Campaign Structures

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Monster of the Week

The foundational campaign structure. Individual scenarios focus on a specific threat or incident: something is happening, the characters investigate, they identify the threat, they resolve it. Scenarios can be nearly self-contained or can develop ongoing threads across sessions. The organization infrastructure, employer, resource source, institutional constraint, provides structure for how characters encounter threats and with what authority they operate.

Monster of the Week campaigns work at Street or Regional power levels (6D and 9D generation packages). Characters are effective against standard threats and have to work hard against elites. The ongoing world develops through the accumulation of resolved cases and their unresolved margins.

Conspiracy Arc

A sustained investigation into a hidden-world actor or pattern operating at a scale that individual case work keeps touching without fully surfacing. The conspiracy provides the season-level structure: individual scenarios advance pieces of the larger picture while providing self-contained threat resolution. The conspiracy is revealed incrementally, each scenario provides information that recontextualizes previous events and advances the characters toward confrontation with whatever is behind the pattern.

Conspiracy Arc campaigns work at Regional or National power levels (9D and 12D). The threats scale with the conspiracy's scope. The organizations are involved in the conspiracy, aware of it, or actively suppressing knowledge of it.

Apocalypse Now

A campaign built around a large-scale threat to the Veil, to ordinary society, or to the hidden world's internal stability. The stakes are existential or near-existential. The threat is beyond what any single organization can address and requires coalition-building, information synthesis, and direct confrontation with something significantly beyond standard threat categories. These campaigns are built for National-level characters (12D) and are expected to be the culmination of significant prior play.