The Avengers opens this weekend (I already have my ticket for the midnight showing on Thursday night!), so my posts this week are going to have a bit of a superhero theme. I'll start by saying a few words about the first-ever Front Porch campaign, a superhero game that used the excellent Champions system.
Earth Commanders, which debuted in 1988 and ran for more than two years, was the story of an international superhero team (no doubt inspired by DC's Justice League) headquartered in a centuries-old cathedral in Montreal. The main non-player character was a powerful but psychologically unstable telepath called Jester. He was joined by a large cast of player characters -- I estimate about ten in all, but we typically had between three and five show up on my parents' front porch for any given adventure. The two most active player characters were Scott's Nightstalker (a stealthy slicer-and-dicer) and Jeremy's Panther (a burly bruiser). Together they cut a swath of destruction across the superpowered criminal underworld.
Next time we'll take a look at those early Porch adventures and see just how primitive they were...
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