Back in the day, the following advert graced our local comic store and supermarket of our town – How closely the player characters and campaign lived up to this I leave for you to decide. Although we primarily play face-to-face, we welcome new UK or Europran players able to join us online.

Is it a bird, is it a plane..?

No, it’s a mature GM/Ref’ with over 40 years of tabletop Role-Play Gaming experience (only recently started playing face-to-face again) running a Mutants & Masterminds (3rd Edition)™ Superhero campaign set in the fictional city of Wessex in the UK, on an alternative Earth set technologically “15 minutes” into the future.

GM Previous experience in running long-term campaigns in Sci-Fi (Traveller), horror (Call of Cthulhu), superhero, time travel and covert espionage games (first time running M&M though). NOT a big fan of D&D/Hack & Slash/Fantasy games.

Players without previous RPG experience welcome. I’m happy to (try and) answer any questions or provide support.

Game style – Think Justice League of America (cartoon version), Avengers, Marvel UK, Teen Justice, Gen 13, Neverwhere/Sandman & other 1990’s influences – closer to Marvel style of storytelling than DC, Focus on soap opera / relationship building and narrative while characters potentially develop into the ‘world’s greatest heroes’.

Ongoing character development playing style is preferred to max power-building; Role playing rather than “roll a dice” playing.

Campaign will have strong moral code, this will be a team-based, preferably costumed/codename, four colour superhero campaign (with occasional darker adventures and adult themes), no intentional killing, criminal behaviour results in prison/punishment, UK weapons code (no swords or lethal guns). Lethal attacks or powers need to be restrained.

Assistance with building your character will be available.

Magic, myth, meta-human or tech origin characters accepted – Alien only after prior consultation with Ref. No Anime, Manga, Toon or lone wolf. Would prefer no strangers without a past, or pre-existing DC/Marvel™ comic characters.

Contact Bluebook@WriteMe.com for more details.

Shard from Nightwatch
(personal PC from a PBM (Play By Mail) campaign I ran in the 1990’s)