LSH

This is the page for the LSH PbEM (Earth 10 Legion of Superheroes) game as restarted in September 2019.

Introduction

This campaign’s central conceit a group of 30th century teenagers realize that their species (or origin event) abilities could be seen as super-powers, and inspired by the legends of Superboy/Superman, they start a super-hero club. They are earnest and steadfast and true, showing great courage, resourcefulness and loyalty to each other. Being teenagers, the team bristles with internal romances and conflicts built on a core of friendship and trust. One theme of the game is “when everyone has powers, some people are heroes.”

Over time the Legion proves to be effective. They go from being the local kids who sometimes help authorities (ala young adult fiction) to acting as an adjunct to law enforcement to becoming a linchpin of the United Planets defenses over the course of their career. We start at the beginning with the mid-century YA fiction vibe. The culture of the 2990’s (1000 years in the future of when Clark Kent was a teenager – Superman does not appear on Earth 10 until November 2008) grants the same maturity and autonomy to teenagers as the mid-century United States did: 15-year-old sapiens are make cross-planet treks unaccompanied, leaving depressed planets to look for work, and can to find a patron to fund their own super-hero club as a combined academy and profession requiring limited adult supervision. This is seen as praiseworthy behavior.

Campaign Setting Details

Legionnaires

The Founders

Later Members

The Substitutes

Failed Applicants

So far, we have seen the following people try out for the Legion but fail to get in, and not go on to found/join the Substitute Heroes.

Gyroscope Lad (Super-Balancing): Twidd Davi hails from the colony of Malon, where they live on top of small plateaus in high wind.
Lucy Skydiamond (psychotropic kaleidoscopic aura): after her father ascended to a higher plane when she was conceived, she was born able to project an aura that induces revelations and hallucinations.
Ant Princess (ant control): a Wynathian girl of unknown origin, she can control her pet ant, Anty. Just that one ant. That’s it.

Legion of Super-Heroes: The Action Comics Back Ups

These stories represent the earliest days of the Earth 10 Legion, back when they were an 8-page backup feature in Action Comics. Action held the adventures of Superman in out space or in other times, so when fans requested the re-introduction of the Legion into the Earth 10 setting this was the logical book to hold them. After one year as backup players they would graduate to whole book status in Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, the groundwork for the sprawling universe of the LSH having been laid out in these bite-sized stories.