At The Mercy of The Ringmaster & The Circus of Death - Marvel Super Heroes Rpg The Golden Age Campaign - Session Report One

 Last week I got hte chance to sit in and play in DM Steve's Marvel Super Heroes Advanced Rpg Golden Age of Heroes rpg campaign. This week I got a chance to play in his World War II game that takes place around 1941. In this campaign the Nazi have moved far more swiftly then they did in the real world. This dragged the US into the World War II sooner. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because of the fact that the opportunity presented itself. 

Our party of enhanced masks got involved with an assignment from the Golden Age Batman( yes, our campaign mixes WWII DC comics and Marvel properties) about a series of high level pentagon murders of Army personel. We only found the constant being the fact that the Tiboldt circus was in all of the places where the various generals and army personel were murdered. An investigation by our party revealed that the Tiboldt Circus was heavily involved in hiring former criminals into it's ranks. And it turns out that the Circus had deep connections to the American Bundt who were helping to fund part of the circus. The PC's also found out that each of the operatives of the circus had extensive criminal records and ties to Nazi Germany. An investigation of the circus revealed that the circus had the  Missing Link who had primate-like features, midget Tommy Thumb; snake charmer Omar; strongman Zandow, and the Trapeze Trio.And then there's the fact that the Ring Master Fritz Tiboldt was using a variation of Batman's foe 'Mad Hatter''s technology that had been transformed by Nazi Germany. 

The Ringmaster had both the mind control technology and an electrified whip. And this was a bit unexpected for the PC's. They were captured by the circus and made into mind controlled slaves. Will the player's PC's escape from the circus's facilities? 
This a slight modification of Marvel Super Heroes The Golden Age by Keith Kilburn supplement by the Marvel Super Heroes RPG: The Unofficial Canon Project. 

The Marvel Super Heroes The Golden Age is available in the group's file section in the Facebook group. 

The players weren't expecting the mind control aspect of the Ringmaster. But this wasn't the first time that the PC's have faced the Circus Death. They appear on page 251 of The Marvel Super Heroes Golden Age book sans the mind control technology. 

The Ringmaster.

Art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.