D.T. Pints
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Post by D.T. Pints on Jan 1, 2014 20:48:14 GMT -8
Never fear sir...threads get picked up and dropped all the time. If you keep putting stuff in it, eventually someone will figure a way to relate back to THE THREAD (that shall not be named less we anger the caged marsupial).
I have several potential "cadavers" to put here. One of which is my planned playtest of Stu's Moment of Truth game...but like the fine high art film Reanimator...I refuse to let this idea go gently into the night.
So, before I pile on the corpses I will make one more stab at trying to make my creation LIVE! Thread to follow...
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sbloyd
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Post by sbloyd on Jan 2, 2014 19:16:17 GMT -8
When I started 4E D&D, I loved the fluff, particularly the teleportation circles ritual and the "points of light" thing. So I had planned accelerating the setting into a more wasteland-ish thing, resources are scarce, parties are sent into the wastes, but they're not coming back.
So the city elders decide to try using the teleportation circle in the College of Magic.
Essentially, I was thinking of making it like Stargate, crossed with Mad Max, set in semi-traditional D&D 4e.
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sbloyd
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Post by sbloyd on Jan 2, 2014 19:29:37 GMT -8
More GURPS Infinite Worlds crossover fun, mixed with some Necessary Evil.
The players are supervillains in ultra max security prison. One evening, two minutes after lights out, the PCs find themselves teleported into a ring of light in a boundless dark room (a la the trial of Zod and his cronies in Superman 2). The Infinity Patrol has a problem, and the PCs are the solution.
On a neighboring timeline, the equivalent of the Justice League have disappeared. The statistics guys at Infinity say that unless that role can be properly filled, the worldline will shift away from Homeline. That's where the PCs come in:
The missing Justice-ish League are alternate-world versions of the PCs. The Patrol is offering the villains, essentially, a pardon for their crimes - if they will fill the role of the missing heroes.
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sbloyd
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Post by sbloyd on Jan 3, 2014 4:47:43 GMT -8
Can't take credit for this one, but it's one I rather like...
The Knights of the Round Table as a medieval superhero team.
That's pretty much it. You wouldn't even need to add the super-powers - those are already in there. You might not know it if you're only familiar with the cleaned-up modern versions, but some of the older legends attribute the weirdest abilities to the Knights. Sir Kay, for example, is said to have had the ability to grow to giant size; Sir Bedivere openly practiced sorcery (and had an accordingly sinister reputation, more than once saved from being hanged as a witch only by King Arthur's testimony to his good character); and Sir Marrock was an honest-to-gods werewolf.
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sbloyd
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Post by sbloyd on Jan 3, 2014 13:56:08 GMT -8
We all love Firefly, which essentially puts some Old West into Traveller. How about the reverse? Put some Traveller in the Old West. Firefly meets Barsoom. All the planets and moons of the solar system are habitable, in those old pulpy ways (jungle swamp Venus, tundra desert Mars, etc), and your flying tramp steamer really does run on steam.
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oldnemrod
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Post by oldnemrod on Jan 5, 2014 1:10:40 GMT -8
Hook with Robin Williams is on right now. Gave me the idea of a World of Darkness game of going to Neverland because The Pan is doing a harder draft into his war with Captain Hook. Maybe treat The War like Vietnam? Lord of the Flies without the rescue ending?
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Post by kaitoujuliet on Jan 5, 2014 11:05:12 GMT -8
I've had an idea kicking around for ages and ages, but I just can't figure out how to make it work: the Realms of the Senses. There would be five adventure areas, each based on a different sense (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell). Each would have threats that target the applicable sense, and PCs would have to combat each threat in appropriate ways--not just "I hit the nasty smell with my sword." In more extreme moments, I've thought of having each realm consist ONLY of stimuli for the appropriate sense, but that's an even bigger headache. (How would PCs communicate with each other in the Realm of Smell, for example?)
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sbloyd
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Post by sbloyd on Jan 5, 2014 11:14:20 GMT -8
I've had an idea kicking around for ages and ages, but I just can't figure out how to make it work: the Realms of the Senses. There would be five adventure areas, each based on a different sense (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell). Each would have threats that target the applicable sense, and PCs would have to combat each threat in appropriate ways--not just "I hit the nasty smell with my sword." In more extreme moments, I've thought of having each realm consist ONLY of stimuli for the appropriate sense, but that's an even bigger headache. (How would PCs communicate with each other in the Realm of Smell, for example?) It would depend on the system and setting, I think. Something like this would be an interesting set of quests to the Spirit World in Mage, for example. A lot would depend on whether the PCs knew they were going there ahead of time... if I were going to the realm of Scents, I would raid my spice rack before going.
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Post by kaitoujuliet on Jan 6, 2014 10:54:11 GMT -8
It would depend on the system and setting, I think. Something like this would be an interesting set of quests to the Spirit World in Mage, for example. Yes, that makes sense. Mostly, I'm stuck on how to describe it to the group, rather than how to model it mechanically. Or at least, I'd have to figure out the descriptions before even trying to do the mechanical stuff.
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Post by kaitoujuliet on Jan 7, 2014 10:21:18 GMT -8
Hmm, maybe I'd make it so that all five senses operate in all the realms, but one is intensely magnified, while the others are dimmed...so PCs could still talk to each other in the realms other than hearing, but they'd have to stay close or risk getting out of earshot. That kind of thing.
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sbloyd
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Post by sbloyd on Jan 7, 2014 16:12:30 GMT -8
Here's another one scraped off of the rpg.net forums, but it's too devious, too evil not to share:
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Post by maxinstuff on Jan 7, 2014 16:26:07 GMT -8
Aaaaahaaaa that's fantastic
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sbloyd
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Post by sbloyd on Jan 10, 2014 11:52:08 GMT -8
In 10.01 thee was a mail about someone wanting to make a game featuring all the Santa Claus characters from cultures around the world, teamed together to stop Krampus from wrecking Christmas. Stu brought up that doing it in savage worlds would be a bad idea, since the powers there are "Samey" thus every character would be verrrry similar. So, take a page from the Dead Presidents. Just give each one -a- power associated with them. Say Krampus has used some ritual to siphon off the powers of Saint Nick, leaving them all weakened. So you might have one who is a super speedster, one who can teleport (line of sight, mainly used for chimneys), one who is a gadgeteer/macguyver type, and so on. This is also kind of where I had the idea that tyler might be able to have the Defeated Presidential Runner Ups go up against the Dead Presidents... By having siphoned off the powers of the Elect to give themselves abilities.
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sbloyd
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Post by sbloyd on Jan 11, 2014 16:10:11 GMT -8
BACK ALLEYS
Space and time fold. A big enough fold could hide a city... a city connected to other worlds, other times through congruences between the narrow alleyways of The City and other places. The PCs are a group of adventurers, drifters, outcasts and thieves that each found their way to The City... an empty, abandoned place built by unknown hands as a hub of transport throughout the multiverse. But the congruence gateways have started to fail, and dark shadowy... things... have been sighted moving through the back alleys of The City.
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Post by sbloyd on Jan 11, 2014 16:16:22 GMT -8
ORGAN DONOR The last memory each PC has is passing out, going to sleep, being in a car accident or suchlike in the years between 1993 and 2021 - now waking up housed in a combat mech body about to make drop on Surtur IV. The first attempts at using AI combat mecha were abysmal failures, until some bright young lass thought to overlay human engrams over the positronic framework of the AI mind. The PC group's engrams were recorded from cryo-frozen brains harvested from organ donors.
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