Campaign Page – Aeon
The Aeon campaign ran from July 2022 to February 2024, with twenty-nine players running forty-six characters spread across nine teams.
Campaign
- Gamemaster’s Guidepost: Building Player Characters to the Concept
- Carpe Blogiem: It’s Been an Aeon…
- Carpe Blogiem: Aeon Campaign Arc 1, Post Mortem
- Carpe Blogiem: Aeon Campaign 3.0, Postmortem
- Carpe Blogiem: Aeon Handouts I [Only fully available to patreons]
House Rules and Custom Creations
- Carpe Blogiem: Powers Systems I’ve Used, Adapted, or Changed in My Campaigns
- Gamemaster’s Guidepost: Cutting Down Skill Rolls
- Designer’s Notes: Impulse Control
- Gamemaster’s Guidepost: Super-ST Options
- Designer’s Notes: Above the Law
- Designer’s Notes: Chi Sorcery
- Boil and Bubble: Subtle Sorcery
- Boil and Bubble: AEON Sorcery Spells I
- Boil and Bubble: AEON Sorcery Spells II
- Boil and Bubble: AEON Sorcery Spells III
- Boil and Bubble: AEON Sorcery Spells IV
- GURPS101: New Power – Bone Manipulation
- GURPS101: Injury Resistance
- GURPS101: Powers Negation and Mimicry
- The Hurt Locker: Fusion-Powered Chainsaw
- The Hurt Locker: Tangler Pistol
- The Hurt Locker: Van Dorian Industries UV-8 “Kite”
A-Team
The concept for A-Team was “First Generation” metahumans coming to gripes with their powers and the world around them.
Blog Entries
Cast
- Alexander Griffith aka Singularity (played by Natiel L.): a starving college student who moonlights as a private detective and a “failed” superhero (he was one of the first back in 2000). After his partner died he burned his costume
- Aysella Shinjitai aka Marionette (played by L.A.): a telekinetic who can detect Kyberian Energy, and boost or dampen other metahuman powers.
- Hobs Ini-Herit aka The Alchemist (played by Christian Gelacio): a straight-up matter controller with super-strength and devastating good looks.
- Jacob C. Wikvaya aka Shaman (played by Thomas P.): a plant, animal, and weather-controller. Also a criminal-mastermind (but not by choice).
- Roth Reynard aka Red Zone (played by Troia L.): a super-genius with flame powers and a fear of heights.
- Samuel Donick aka RePlay (played by Curtis Johnston): a telepath who can do your standard mind-tricks, but is exceptionally good at altering memories.
Session Recaps
- Aeon A-Team S00E01 – New Age Breakfast Club
- Aeon A-Team S00E02 – When the Towers Fell
- Aeon A-Team S01E01 – We Are Sentry
- Aeon A-Team S01E02 – And We Are Watching
- Aeon A-Team S01E03 – We Are Everywhere
- Aeon A-Team S01E04 – And We Will Not Forsake You
- Aeon A-Team S02E01 – You Are Broken, But Not Forgotten
- Aeon A-Team S02E02 – Eyes To The Future
- Aeon A-Team S02E03 – Mirror, Mirror
- Aeon A-Team S02E04 – Courage in the Crescent City
- Aeon A-Team S03E01 – Dead to Rights
- Aeon A-Team S03E02 – Subway System Shock
B-Team
The concept for B-Team was metahumans working for the local government to deal with criminals, rogue metahumans, and other threats to the city and their territory.
Blog Entries
Cast
- Amar Gupta (played by Christian Gelacio): Brick. Taxi Driver. Ass-Kicker. Sikh. Tagline: “Being a man of faith means to live it.”
- Ian Owari aka The Commander (played by Douglas Cole): Telekinetic super-soldier with a really angry dog (Yukio).
- Kenneth Rhames aka Doctor Thanatos (played by Merlin A.)
- Marduk (played by James)
- Rafe Hanlon aka Nyx (played by Chrisopher D.): An umbrakinetic and a petty thief out of prison on work release. Tagline: “Not for glory, not for fame…. For one person. In the dark. Where no one will ever know or see.”
Session Recaps
- AEON B-Team: Season 5, Session 1 – The Rescue
- AEON B-Team: Season 5, Session 10 – The Defeat of Soul Cage
- AEON B-Team: Season 5, Session 11 – Bankrobbers are Gonna Rob
- AEON B-Team: Season 5, Session 2 – Project: Vanguard
- AEON B-Team: Season 5, Session 3 – Anticlimactic Fight Scene
- AEON B-Team: Season 5, Session 4 – Assault on Armanaz
- AEON B-Team: Season 5, Session 5 – That Wasn’t Such a Chore, Now Was It?
- AEON B-Team: Season 5, Session 6 – A Dark Mirror
- AEON B-Team: Season 5, Session 7 – Banksied the Banksy
- AEON B-Team: Season 5, Session 8 – The Debut of Soul Cage
- AEON B-Team: Season 5, Session 9 – All Purple Everything
B2-Team
Cast
- Amar Gupta aka The Iron Sikh (played by Christian Gelacio): Brick. Taxi Driver. Ass-Kicker. Sikh. Tagline: “Being a man of faith means to live it.”
- Amie-Belle T. W. Lee aka Whisper (Played by Curtis Johnston): Cold War era super-soldier/spy that got put in the Freezer, because she got poisoned. After getting thawed out and cured she tried to back to work, and was given an “adjustment period”. Uncle Sam called 2 years later, with work… because once you’re in, you’re in for life. Tagline: “In and out without a whisper.”
- Beauregard K. “Bo” Ratnam aka Wirerat (Played by Brice M.): Technopath, inventor, and hacker. He specializes in co-opting enemy systems and tech assets. Tagline: “Nice tech – I’ll borrow that.”
- Rafe Hanlon aka Nyx (played by Christopher D.): An umbrakinetic petty thief still on work release several years later, on his way to becoming a true agent and hero. Tagline: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
- Vincenzo L. dePrezzo aka Threshold (Played by Rory F.): Doctor, Mathematician, and Scientist (yes, capitals) and Spatial Manipulator. Threshold can bend space like a pretzel, teleport, obliterate things, and has extraordinary senses. He’d rather be in a research lab than fight. Better known for his work with Doctors Without Borders, the United Nations, and disaster relief than famous battles. Tagline: “I can be there in a snap!”
Session Recaps
- AEON B2-Team: Season 6, Session 1 – Castles and Escapades
- AEON B2-Team: Season 6, Session 2 – Mission Report
- AEON B2-Team: Season 6, Session 3 – Some Work, Some Play
- AEON B2-Team: Season 6, Session 4 – Blot Out The Sun
- AEON B2-Team: Season 6, Session 5 – What Does This Button Do?
- AEON B2-Team: Season 6, Session 6 – Shadows in the Sky
- AEON B2-Team: Season 6, Session 7 – Select the Select Committee
- AEON B2-Team: Season 6, Session 8 – Committee Selected
- AEON B2-Team: Season 6, Session 9 – Simplicity. Ghost. Counsel. Genuine. Pace
- AEON B2-Team: Season 6, Session 10 – At An End
- AEON B2-Team: Season 7, Session 1 – At the Beginning
- AEON B2-Team: Season 7, Session 2 – Battle of the Queensboro Bridge
- AEON B2-Team: Season 7, Session 3 – Tryouts are Trying
- AEON B2-Team: Season 7, Session 4 – Explosions Galore
- AEON B2-Team: Season 7, Session 5 – The M0le_Tr0ll
- AEON B2-Team: Season 7, Session 6 – Digging Holes
- AEON B2-Team: Season 7, Session 7 – Subs Have Ways
- AEON B2-Team: Season 7, Session 8 – Here Comes the Boom
- AEON B2-Team: Season 7, Session 9 – Making Moves
- AEON B2-Team: Season 7, Session 10 – Putting it All Together
- AEON B2-Team: Season 7, Session 11 – Breakout at Breakfast
- AEON B2-Team: Season 8, Session 1 – So It Begins
- AEON B2-Team: Season 8, Session 2 – Part Of Your World
- AEON B2-Team: Season 8, Session 3 – In The Dark of the Day
- AEON B2-Team: Season 8, Session 4 – In the Dark of the Night
- AEON B2-Team: Season 8, Session 5 – Return in the Dark
- AEON B2-Team: Season 8, Session 6 – Out of the Dark
- AEON B2-Team: Season 8, Session 7 – Something In the Dark
- AEON B2-Team: Season 8, Session 8 – On the Verge of Something Unseen
- AEON B2-Team: Season 8, Session 9 – The Fall of Erebus
- AEON B2-Team: Season 8, Session 10 – It’s Been One Week
- AEON B2-Team: Season 8, Session 11 – Let’s Kidnap a Mechanic
- AEON B2-Team: Season 8, Session 12 – Hashtag #BadVibes
- AEON B2-Team: Season 8, Session 13 – Penultima
- AEON B2-Team: Season 8, Session 14 – Ultima
C-Team
The concept for C-Team was a team working to unravel a conspiracy and bring down a corporate giant.
Blog Entries
Cast
- Henry Young aka Springheel (played by Christopher D.): A hyperkinetic with superhuman reflexes that recently left one military to join another. Tagline: “What’s the point of shooting if you’re just going to miss?”
- Hssh ̚ok-qrra ͜a ͞a’escht ̷iish aka “Hiss” (played by Emily Smirle): A stranger in a strange land, with strange people, and strange technology. At least the microwave is a good conversationalist. Tagline: “Don’t try to pronounce that with your primitive honk-box.”
- “N.V.” (played by Dorien): Diva, darling, shapeshifter, and spy.. Tagline: “I like killer clothes and kicking nerds in the nose”
- J. Tyler Moody aka Magpie aka VERACITY (played by Travis Ellis): [REDACTED]. Tagline: “[REDACTED].”
- Rory Cook aka Boomer (played by Will M.): An expert scientist and self proclaimed “doctor” with the ability to charge objects so they explode. Tagline: “Where do you want the explosion?”
Session Recaps
- AEON C-Team: Season 4, Session 1 – Welcome to the Jungle
- AEON C-Team: Season 4, Session 2 – We Got Fun and Games
- AEON C-Team: Season 4, Session 3 – We Got Everything You Want
- AEON C-Team: Season 5, Session 4 – You Better Not Take It From Me
- AEON C-Team: Season 5, Session 5 – The Birth of Steely Dan Stapleman
C3-Team
Cast
- Benjamin B. Bailey (Played by Devin): A prodigy at earth science and an avid spelunker, Ben recently gained the power to reshape the same earth and stone that he studies. Naturally optimistic, he sees the best in those around him…even when he probably shouldn’t. Tagline: “With my friends as my foundation, I’ll never crumble.”
- Fiona A. Egan (Played by Chepe): A budding society girl and star athlete who keeps getting distracted by both civil and social engineering; also a hydromancer Scion slowly uncovering her powers. Tagline: “Don’t be a drip.”
- Hamilton F. A. Dermot (Played by Randy H.): TBA. Power: ESP.
- Harlowe E. Hobbs (Played by Christopher D.): A chess grandmaster, military nerd, and burgeoning flyrokinetic at an early age. Tagline: “Anyone who looks on the world as a game of chess deserves to lose.”
- Harvey G. Clarke (Played by Will M.): A natural genius with hyper-intelligence and a knack for bioengineering, medicine, and gadgeteering with the ability to analyze genomes; loves spending all his free time in a library or research lab. Tagline: “I’ve read that.”
- Jamie J. “JJ” Billings (Played by Fred F.): TBA. Power: Hyper-Intelligence.
Session Recaps
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 1 – Trapped
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 2 – We’re Doing Science To It
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 3 – Just a Bunch of Regular Kids
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 4 – Regular Kids….Right?
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 5 – Maximum Clown…Void…Austin…Woe
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 6 – Maximum Feesh…Wrestling…Raccoon
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 7 – Burning Out the Day
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 8 – There Are More of Us?
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 9 – Maximum Heist
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 10 – Maximum Consequences
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 11 – Maximum Tech
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 12 – Maximum Sadness
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 13 – Maximum Teeth
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 14 – Maximum Harmonica
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 15 – Maximum Dragon
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 16 – Maximum Rescue
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 17 – Maximum Vacation
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 19 – Maximum Bowling
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 20 – Maximum Grudge
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 21 – Maximum Sneaking
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 22 – Maximum Scotch Tape
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 23 – Maximum Munich
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 24 – Maximum Paree!
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 25 – Maximum Chocolate!
- AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 26 – Maximum Sacrifice
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 1 – Maximum Breakout
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 2 – Maximum Robot
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 3 – Maximum Safety
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 4 – Maximum Bada-Boom
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 5 – Maximum Battle
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 6 – Maximum Dust
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 7 – Maximum Breakfast
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 8 – Maximum Monsters
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 9 – Maximum Dark
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 10 – Maximum Radio
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 11 – Maximum Patterns
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 12 – Maximum Time Travel
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 13 – Maximum Secrets
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 14 – Maximum Metaphysical Bengay
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 15 – Maximum Randos in the Street
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 16 – Maximum Planning
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 17 – Maximum Effort
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 18 – Maximum Bloodlines
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 19 – Maximum Library
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 20 – Maximum Dimensionality
- AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 21 – Maximum Kaiju
D-Team
The concept for D-Team was the team trying to get an old stranger to New York in an effort to prevent a second apocalypse after one of them had a vision.
Blog Entries
Cast
- Alexander (played by Daniel Dover): 6’ 4’’, 225 lbs. Tall and muscular with a gleaming smile. He has almost iridescent white hair and faintly golden skin. Exudes a calm, quiet confidence, and moves with the grace of a dancer. Literally inhumanly attractive. He’s strong, fast, durable, indefatigable, and has some matter control powers. Cares about everybody and everything.
- Eddie (played by Rich B.): 6’, 180 lbs. Outwardly disheveled looking, but his scruffy furs hide high quality gear underneath. Fairly average looking with reddish brown hair and a bit of stubble. Carries an enormous backpack but doesn’t seem too slowed by it, despite a slight limp, a pulls a trailer behind him made from the rear end of an old ford mustang. Honest, forthright and reliable, but won’t speak too much about his past. He seems to have a sixth sense for monsters and the dark fog.
- Jacob “Doc” (played by Anders S.): 6’, 150 lbs. Kinda lanky with leathery, weathered skin and greying hair, offset by piercing blue eyes. He’s compassionate, responsible, and very careful with his words. Dreams of building a place where metahumans can live unprosecuted. Has some healing powers. Followed by a 45 pound cat, that flies and leaves a rainbow trail behind it. Yes, really.
- Kurst “Kurt” Vetrson (played by Antoni Ten Monrós): 6’ 4’’, 110 lbs. Wears layers and layers of clothing, but underneath them he’s anorexically thin and very pale. He always feels slightly cold to the touch, but despite the layers isn’t actually bothered by the cold. Young and usually speaks fairly coarsely. Absolutely hates wendigo. Has ice powers that he doesn’t like to use because they’re not fully under his control. Good with a bow.
- Dr. Nicodemus “Nick” Faust (played by Hal Batty): 6’ 4’’, 180 lbs. Tall and lean. Flaming red hair, chalk white skin, and coal black eyes. Also literally inhumanly attractive, and his charms work on men and women alike. Wears a dark charcoal suit with crimson waistcoat and cravat, with a long black overcoat, even in the midst of a blizzard. Has an arrogant smile on his lips, only offset by an intensity to his eyes. Master of magic
Session Recaps
- Aeon D-Team S01E01 – Castles in the Ice
- Aeon D-Team S01E02 – Meet the Fausts
- Aeon D-Team S01E03 – Winds of Change
- Aeon D-Team S01E04 – Pimp My Ride
- Aeon D-Team S01E05 – Fun Guy
E-Team
Cast
- Johnathan Finn aka N0va (played by Christopher D.): A Cyberpath with a digital mind and a timid streak. Perhaps the least combat inclined of the group and prefers to find alternate means of getting past his enemies.. Tagline: “He’s no saint.”
- Ruby Rhyolite aka Terra (played by Emily Smirle): A geologist with the power to control the very Earth, and a scatter-brain. Ruby is bold and by the books, even when her books are all over the place and she can’t find the one she wants. Tagline: “If it needs a shovel, I’m all about it!”
- Jane Doe aka Stitch (played by Dorien): Dead(?) and loving it. Reanimator meets Rocky. The de facto team leader since she questions the least and always comes back. Tagline: “Don’t worry, I didn’t need that part anyways.”
- The Ghost (played by Travis Ellis)
- Evan Grey aka Bone Daddy (played by Will M.): A college dropout with a temper, Evan enjoys using his bone manipulation powers to rough people up, followed by using his mostly forgotten medical training to patch them up. Tagline: “Stop resisting. It’ll hurt less”
Session Recaps
- AEON E-Team: Season 1, Session 1 – Those Are Not Transistors
- AEON E-Team: Season 1, Session 2 – Librarians, Why Did It Have to Be Librarians
- AEON E-Team: Season 1, Session 3 – Putting Stuff in Other Stuff
- AEON E-Team: Season 1, Session 4 – Timey Bubbles
- AEON E-Team: Season 1, Session 5 – City of Lights
E1-Team
Cast
- Allison Bell aka Apex (played by Devin)
- Billy Ray Husley aka Hux (played by “Nose”)
- Connor Bell aka Boombox (played by Owen)
- Jack A. “JR” Richards, Jr. aka Electro (played by Scott F.)
- Neuron-134899 aka Nero (played by Merlin A.)
- Soar (played by Annabelle)
Session Recaps
- AEON E1-Team: Season 1, Session 1 – Mr. Blue Sky
- AEON E1-Team: Season 1, Session 2 – Don’t Stop Believen’
- AEON E1-Team: Season 1, Session 3 – Skulls
- AEON E1-Team: Season 1, Session 4 – Enemy
- AEON E1-Team: Season 1, Session 5 – Low
- AEON E1-Team: Season 1, Session 6 – Thunderstruck
- AEON E1-Team: Season 1, Session 7 – Two Tears
- AEON E1-Team: Season 1, Session 8 – Mad About Macarons
- AEON E1-Team: Season 1, Session 9 – Starry Nights
- AEON E1-Team: Season 1, Session 10 – Getting Murky
- AEON E1-Team: Season 1, Session 11 – Heroes Gotta Hero
- AEON E1-Team: Season 1, Session 12 – Stars Fall Home
- AEON E1-Team: Season 1, Session 13 – New York, New York
- AEON E1-Team: Season 1, Session 14 – The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
V-Team
The concept for V-Team was the team protecting the city they’ve grown to love while trying to live a normal life at the same time.
Blog Entries
Cast
- Ciera A. Maeweather aka Weather Girl (played by Christian Gelacio): Considered the weather manipulator (and News Channel 4’s meteorologist). Ciera can control the local weather in a variety of ways including earthquakes and the oceans. Highly trained original member of the Valiants and master of Capoeira.
- Sigyn A. “Ginny” Locke aka Valkyrie (played by L.A.): Original member of the Valiants. Team captain of the second response team. Battlesuit wearing pyro- and chronokinetic with multiple secondary abilities including Savant capabilities, flexible bones, immunity to mental control, an “awe” aura, and the ability to “summon” her possessions (which is how she gets in her battlesuit).
- Janos K. “John” Nemonovich aka Doctor Mnemonic (played by Troia L.): Incredibly intelligent savant from another reality (which experienced the TAP during the late 1800s vs. late 1900s). Immortal with a perfect memory and eternally youthful body. Wears a costume with a “steampunk” aesthetic.
- Sophia O. Saki aka Silkworm (played by Natiel L.): Mute fabric-controlling metahuman. Secondary abilities includes telepathic bond with identical sisters (they were triplets) and “forgetfulness” aura (people can’t remember her). Her signature ability is to manipulate fabric to produce strong “tendrils.”