I’ve started Rising Tide, an Astonishing Super Heroes campaign set in Boston, MA. This article will take a deep-dive behind the GM’s screen on how I setup a superhero campaign loaded with historical detail with very little prep.
This is about building the campaign setting itself. I’ll talk a little about the setting of Boston, how I pulled together an awesome roster of NPCs and a few cool locations, and how I generated the first scenario of the campaign. Best of all, I’ll show you how I was able to do it very easily and very quickly by putting most of the work on the players!