Rising Tide is an superhero campaign set in Boston, MA. I’m the GM, and this issue marks the first session since we converted from Astonishing Super Heroes to Cortex Prime by-way-of-Marvel Heroic Roleplaying. In this issue, I’m joined by my brother Joel, running two heroes: Minute Man (a not-man-out-of-time version of Captain America, whose legacy is a shield wielded by several past superheroes dating back to WWII) and Weather Woman (think Storm’s powers but Kitty Pride’s more girl-next-door origins).
I will be posting session reports (“campaign journal”) like this one of the campaign periodically. They will include commentary on — or tie into related posts about — campaign building, on-the-fly rulings, and even playtesting new game mechanics. If this is your first visit, consider starting with Issue #1 to get some of the campaign setting and character backstory. You don’t need to read Issue #2 and Issue #3 to understand this one, as it’s a side story. Unless, of course, you want to! If you’re more interested in general superhero campaign advice, take a look at how we built this campaign setting collaboratively as our session zero.
In Issue #4, we cut to nighttime in Los Angeles, California, where two heroes are performing their usual rounds. Suddenly, a call comes in about a prison break that doesn’t quite make sense, followed by a brawl between opposing supervillains. Just when things couldn’t get more inexplicable, the corporate security at Monarch Techtronics calls in for help, their security overwhelmed by mind control!
