Spectaculars Issues 1-4 (August Saturdays)

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Spectaculars is an episodic super-hero game by Scratchpad Publishing. It explicitly supports drop-in play and quick characters. During the course of a Spectaculars campaign, it’s possible to essentially create several series of comics—street level, magical, Fantastic Four-ish, and Cosmic adventures.

We’ll begin with Street Level play but be able to switch back and forth over a variety of sessions with characters moving between or new character being created quickly and easily. The game starts with filling out what’s happening in the city and building the game world before heading into the 1st adventure.

We will be using the X-Card and will be playing in accordance with the Gauntlet Inclusivity Policy.

This session is scheduled for 3.5 hours and will be recorded. 5 players

Saturday, August 10, 2019 4:00 PM → Saturday, August 10, 2019 7:30 PMIssue 1
Saturday, August 17, 2019 4:00 PM → Saturday, August 17, 2019 7:30 PMIssue 2
Saturday, August 24, 2019 4:00 PM → Saturday, August 24, 2019 7:30 PMIssue 3
Saturday, August 31, 2019 4:00 PM → Saturday, August 31, 2019 7:30 PMIssue 4

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#2

I’m down! I’m excited to try this system!

#3

I didn’t realize until I looked through it that it’s brought Legacy style mechanics to RPGs.

You unlock new character Archetypes as you play and can switch from setting to setting. I loved Dusk City Outlaws and this seems to do for Campaign play what DCO did for one-shots while still keeping the one shot, single episode framework.

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#4

I haven’t played Legacy or DCO, but I backed this based on some demos I watched on YouTube. Looks like a lot of fun.

I was a little worried about the physical cards and specialized dice online as I play online almost exclusively.

#5

It didn’t take me long to put on d20. The cards are in a PDF but every card is a single page so if you export them to images, it creates them all. Didn’t take me long to get it on roll20.

Legacy mechanics are like Pandemic Legacy or games like that. The physical version will have pads that let you pull pages off which will reveal archetypes, adventures, villains, etc. After adventures, you may unlock a new archetype or something like that.

Essentially, if you play through all 4 series pads, you’d need new pads if you didn’t want to make your own stuff up, though it doesn’t seem like it’d be hard.

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