I've suddenly got an idea

[thebitterguy]

I'm contemplating putting together a game where the PCs are members of a secret society based on or inspired by the Green Lanterns.

I mean, a distinctive ring, an oath, and distant superiors would be cool.

Maybe as a sort of Baker St Irregulars for the GL of a particularly busy sector (you know, one with fewer than four Lanterns).

Or it works well as a Steampunk setting type thing.

edit: The popular perception of the Freemasons also had no small influence on the idea.

Comments

[kinesys.livejournal.com]

Their hangout: The Diogenes Club. Natch.

[thebitterguy]

Perfect. PERFECT.

[tfbretz.livejournal.com]

In deepest fog,
In darkest murk,
We within the shadows lurk.
Shunning fame's revealing light,
Secretly, we make things right.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

FTW

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

I would have put "in lamplight's glare" in there somewhere, but yeah, that's nice.

[heronymus-waat.livejournal.com]

That's VERY COOL.

Ignoti Et Quasi Occulti, indeed.

[artbroken.livejournal.com]

So... Freemasons, then.

[thebitterguy]

...

You know, you'd think I would have mentioned that the Masons were the other half of the inspiration, yeah.

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

E.E. 'Doc' Smith's Lensmen series.

::B::

[barkman.livejournal.com]

Online Game?

I like tfbretz's motto.

[thebitterguy]

Nah. Maybe a con game.

[crashing-angel.livejournal.com]

Oh, too awesome :D

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Progressive Conservatives?

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

The Order of the Emerald Star? Celadon (http://www.answers.com/topic/celadon-color) Society for Gentlemen? The Circle of the Jade Eye? I'unno.

[thebitterguy]

Although I suspect making them an Islamic group might be an idea. Islamic Green is very nice.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

he rings could come in a set of five, each with different powers.

[thebitterguy]

And they could fight a chinaman who had a set of ten rings, each with a different power.

[uhlrik.livejournal.com]

let's not forget the evil pimp with one big four-finger ring...

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

And an evil midget!

[heronymus-waat.livejournal.com]

I've been running a supers game based in an alternate-universe Victorian London and it's been both a lot of fun and a huge research project.

My secret society shadows the British Royal Society, but for "superlatives", people with powers. At this point, after a bit of turnover, we have a costume designer (gageteer), a demon-possessed upper-class first-son-in-hiding (the EB), and a disgraced RA Cavalry officer (Brick). There were a couple other members in "Committee 47", but sadly the War has been hard on the roster (the werewolf got silvered, the ghost mystic was exorcised, and the faerie was killed by an iron cannon round).