The Big Event Game

The "Big Event" game is my current campaign. It is set in the present day, in El Paso, Texas and the surrounding lands. Some aspects of the world have been capriciously changed for plot convenience. The basic idea for this game came from the campaign a GM of mine, Alan Hoch, ran in Albuquerque in the early 1990's. In Alan's game magick and magickal creatures had always existed in the world, but remained hidden from the general populace until certain Non-Player Characters took precipitous actions. I liked this idea of 20th century culture having to come to grips with obvious, undeniable magick.

My own take on how and why this took place is very different from Alan Hoch's. In my world, while magick and some supernatural creatures existed before the "Big Event," they were all at a very low power level. Magick was primarily ritualized -- long hours of casting intricate spells for subtle results. No "blast 'em" type bolts-o-fire magick at all. Magick had been fading from the world since the beginnings of the scientific and industrial revolutions, taking the denizens of Faerie and other mysterious worlds with it. In March of 1998, however, all this changes. A large asteroid (or so it seems) enters the earth's atmosphere at a high latitude. Fortunately it breaks up as it does so, and small bits of it come down across the northern hemisphere. Almost nothing of any size reaches the surface of the planet. All that is found at the impact sites in the following days is some strange, irridescent dust. But in the wake of the meteor shower strange things begin to happen, and magick seems to be returning to the world. Why? There is a reason, but I'm not going to post it here. You never know where your Players may end up. If you are a GM who is curious, just e-mail me and I'll explain what's going on behind the scenes.

To see something about the NPCs for the Big Event Game, follow this link to the Character Page. Warning: That page is coming to life slowly. There isn't much there right now, but there should be over the next month or so. For other world and event information, check out the list below: