PATRONS
Patrons is our reoccurring superhero genre setting. The world was forever changed in 1938 with the arrival of the world's first superhero. Since then, there has been several generations of heroes, each one greater than the last, shaping history and the very notion of what superheroing is. Nowadays most heroes are far too busy dealing with cosmic threats, leaving their cities under the protection of smaller heroes, sidekicks, and underfunded programs. Patrons is a collection of stories following a multigenerational superhero community, and how they see and influence the world.
DELINQUENT
HEROES
Delinquent Heroes follows a group of teens in Youth Z, a juvenile outreach program for super powered kids. Our introduction to the Patrons universe, follow Team Phoenix as they struggle to become partners and figure out what being a Hero is.
Delinquent Heroes is one of our favorite campaigns, and serves not only as a great introduction to the Patrons setting, but also is a great jumping on point to MXP as a whole!
System: Masks by Brendan Conway
Game Master: Rowan
The Players
Jamie: Brianna "Cotton Candy" Mills
Playbook: The Beacon
Age: 20
Pronouns: she/her
Bio: Brianna always wanted to be a hero, but struggled with not having a very stereotypically heroic power. She is brash and outgoing, but caring too. Her powers allow her to change the colors and designs of her body and anything she is touching like a chameleon.
Ris: Nari "Mirage" Moon
Playbook: The Nova
Age: 19
Pronouns: she/her
Bio: Nari Moon came from a relatively normal family, growing up in Lucky Heights. It wasn’t very long before she and her entire family figured out her own superpowered capabilities around the age of four. Her long-standing issues with anxiety resulted in her own telekinetic capabilities going out of control, which resulted in her placement in the YouthZ Program. This one accident resulted in Nari doubting her own capabilities and control over her telepathic and telekinetic powers, making her the perfect candidate for this unlikely ragtag group of heroes.
Riley: Lyle "Timberwolf" Lowe
Playbook: The Legacy
Age: 17
Pronouns: He/Him
Bio: The child and former sidekick of a legendary superhero, Lyle grew up a member of the super community, with a very strict idea of what heroics look like imparted to him by his family. Now looking to strike out on his own to become his own kind of hero, Lyle has signed up willingly for the YouthZ program. His powers are derived from a werewolf spirit, and gives him the abilities of a werewolf himself.
THIRDSTRINGERS
Thirdstringers is a slapstick mini series that follows young, C list supervillains as they struggle to gain notoriety and prove to the superhero community they should be taken seriously.
A small, three episode installment in Patrons. Far sillier and light hearted, more in the one shot style. This was recorded before Masks included more villainous playbook options, so the Playbook flavors have been rewritten pretty significantly since then.
System: Masks by Brendan Conway
Game Master: Riley
The Players
Rowan: Kosuke 'Dark Nega-King' Nakamura
Playbook: The Delinquent
Age: 14
Pronouns: he/him
Bio: Kosuke’s super-smarts first started appearing in the second grade when he took a tablet and changed his grades on the teacher’s computer so he wouldn't have to do an assignment, and has only got smarter and more confident since. Kosuke likes to dress up in HaraJuku fashion and cause trouble, seeing himself as the “main character”. He lives with his grandmother who moved away from Japan after getting too old to help fight the various kaiju there. Kosuke has established his team’s center of operations in her basement.
Jamie: 'Apollo'
Playbook: The Outsider
Age: Unknown
Pronouns: she/her
Bio: Apollo comes from an alien race that lives inside stars. Her name is not actually Apollo but she won't say her true name because she believes no one will be able to understand or pronounce it. She was supposed to be a foreign exchange student but she got a little lost and ended up rooming with Kosuke and Tiago while trying to find her way.
Ris: Tiago 'Meltdown' Sepúvelda
Playbook: The Legacy
Age: ~17/18
Pronouns: he/they
Bio: Santiago Sepúlveda, better known as Tiago, has come from a respectable hero family called The Keepers of Prosperity. However, due to the overwhelming pressure to live up to the family legacy and a disagreement in how to uphold one’s self, Tiago left the family and decided to lash out against their family in the best way they know how: to become a villain. While they haven’t gotten to the point of rebellion to truly tarnish their family legacy, they have found their group and are dead set on keeping them close.
Scion Elect is a short Monster of the Week style super hero mini campaign in which our heroes fight select villains every session gradually going up in the ranks of villainhood.
What happens when a top tier hero dies? What happens to the city they were protecting? Well that's what this campaign is about.
System: Just Heroes by James Mullen
Game Master: Jamie
SCION
ELECT
The Players
Riley: Laura 'Silver Bullet' Lowe
Playbook: The Claw
Age: 25
Pronouns: She/Her
Bio: The oldest daughter of Blood Moon. She’s traveled to Central Gate to assist with the transition, and has little interest in moving to the city. Instead, she hopes to inspire others to step up and find the Patron within themselves. She, like the rest of her family, battles crime with a suite of werewolf like supernatural abilities.
Ris: Chase ‘Dragonfly’ Skiyes
Playbook: The Paragon
Age: 24-26
Pronouns: he/him
Bio: A local hero given incredible enhanced capabilities due to an accident, Chase Skiyes has been helping citizens of his hometown for the past few years, helping manage the smaller aspects of crime that slips through the cracks from bigger threats. With Dr. Iconoclast’s sudden passing, Chase has decided to try to step up as the city’s hero to help fill the gap left behind by their patron’s passing.
Rowan: Vanessa 'The Eclipse' Torrid
Playbook: The Arcane
Age: 34/35, it's rude to ask a lady her age.
Pronouns: she/her
Bio: Vanessa was once a lowly henchman of another villain, who rose through the ranks and defected from them. She began to grow to become an up-and-coming supervillain, until one day, something happened to the promising villain that caused her to return, not entirely a different person, but with a new direction to her life. With a black streak on her past, Eclipse wants to do better now. Eclipse is hoping that becoming Central Gate’s patron will be big enough to shadow her turbulent history and that her similarity to Dr. Iconoclast will be a card in her hand towards gaining the people’s favor.
MYTHIC
TROOPERS
Mythic Troopers is a mini series that takes place in the fictional city of Toeda Japan, and follows three young employees of a cat café turned into colorful power suit superheroes. Explore more into the Patrons world on the other side of the planet from America, where Japan has its own CCWP members, powerful mechs, and giant kaiju.
This mini-series utilizes a rulebook that forgoes dice rolls and determines action based purely on roleplay, with a token mechanic that guarantees a future success for every failed action. Drawing from the nostalgia of classic dubbed and subbed Henshin/Sentai media, choreographed martial art fights, and rubber suit monsters, Mythic Troopers is an adventure narrated from the very hearts of the MXP crew.
System: Henshin by Tim Batiuk & Sam Kusek
Game Master: Rowan
The Players
Riley: Dewey Shore
Playbook: The Blue Trooper
Age: 18 years, four months, 15 days
Pronouns: he/him
Bio: DEWEY SHORE IS A REGULAR MAN JUST LIKE YOU. MANY PEOPLE ARE MOVED TO JAPAN UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES TO LIVE WITH THEIR GRANDMOTHER DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT, HE CERTAINLY DOESN'T. HE LIKES NUTRIENT PASTE AND EXERCISE, AND HAS MANY HOBBIES. SUCH AS DOING ACTIVITIES AND LEARNING INFORMATION.
Ris: Makoto 'Mako' Mishra
Playbook: The Green Trooper
Age: 19
Pronouns: Any
Bio:
Jamie: Angel Woods
Playbook: The Pink Trooper
Age: 17
Pronouns: he/they
Bio: Angel is a soft hearted boy with an effeminate style. He loves pastels, plants, animals, and his confused but doting mother. Due to being born with only one leg, he travels with the use of a prosthetic limb, but it's never stopped him from learning martial arts or jumping at any chance at light hearted fun. He will always accept a hug.
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