Kids on Bikes Maurepas

This game will be based on the Starship Maurepas Module in Kids on Bikes Deluxe Edition / Strange Adventures #1, with expansions and customization.

Game time is somewhat Europe-friendly but not Asia friendly. GM is west coast USA.

Game World Summary

Maurepas, Louisiana, a small town that is fairly isolated and is a very boring place to live unless you like to hunt, fish, or hike in the swampy forest, or have wealthy parents to make your individual house less boring. Maurepas has a much higher average wealth but no bigger or less isolated than its earth prime counterpart. Most of the middle and upper class adult residents in this earth's Maurepas are working for oil companies or for scientific research facilities (secret lab, etc..).

Set on a parallel earth very similar to earth prime. Big oil has had their way a lot more and oil is cheaper, cars bigger, and more supersonic airline flights. Information and electronics technology is 10 years behind earth prime for sophistication and 20 years behind for miniaturization and refinement, while space travel, power, and propulsion technology is 20-30 years ahead.

Powered character is up in the air. Will establish later, with player input. Will be introduced after a few sessions. Had a vote, response was weak, but favored a Kollok 1991 style powered character arrangement (All PCs become a powered character to some degree).

The town is currently under serious military-enforced quarantine due to an illegal dumping and escape of a laboratory-cooked disease pathogen.

Current Party
All Female party not required, but is the player-driven trend

• Becky - Female (F player) - Age 13, 8th grade, Kid - Loner Weirdo (custom, std array) - Master manipulator
• Kore Finch - Female (F player) - Age 14, 9th grade, Kid - Scout (custom, std array) - Curious loner wilderness explorer
• Christine Ravenwood - Female (M player) - Age 13, 8th grade, Kid - Brutish jock (full custom) - Daredevil loner
• Lil Osborne - Female (M player) - Age 14, 11th grade, Teen - Brilliant Mathlete / Scout (full custom) - Nature loving medical genius
• Tick - Male (M player) - Age 16, 11th grade, Teen - Bully / Hick - Non-psychopathic / thug bully

Former PCs

• Lleucu - Female (M player) - Age 10, 5th grade, Kid - Loner Weirdo (stock as-is) - Occultist / Magic / Conspiracy
• Tiffany Heart - Female (M player) - Age 16, 11th grade, Teen - Plastic Beauty (custom, std array) - Richest most powerful girl in town
• Benny Smith - Male (M player) - Age 13, 8th grade, Kid - Brilliant Mathlete (full custom) - Nerd
• Felix Donovan - Male (M player) - Age 17, 12th grade, Teen - Loner Weirdo (custom, std array) - Wallflower poor-family-supporter

Using many (not all) of the Kids on Bikes character creation house rule options that HyperRPG's Kollok 1991 is using (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IdoMlDcXhc&list=PLHKocVDXoWBv-W7qjSmkQnvk6et6wqeJ2&index=2).

See World Background and Character Creation Rules / House Rules threads for more information. All ages welcome. I have experience with and have no issue GMing a mixed group of high school, college / young adult, adult, and middle age players.

In current state of campaign, new characters have a few 'factions' to choose from - disciple of the lich, Lleucu (basic / cure-only or premium / immortal), an ally of Tiffany (regarded as a villain by most of the party), part of the youth militia, or unaffiliated. Warning: PC parents and very young siblings dead or dying from plague, dictated by age, exposure / hygiene, and GM-dice. PCs outside of the 12-24 age range have decent chance to be impaired with sickness.

I am running this game very improv. Kids on Bikes is particularly designed for seat of the pants improv-GMing and also facilitates player-involved setting customization and player-involved storytelling. Not going gun-ho on maps or anything but will re-use maps and NPC tokens I have used in my Mutants & Masterminds campaigns, if relevant - predominantly ripped google maps and photographic theme backdrop maps..

Kids on Bikes is a very RP-heavy system. You will be playing mundane, mildly above average characters. The GM's main background is superhero RPGs, and therefore is much more fluid and adaptable and less railroading than the average Pathfinder / D&D DM.

Each applicant post their application in a new topic (separate threads for each applicant).

Audio will be on Discord.

Kids on Bikes Trope Playbook (in character sheet format)
https://c82a8da0-3920-4d05-98f5-f97807ab8596.filesusr.com/ugd/85013f_28569403238f47f0861a67ecac549df8.pdf
You don't have to use the tropes as-is. You can customize a trope, or come up with a fully custom trope. Just choose the most relavant trope for question purposes (tweak questions for your character if needed). You can fully customize the {Fight, Brains,Charm,Flight,Brawn,Grit} array. See character creation rules thread for more info.

Fillable Character Sheet PDF. There is also a character sheet in Roll20.
https://c82a8da0-3920-4d05-98f5-f97807ab8596.filesusr.com/ugd/3e98ae_966e7764922e45a79127ced1b9fb0d7b.pdf

System is simple enough to not need the books, but if you want to get them.

Kids on BIkes Core Rulebook ($10)
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/231938/Kids-on-Bikes-Core-Rulebook

Strange Adventures Volume One ($5)
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/266582/Strange-Adventures-Volume-One

Strange Adventures Volume Two ($5)
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/290354/Strange-Adventures-Volume-Two

Kids on BIkes - Free RPG Day Edition (Free / Demo)
https://c82a8da0-3920-4d05-98f5-f97807ab8596.filesusr.com/ugd/ca73bb_b58d4305c20d4fbfa35e4f7c6fb37ceb.pdf

Kids on Bikes - Ashcan Edition (Alternate, older Free / Demo)
https://c82a8da0-3920-4d05-98f5-f97807ab8596.filesusr.com/ugd/ca73bb_0a53f5e010434adcb71272fe38ef7821.pdf

Kids on Bikes - House on Poplar Court (Free; Adventure for free RPG Day Edition)
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/290352/Kids-on-Bikes--House-on-Poplar-Court

Teens in Space ($10)
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/285845/Teens-in-Space-Core-Rulebook