GURPS 4th Campaign Types

SonofJohn · 02-18-2010, 05:39 PM

As far as i know your camaign revolving around a King gone missing and Prince Spell-Bond and Paladin Bros. searching him.

When he got lost abroad the most plausible starting point would be to get where he got lost start searching so if he not got lost intetionally who or what ever abducked him is still there .... So going there and searching openly as the son of the lost king wouldnt be the best idea. The first adventure would possibly revolve around the Travell preperations to get unnoticed into contry were the old king got missing ... if you want to be a nasty GM you could let your players suffer the fact that the search party is more equiped and skilled for wilderness swashbuckling than for and stealthy investigation. When the prince doesnt want to fund his operation out of his farther treasure chambers to keep a low profile he may have to pay for information with favors, he may also have to earn the trust of some of regional underworld to avoid knocking on the wrong doors.... doors his father vanished behind...
If there is a ambitios younger brother or chancellor who rules the realm in his fathers absence home coming will be fun too ... if the kings where abouts are finally knowen to whole fun even starts... did he sail to the mythic west continent? does he rot in somebody dungeon? did he join a mysterios foreign order, or was he an member even before and is know on enigmatic mission? If yes what could be more important than his Kingdom? What will you need to safe the king and return peace to the Kingdom an artifact? an army? a fast ship? or all of it?

120 pts are a little low for the heir of a kindom or the best swordmen of a kingdom by the way ..

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Originally Posted by tbrock1031

[*]Civil war has erupted in the kingdom, pitting his father's Royalist forces against the usurper's Puritans. The Prince is in exile, along with his two most trusted friends, after the King was publicly beheaded. (Yes, I took this from the English Civil War of King Charles I vs Oliver Cromwell. The English Civil War was TL5, not TL3, but the circumstances could be very similar.)[/LIST]

Muskets, Buffcoats and Pikes are all TL 4 ... the english civil war was nearly at the same time as the second d'Artagnan book plays, TL 5 begins roughly after Napoleon nearly a hundert fifty years later.... swordsman ship is still important at this time and amored riders by no means obsolet... you could make a great cthulhu/eldrich horror setting in a 30 Years War or some thing alike, Wallenstein for example was obsessed with astrology...