The Endowment of the Dark Gods

Dark cults, evil secret societies, and hidden orders of killers are a standard part of most d20 settings. Yet it’s very hard to say where they come from. These are d20 universes here. You don’t have to join a dark cult to obtain mystic secrets, and any library holds out the promise of arcane power. [...]

The Cauldron-Born

   Beyond the borders of the world the limitless sea of chaos – the true wyld deeps – seethes and changes, it’s only fundamental law being that self-awareness may lay it’s will upon the tides of madness and shape it, at least until some greater surge rises from the chaos to wipe such awareness away. [...]

Godlike – Lebenszyklus (“Lifecycle”)

   From the Beer Hall Putsch until the Allied Victory, the rise and fall of the Third Reich spanned some twenty-two years. In the great sweep of time, against the backdrop of ten thousand years of European development, a mere moment – come and gone in a blink of history.    In the life of [...]

Superheroic Visitants

   To continue with the character-list theme, here we have a set of Continuum-II super-heroes (or super-villains, depending on who you ask). As usual for super-beings, quite a few of these have wandered into the Champions game – and may get into any other game at any time. Super-beings are like that.    To continue [...]

The Guardians and Associates

   Ah character lists… They make it so much easier to keep track of the characters. Afterwards though, what do you do with them? You recycle them into another game of course!    Here’s the list from an old Continuum II superhero game, now recycled into the Champions game background.    The GUARDIANS (Generally Underage And Rambunctious [...]

Godlike: Nahualli

Nahualli (“Priest/Sorcerer”)    Metztli Ac’ab (“Moon that becomes the night”)    Mexico was one of the allied powers in WWII. While only one air squadron – the “Aztec Eagles” – saw combat in the Philippines, the resources and oil of Mexico helped fuel the industries of the United States, they denied their ports to the [...]

Godlike: Carnage

   Here we have an extremely destructive character for the Godlike or Wild Talents systems.    Marcel Diggs wound up in the military in lieu of jail time for petty theft – and was pretty unhappy when, in the place of a mostly-empty village (where he could expect to scoop up the makings of a [...]

Godlike: Dybbuk

   The victims were starved and desperate, unarmed and helpless. They forced them to dig a trench that would become their own mass grave, lined them up, and shot them as they pleaded and tried to hide their children behind them. They tossed them – whether or not they still clung to life – into [...]

Godlike: G.T.E. and Le Tenebres

   For today, it’s an optional rule – General Talent Experience for the non-commandoes in your game – and another character for the Godlike or Wild Talents system. Our character for today is Le Tenebres (“The Darkness”), a formidable “sorcerer”. While his background is a bit more specific (France) than usual, it’s also open to [...]

Your New Villains

   I’ve put up a page in the Encyclopedia section under Villain Groups for your new groups of spectral opponents – the Whermacht – and may be putting up a few more items today depending on the time available.