the city as Knight City and gave it an urban fantasy twist. Sadly, except for the enthusiasm of Clare, this campaign idea fell on deaf ears and eventually I closed the campaign down. Basically, I learned, 'urban fantasy' is rather an acquired taste and none of my old gaming circle had acquired it!
So, the best thing to do - as always - is return to square one and start again. Square one in this case being 'superheroes' ... and who doesn't love superheroes!
It's going to be a long, slow process (especially as my hardcover, print copy of the Mutants & Masterminds rules has yet to turn up), but it should be fun to inject the super back into the city that gave us so many fond roleplaying memories in our youth.
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