Post by Rabbit on Jun 12, 2012 17:08:25 GMT -5
Mutants and Masterminds: 1961 (Home Brew Adventure Setting)
SETTING
The year is 1961. JFK is president. Frank Sinatra and Elvis are on the radio. The Cold War is at its peak. The Berlin Wall is going up. The Space Race is in high gear.
Your characters are registered with and work in cooperation with the US government to protect and defend the citizens of the United States (and the world) against threats from home and abroad.
THEMES
The Avengers (“Earth's Mightiest Heroes” fight the foes no single hero can withstand.)
Men in Black (“Secret Agents” policing the super and supernatural.)
A BRIEF TIMELINE OF THE LAST 20 YEARS
In the Beginning: Crime Fighters and War Heroes
Pre-1941: The “caped crusader” phenomenon develops across the United States. These do-gooders were typically exceptional individuals battling local mobsters and city crime. Criminals began to use masks as well.
1941 -WWII: Many new and old heroes joined the Allies’ war effort. Most notably, American Eagle emerged as America's Pacific champion and regularly battled Japan's super-soldier, The Jade Samurai. On the Western Front a super-hero team, The Hoodlums, regularly disrupted Nazi attempts to use the occult against the Allied Forces.
1945 -The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Cold War and Birth of the “Atomic Age”
1945 -The amount of heroes and villains with “super powers” began to increase thanks to radiation, gamma rays, beta rays, x-rays, mutations, etc.
1946 - Political and military tension between the US and the USSR begins to split much of the world into East and West factions.
1949 -The Soviet Union got The Bomb
1955 -McCarthyism: Fueled by heightened fears of communist influence on American institutions and espionage by Soviet agents. In addition to anti-communist witch hunts Senator McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) held hearings to investigate the "influence and motivations of super persons operating within the United States and abroad."
The iconic hero and WWII veteran, American Eagle, reveals his secret identity to conform to McCarthy's "Unmasking Campaign." Shortly afterwards the super-villain Black Mask murdered American Eagle's wife and three children. After capturing Black Mask, American Eagle disappeared and has not been seen since. In response to the murders and loss of America’s beloved hero, public opinion drastically shifted against McCarthy in support of a super-hero’s right to keep their secret identities.
1956 -Another unmasked hero, Bounce Back, retires from crime fighting and runs for senate under his true name Harold Davis. After winning a landslide election, Senator Davis sponsored a Bill allowing heroes to keep their identities secret but also established an agency to "monitor and oversee collaboration with supers on behalf of the United States government." Senator Davis heads the Super Persons Monitoring (SPM) Committee to this day.
1957 - 1961 -USSR launch Sputnik 1 and 2 triggering a space race between the USSR and the United States. Both countries continue to conduct space missions with varied degrees of success. By 1961 both countries have put a man in space.
1961 -
April: Bay of Pigs: an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba less than three months after John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency in the United States.
May: President John F. Kennedy addresses Congress and challenges the nation to go to the Moon before the end of the decade.
August: The Berlin Wall goes up.
The Game Begins
SETTING
The year is 1961. JFK is president. Frank Sinatra and Elvis are on the radio. The Cold War is at its peak. The Berlin Wall is going up. The Space Race is in high gear.
Your characters are registered with and work in cooperation with the US government to protect and defend the citizens of the United States (and the world) against threats from home and abroad.
THEMES
The Avengers (“Earth's Mightiest Heroes” fight the foes no single hero can withstand.)
Men in Black (“Secret Agents” policing the super and supernatural.)
A BRIEF TIMELINE OF THE LAST 20 YEARS
In the Beginning: Crime Fighters and War Heroes
Pre-1941: The “caped crusader” phenomenon develops across the United States. These do-gooders were typically exceptional individuals battling local mobsters and city crime. Criminals began to use masks as well.
1941 -WWII: Many new and old heroes joined the Allies’ war effort. Most notably, American Eagle emerged as America's Pacific champion and regularly battled Japan's super-soldier, The Jade Samurai. On the Western Front a super-hero team, The Hoodlums, regularly disrupted Nazi attempts to use the occult against the Allied Forces.
1945 -The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Cold War and Birth of the “Atomic Age”
1945 -The amount of heroes and villains with “super powers” began to increase thanks to radiation, gamma rays, beta rays, x-rays, mutations, etc.
1946 - Political and military tension between the US and the USSR begins to split much of the world into East and West factions.
1949 -The Soviet Union got The Bomb
1955 -McCarthyism: Fueled by heightened fears of communist influence on American institutions and espionage by Soviet agents. In addition to anti-communist witch hunts Senator McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) held hearings to investigate the "influence and motivations of super persons operating within the United States and abroad."
The iconic hero and WWII veteran, American Eagle, reveals his secret identity to conform to McCarthy's "Unmasking Campaign." Shortly afterwards the super-villain Black Mask murdered American Eagle's wife and three children. After capturing Black Mask, American Eagle disappeared and has not been seen since. In response to the murders and loss of America’s beloved hero, public opinion drastically shifted against McCarthy in support of a super-hero’s right to keep their secret identities.
1956 -Another unmasked hero, Bounce Back, retires from crime fighting and runs for senate under his true name Harold Davis. After winning a landslide election, Senator Davis sponsored a Bill allowing heroes to keep their identities secret but also established an agency to "monitor and oversee collaboration with supers on behalf of the United States government." Senator Davis heads the Super Persons Monitoring (SPM) Committee to this day.
1957 - 1961 -USSR launch Sputnik 1 and 2 triggering a space race between the USSR and the United States. Both countries continue to conduct space missions with varied degrees of success. By 1961 both countries have put a man in space.
1961 -
April: Bay of Pigs: an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba less than three months after John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency in the United States.
May: President John F. Kennedy addresses Congress and challenges the nation to go to the Moon before the end of the decade.
August: The Berlin Wall goes up.
The Game Begins
