09-22-2021, 08:09 PM | #1 |
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Southeast NC
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Crazy campaigns ideas
Am I the only one who picked up GURPS Fantasy: Portal Realms and thought "Why send four school children through, when you can send a circa-1960 military expedition though?"
I doubt I'll ever use that idea. Maybe I just really liked having an excuse for researching on the era's military hardware.
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09-22-2021, 08:51 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Renton, WA
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Re: Crazy campaigns ideas
My current campaign is;
It's a science fiction + fantasy + horror game. And it screams "yes GURPS can do that." |
09-23-2021, 01:29 AM | #3 | |
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: Crazy campaigns ideas
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09-24-2021, 05:58 AM | #4 |
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: L.I., NY
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Re: Crazy campaigns ideas
My recent campaign idea, which I haven’t really put together yet, is set in a private school where some of the students are fantastic creatures from myth and folklore. They have to maintain a masquerade as humans, at a time when their hormones and anxieties are pushing them towards their inhuman natures. The focus would be on the social and academic challenges of high school, complicated by intrusions from the hidden world of magic and monsters. The tone I’d like to set is teen age melodrama combined with surreal weirdness: “Big Mouth” meets “Doom Patrol”. I’m not sure I have the players who would get into the melodrama part though, my usual group is more into action-oriented games.
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09-24-2021, 07:09 AM | #5 | |
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Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: Crazy campaigns ideas
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09-25-2021, 06:46 AM | #6 | |
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Location: Snoopy's basement
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Re: Crazy campaigns ideas
Inspired by a passing comment on another thread, I am developing a campaign where the PCs will be non-humanoid utility robots (SM-1 or smaller) stranded on a low-tech world inhabited by alien biological life and a bizarre and cruel totalitarian culture whose holiest site houses the mcguffin that could get them back to civilization.
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09-25-2021, 01:22 PM | #7 | |
Join Date: Jun 2017
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Re: Crazy campaigns ideas
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Now, if you gave the fantasy world some kind of magical TL upgrade, then it's a different story....
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09-25-2021, 02:09 PM | #8 |
Join Date: May 2020
Location: Winnipeg, Canada
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Re: Crazy campaigns ideas
My campaign ideas are usually fuelled by "crazy". I know I'm not alone in this regard :)
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09-25-2021, 03:44 PM | #9 |
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Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: Crazy campaigns ideas
Mary Gentle's fantasy novel Grunts! concludes with the fantasy world deciding to do that itself.
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09-26-2021, 01:24 PM | #10 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The Enchanted Land-O-Cheese
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Re: Crazy campaigns ideas
This has probably been mentioned elsewhere, but there is a very good anime series titled GATE, in which a dimensional portal opens up in the middle of downtown Tokyo and an army wearing Roman-style armor and bearing medieval weaponry, and including orcs, beast-men and wyvern-mounted aerial cavalry, comes through and attacks.
The invaders are repulsed, and the Japanese Self-Defense Force sends an expeditionary force through the gate to secure it and to scout out what's on the other side. At least that's the original plan, but as the mission progresses, the protagonists find themselves more and more involved with local politics and power struggles, not to mention a full-sized grown dragon who isn't quite as easy to deal with even with modern fire-power.
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