Years ago, way back in the year 19XX, globe trotting banana magnate and adventure enthusiast Faintly Audacious founded, in the small town of Bliss Coast, the Audacious Exemplary Academy For Gifted Youngsters, Troubled Ne're Do Wells, and Assorted Children Of The Surrounding Countryside. It soon took on a different name, however, owing to the state of the art facilities most striking feature: the beautiful Banana Blossom trees planted around the outside that coated the ground with their striking yellow blossoms and filled the air with a sweet, fruity smell. Faintly never told anyone where she'd acquired these strange, one of a kind trees, but insisted that they had magical properties and would bring good fortune and prosperity for as long as they bloomed.
The course of years seems to have proven Faintly's ramblings about the magic of the trees true. As the academy continued to produce the likes of captains of industry, brave adventures, movie stars, and genius scientists the town of Bliss Coast quickly transformed into the largest city on the eastern seaboard. Now it is the year 20XX and you are attending Mystical Banana Blossom Academy, either as a student of member of the faculty, and though the constant banana smell wore on you at first it eventually just became part of the background of school life. That is, until you walked in one morning and noticed a weird, sickly sweet fragrance that wasn't there before and that the edges of the blossoms had to begun to brown just a little.
If you're still here, welcome. For a while I've been thinking about running something inspired by Anime Campaign, an actual play tabletop campaign on Twitch.tv run by Warpedlamp and a bunch of other really creative people. They're ability to play off one another is what kept me watching, but what hooked me initially was the concept they used for their anime superpowers.
In the world of Anime Campaign around 1 in 30 people are born with a Epithet, a word at their core which gives them power. An epithet can be any word and epithet users power is mostly based on how creative they are with interpreting it. For example, the epithet "Soup," seems like really dumb one but it lets its user not only throw boiling globs of soup at people, but also control steam and heal the sick. This gives the character a amount of wiggle room in how they intemperate their power, which is good because epithets are traditionally rolled randomly using a random word generator like this one (That's actually how I got the title). You don't have to do that, of course. You don't even have to play epithet user if you like. Normal people are more than capable of keeping up with them with hot blood and dedication. This is, after all, shonen anime.
The course of years seems to have proven Faintly's ramblings about the magic of the trees true. As the academy continued to produce the likes of captains of industry, brave adventures, movie stars, and genius scientists the town of Bliss Coast quickly transformed into the largest city on the eastern seaboard. Now it is the year 20XX and you are attending Mystical Banana Blossom Academy, either as a student of member of the faculty, and though the constant banana smell wore on you at first it eventually just became part of the background of school life. That is, until you walked in one morning and noticed a weird, sickly sweet fragrance that wasn't there before and that the edges of the blossoms had to begun to brown just a little.
If you're still here, welcome. For a while I've been thinking about running something inspired by Anime Campaign, an actual play tabletop campaign on Twitch.tv run by Warpedlamp and a bunch of other really creative people. They're ability to play off one another is what kept me watching, but what hooked me initially was the concept they used for their anime superpowers.
In the world of Anime Campaign around 1 in 30 people are born with a Epithet, a word at their core which gives them power. An epithet can be any word and epithet users power is mostly based on how creative they are with interpreting it. For example, the epithet "Soup," seems like really dumb one but it lets its user not only throw boiling globs of soup at people, but also control steam and heal the sick. This gives the character a amount of wiggle room in how they intemperate their power, which is good because epithets are traditionally rolled randomly using a random word generator like this one (That's actually how I got the title). You don't have to do that, of course. You don't even have to play epithet user if you like. Normal people are more than capable of keeping up with them with hot blood and dedication. This is, after all, shonen anime.
