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[Digital Hellhound]

I have a huge soft spot for Weird/Magic 30 Years War settings, so I kinda love it (and have done something in that vein myself). You get your inklings of the modern era (newspapers! propaganda! global trade! science! weird laws and philosophies!) without losing all that old world charm (religious fanaticism! dynastic struggles! superstition! weird laws and philosophies!), and then you get to add weird stuff like magic or time traveling Americans or alternate worlds. What's not to love?

I just hope your players are into it - it's not the most popular time period or setting out there.

[scriver]

The dude was a genius of warfare,

* Gustav Adolf, genius of warfare, gets lost in in the fog and runs towards the enemy army thinking it's his own soldiers

[Jimmy]

Fog of war is a bitch.

I'm trying to come up with a catchy acronym for my "Magic S.W.A.T. Team" campaign idea, but so far I'm drawing a blank. Something like C.O.P.S. or G.U.A.R.D. or something. Need to give it some more thought. I'm planning on using a 'payday' system of reward whereby the players get their wealth by level in installments after successful missions rather than just by looting corpses. I'm also thinking of adding a system that lets them be 'on the take' from various organizations, where they can add additional wealth to their pay, from 1% up, but they have to roll percentile each payday and risk getting that pay reduced by the amount they're getting on the side instead if they're busted.

[scriver]

A.E.G.I.S: Arcane Eerie Guard InsatsStyrk

W.A.R.D: Weaponized Arcane Reinforcement Division

[IcyTea31]

W.I.Z.C.O.P.S
Wizardly Intervention against Zealous Crypt, Oubliette & Prison Sorties

[Digital Hellhound]

W.A.T.C.H: Wizard Active Tactical Crisis Host.

S.H.I.E.L.D: Sorcerous High-Impact Escalation Law Directorate.

L.A.W: Legal Assault Wizards.

J.U.S.T.I.C.E: Joint Unnatural Service: Tactical Initiative for Cataclysmic Exigencies.

S.P.E.L.L: Special Police Extranatural Legion (Light).

This is fun!

[Harry Baldman]

C.R.A.S.H. - Community Resources Against Supernatural Hoodlums

Comes with a seedy history of corruption and extralegal activity already bundled in!

[smjjames]

Maybe let your players come up with one? Unless they expect you to make the name.

[Sirus]

T. O. M. E. - Tactical Operations - Magical Enforcement

IRS - Infernal Repulsion Squad

A.E.G.I.S: Arcane Eerie Guard InsatsStyrk

W.A.R.D: Weaponized Arcane Reinforcement Division

W.A.R.D. is probably the best so far.

[smjjames]

What setting is it though? Cyberpunky? medieval tech fantasy? Not sure how much the tech level should affect the acronym, but it could give ideas. Not that the thread is short on ideas.

[IcyTea31]

C.I.A.
Center for Investigations to the Arcane

G.E.N.D.A.R.M.E.R.I.E.
General Enterprise for National Development of Arcane Responsibility, Miracle Enforcement & Removal of Infernal Entities

[smjjames]

Don't you guys think that using acronyms identical to real world ones (like CIA and IRA) would break the immersion?

[IcyTea31]

That depends on how comedic the campaign is. A good satire can make a campaign (though a poor one can break it).

[Kadzar]

Since we're doing this, here's some. They may not all work for your specific squad, but could possibly work for other divisions in the same organization or world in general:

O.R.B.
Oracular Reconnaissance Bureau (First one I thought of. Probably not fitting for the PCs, but would make sense somewhere in the world.)

S.W.O.R.D.
Strategic Wizard Operations and Reconnaissance Division

S.T.A.V.E.S.
Specialized Tactical Arcane Violence Enforcement Squad

W.A.N.D.
Weaponized Arcane National Defense

[heydude6]

T.O.T.E.M

Tactical Operations Targeting Evil Magic

EDIT:

alternatively

Tactical Operations Targeting Evil with Magic