08-26-2021, 10:42 AM | #621 |
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Re: Ideas Are Easy
Like I said, in volume.
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11-09-2021, 08:09 AM | #622 |
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Re: Ideas Are Easy
An Underdark setting where the ecology runs off of "mana blooms". Mana blooms can be used to grow food, provide light, and make mighty enchantments. They also let dormant critters grow to monstrous proportions and excess energy can result in hauntings/strange magical fields. The blooms last for a few months, and an area will keep blooming periodically from anywhere from one year to decades.
The players go out to find and clear mana blooms for the next generation. Hopefully they don't get eaten by something.
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11-30-2021, 08:33 AM | #623 |
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A "resurrection" spell that doesn't necessarily stick spirits back in their original bodies, but can, for instance, stick them in the body of a defeated enemy.
This could be done to infiltrate the enemy, to gain a larger and stronger body, or because the previous body is in terrible shape.
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11-30-2021, 12:47 PM | #624 | |
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Re: Ideas Are Easy
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12-04-2021, 10:13 AM | #625 |
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Re: Ideas Are Easy
Because we would not stop for Death
There is a project to develop a transmissible vaccine for use in countries that lack the infrastructure to provide widespread vaccinations. It gets highjacked by a group of True Believers and turned into basically a vaccination against natural death - providing near universal immunity and almost complete unaging. Average lifespan, barring accidents (or the inevitable starvation if adjustments aren't made quickly), stretches into multiple centuries. And it is dropped onto a world completely unprepared for it. It would be a struggle to avoid an ecological and economic disaster, but if anyone reverses it they would technically become the greatest mass-murderer in history.
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12-04-2021, 07:13 PM | #626 | |
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Of course, there will be some bad reactions and a danger of mutation into a deadly form, but this is Centrum, so being ruthless in pursuit of maximizing lives saved is the rational thing to do. Then one of the medical survey teams notices a contagious amnesia outbreak (i.e. The Infinity Patrol getting sloppy with the Eraser drug.)
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12-06-2021, 09:10 AM | #627 | |
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It works, stopping future plagues and making the world much more peaceful overall. It also kills 1.5 billion people over the course of 3 years, out of the 5.3 billion population at the time... and that's with it not mutating (genetic therapy that isn't tailored to an individual, and performed without any preparation on the part of the patient, is unsurprisingly rather dangerous).
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12-11-2021, 06:08 AM | #628 |
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No Dog's Land
The trenches of the Great War, from the point of view of the war dogs. The PCs are a group of dogs, doing their best to keep their soldiers safe and sane. (This popped into my head as an idea for a Don Bluth inspired animated film titled "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm" about a war dog trying to integrate back into civilian life after WWI)
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12-11-2021, 05:25 PM | #629 |
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Re: Ideas Are Easy
"Sarge, how do I get out of this chicken-chasing outfit?"
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12-13-2021, 01:24 PM | #630 |
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Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better.
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