- Posting Speed
- Speed of Light
- Writing Levels
- Douche
- Preferred Character Gender
- No Preferences
EPIC stands for Every Plot Is Connected.
This a game about a crime-fighting agency made up of superheroes.
Their job: To hunt down inter-dimensional villains and thwart their evil plans.
This a game about a crime-fighting agency made up of superheroes.
Their job: To hunt down inter-dimensional villains and thwart their evil plans.
How it works: The team start in the agency headquarters then jump into a random dimension. The world is determined using this generator.
So for instance, the generator produces this plot, which is pasted into the OOC:
This is a road trip tale. The story is about an incoherent wanderer who seems insane. It starts in a manufacturing city in Eurasia. The issue of pollution plays a major role in this story.
The players then describe this world and how their superheroes bump into its characters and witness its events. They decide in the OOC how it will work, e.g. will it be a steampunk world full of smog? Or a fantasy world where Necromancers have blocked out the sun? Will they be on the road trip themselves? Or do they start in the factory?
After 1 week of roleplaying, another player uses the generator to show the next world that the superheroes jump to.
This happens 4 times, and at the end of the month, one player has to introduce the Super Villain who is behind the events happening in the 4 worlds.
So, for example, if these are the 4 worlds....
1) This is a road trip tale. The story is about an incoherent wanderer who seems insane. It starts in a manufacturing city in Eurasia. The issue of pollution plays a major role in this story.
2) The story is about a spendthrift peasant with a chemical dependency. It takes place in a military outpost in a lost police state. The critical element of the story is a misunderstanding.
3) This is a story about deceit and the need for intelligent analysis. The story is about a calm chemist and a student. It starts in a village. Genetic engineering and its side effects is a major part of this story.
4) The story is about school teachers. It starts in a morgue. The story begins with the passing of a test, climaxes with an apocalyptic event, and ends with someone moving to a new dwelling.
2) The story is about a spendthrift peasant with a chemical dependency. It takes place in a military outpost in a lost police state. The critical element of the story is a misunderstanding.
3) This is a story about deceit and the need for intelligent analysis. The story is about a calm chemist and a student. It starts in a village. Genetic engineering and its side effects is a major part of this story.
4) The story is about school teachers. It starts in a morgue. The story begins with the passing of a test, climaxes with an apocalyptic event, and ends with someone moving to a new dwelling.
....then the player could invent a Super Villain who uses chemicals to create zombies. The peasant from World 1 and the wanderer from World 2 are test subjects. He has stolen these chemicals by deceiving the calm chemist in World 3, but the teachers in World 4 have been studying bodies at the morgue and have discovered his plans to unleash a zombie apocalypse. The Superheroes defeat the villain and then help the teachers move to a new dwelling.
And that would be the end of Episode 1. The Super Villain would be locked up at the agency and could one day escape to cause further havoc.
Then Episode 2 begins, with the jump to 4 new worlds and a new Super Villain's diabolical plan...
The roleplay will be light-hearted and mad, a cross between a cartoon and a surreal comedy (think Men in Black, Austin Powers, Scooby Doo, etc.)