GAMMALOT
John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, a pair of gunslingers and range-riders (gotta figure out their origins)
J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis; a two-headed robot that twists the mind with fantasy illusions (Animated, Mind Coercer maybe)
Michael Jackson, a dancing flurry of claws and light (photonic felinoid...yup yup)
Colin Powell in a huge war machine (yup that's fun)
I have a list somewhere and if anyone has some ideas just let me know
Surely Elvis should be a knight.
Afterwards, I gave the players a couple of skycycle and hoverboard Omega cards as part of the loot to represent the vehicles.
Never read that comic but it looks interesting.
I considered Gammalot, but I was afraid it wouldn't be taken seriously
as if anything Gammaverse related could.Those minis are cool, I gotta see if my son has any of them.
Einstein also would have been alive after Arthur's return to the modern world, so he's a possibility.
Oh! And Walt Disney! Disney World would have never been built (due to Florida being "enemy territory") so all the crazy ideas that would have been mere entertainment at EPCOT could instead have been employed in Gammalot... er... Camelot. People-Movers, an internatonal district, hydroponic greenhouses... you name it, the future is already there. And the Imagineers ... let's just say you don't want to mess with guys who are trained to use their imaginations AND have psychic powers.
I will soon start stat-blocking them, which might take a bit since I haven't really statted a monster since third edition.
Next would be a couple of origins (if needed, maybe a toon one to go with disney) followed by some Camelot themed omega tech.
Oh and a map of North America is definitely on my to-do list.
fwiw: just last night I used a bunch of these and these in my Gamma World session to represent futuristic knights (I re-flavored the Road Hogs encounter in Famine in Far Go to be a Knights of Purity encounter... I also outfitted the head knight's swoop-bike with a lance).
Afterwards, I gave the players a couple of skycycle and hoverboard Omega cards as part of the loot to represent the vehicles.
There is also a Hawkeye (archer) mounted on a skycycle.
Gammalot!
"Gammalot!"
"Gammalot!"
"It's only a model."
"Shh!"
He's added to the list now.
"Gammalot!"
"Gammalot!"
"Gammalot!"
"It's only a model."
"Shh!"
"On second thought, let's not go to Gammalot. It is a silly place."
WINSTON CHURCHILL
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
“Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.”
The first knight of the new round table, Sir Winston is a wise and adamant supporter of Arthur’s reign, and one of the king’s greatest advisors. In fact, Churchill remains as Camelot’s general and master of its forces, which makes him doubly dangerous: a genius with the home field advantage.
STORY
Following Arthur’s return, he and Winston travelled directly to Buckingham Palace with as many loyal soldiers as they could round up to free the imprisoned British Royals. There they faced great tragedy however, as the Nazi soldiers had set fire to the building after spies had alerted them of Arthur’s coming.
Winston led the soldiers against their enemies while Arthur rushed inside. By the time the short battle was over, they found that Arthur had only been able to save a handful of people, and that the king had perished in the flames, sacrificing himself to save his daughter Elizabeth. George VI’s death empowered his people’s hearts of mind (especially when used by a master orator like Churchill), and the Nazis were soon ran out of Great Britain.
Following the war, Elizabeth was named as ruler of England after Arthur announced his desire to travel west, to the Americas. It was only natural that Churchill would go with him, and he resigned as Prime Minister at that time. Together with Crowley and a handful of new knights, they travelled to America, where they were granted honorary citizenship as a reward for their efforts in preventing a well-planned attack that had been planned by the Japanese against the U.S. at Pearl Harbor in December of 1941.
In a special ceremony, Arthur was declared a nationalized citizen by President Franklin D. Roosevelt who hoped to place the newly reborn king in his cabinet. Arthur had little interest in political life at that time however, but did agree to place his knights in the country’s service. It was in this capacity that Churchill offered Arthur his greatest service, all but taking over leadership of the knights, a roster that was growing quickly, while Arthur took time off over the course of the next twenty years.
The Knights of the Round Table became a key part of the U.S. government during Arthur’s sabbatical, and Churchill acted as advisor to most of the presidents during that time. Great advances were made in science and technology during this time, and space shuttle flights first orbited and finally landed on the moon years before such accomplishments had been anticipated. All were happily surprised by Arthur’s return to Washington D.C. in 1961 as President Martin Luther King’s Secretary of State. Vice President John F. Kennedy said it best in his speech at Arthur’s announcement for the position: “No words, symbol, or childhood notions could ever hope to approach the fortitude of this man and the great changes he has already brought into the world.”
Over the next two terms, Arthur and his knights served the president during a time that was heralded as the “New Golden Age”. Together, they stomped out racism while preventing wars with Russia, Vietnam, and Cuba. Churchill was instrumental in much of this, acting as a hard-hitting but fair speaker who spread the word that only peace would be permissible; America had “the biggest bomb” and possessed the balls to use it if need be. They had no fear of retaliation due to Tesla’s wall: a thin wave of current that blanketed the sky over the North American continent, simultaneously providing unlimited electrical power while protecting them from pesky bombs. The world could only respect their greater technology and hope to keep them as friends and allies or else face serious hardship from a true world power.
When John F Kennedy announced that he would not be running in the 1968 election in favor of supporting Arthur’s candidacy, the American people cheered in agreement. After winning by a near-total landslide, Arthur and his Vice President Churchill addressed the nation and the world abroad with a rousing speech in which they promised to eradicate tyranny and put an end to world hunger, two modest aims that they could have easily met if not for a serious, unforeseen deterrent.
In 1976, after the treaties of Moscow, Berlin, and the Middle East had all been signed and Congress had voted unanimously to make Arthur the Eternal U.S. President, the people of the United States felt both fortunate and elated to know that their country had made the world a great and wonderful place to live in. When Churchill took the stage in Philadelphia to introduce the President for his Bicentennial Address, a strange voice rose from the crowd. It was a woman named Morgan Le Fay, there with her two sisters, and she said: “Your pride becomes you, O great KING, but as was said ‘it must surely herald a great approaching fall’.” She and her sisters left then, and the event continued as planned, under an air of strange foreboding. Ten days later her words became clear with the first attack on U.S. soil in years: an atomic bomb at noon in Times Square, New York City.
Walt Disney could be a Doppelganger / Rat Swarm. Don't misunderstand... HE isn't a swarm of rats, but the doppelganger he summons is. Cartoon mice, to be precise. Or maybe ducks. Or chipmunks. Whatever characters you like, really, as long as they appear and swarm the opponent. Walt would probably still have the swarm resistances/vulnerabilities, though.
Stephen Hawking pretty much has to be a Radioactive. I mean, the origin's Encounter power is named for him, after all! So either Radioactive/Wheeled, or Radioactive Engineered Human with a spiffy Omega Tech wheelchair.
Nikolai Tesla should probably be Electrokinetic Engineered Human. Or maybe an Electrokinetic Andriod, having built himself a body to survive the war (since he actually died in 1943). Or, even weirder, an Electrokinetic AI! Maybe he figured out a way to transpose his mind into the relatively new field of radio technology, allowing his personality to be broadcast wherever he wishes to be.
John Wayne and Clint Eastwood... this could go a lot of different ways. On the one hand, you might want to go with Pure-Strain Human, high Dex and Con, just pure red-blooded American heroes. On the other hand, you could make something fun like Exploding Speedster ("Don't mess with the Duke! You wouldn't like him when he's angry!") or Temporal Magnetic ("I can stop bullets!").
Also, if you need more knights, Oraibi's original mini-adventure contains stats for a Robo-Reagan. Enough said.
Almost done with Churchill. I am suffering a bit of delay because we are in the process of opening a restaurant and I want everything done right (just spent way too long typing a rough draft of the menu).
Back on topic.
I have begun brainstorming a Toon origin, based on a greater amount of brainstorming concerning Disney's story. I have a few ideas concerning the powers and hope to have it fleshed out over the next couple of days. Any ideas are, as always, incredibly welcome.
My players know nothing about this campaign, or even that I am planning it...can't wait to smack them with it all
