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3 years ago ::
Nov 08, 2010 - 9:11AM
#61
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Date Joined:
Dec 10, 2008
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0058 - Your group of soliders of fortune, pursued by the authorities for a crime they didn't commit, are hired by the head of an orphanage for pure blood human children to stop an evil crime boss trying to run the orphanage off their land. The adventure starts off with a fight during which several children are kidnapped. The party pursues to confront the big bad and finds themselves locked in an old shop filled with ancient junk where they participate in a skill challenge to build an improvised war machine which they use to break out of the shop and rescue the orphans. Of course there are lots of explosions and flipping vehicles, no one actually gets killed, the orphans are rescued and the big bad crime lord is arrested at the end while the soldiers of fortune escape one step ahead of the authorities. They don't get paid by the orphanage but hey, those orphans sure are happy!
Sound familiar?
OD&D, 1E and 2E challenged the player.
3E challenged the character, not the player.
Now 4E takes it a step further by challenging a GROUP OF PLAYERS to work together as a TEAM.
That's why I love 4E.
"Your ability to summon a horde of celestial superbeings at will is making my ... BMX skills look a bit redundant."
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3 years ago ::
Nov 08, 2010 - 9:24AM
#62
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Date Joined:
Oct 17, 2010
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0059 - The party find themselves entering a sea side town where every one is a mutation similar to "Creature from the Black Lagoon" who worship a deity called Dagon. What are their sinister plans?
0060 - Meanwhile many people are having strange dreams about a terrible creature with a squid-like head slumbering under the sea. Will it arise? Are the stars right?
A reality crossover has brought the adventurers into a place where the books of H.P. Lovecraft have become real.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 08, 2010 - 10:12AM
#63
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Date Joined:
May 13, 2008
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0061 - Poor unfortunate souls
The android kings 'daughter' R. E. L. has fallen in love with an engineered human. In desperation she turns to the mad scientist of the wastes Ur'Salah who offers to transplant her psyche into the body of a lovely engineered human on one condition, that Ur'Salah keeps possession of her android body "for safe keeping, of course."
Can the party recover the princess' former body before it can be reprogrammed into an assassin? Or will Ur'Salah win the day and retrieve the android kings Omega Tech trident, bringing ruin to the entire region?
And what of R. E. L.? Will she find true love with the object of her affection, or can she be pursauded to return to her father in his hour of need?
You poor unfortunate souls have a lot of work cut out for you. :D
I_Roll_20s @twitter. Not always SFW.
I may prefer 4e, but I will play and enjoy almost any edition, and indeed almost any table top RPG, with my friends. Down with Edition Wars. Shut up and roll your dice. :P
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3 years ago ::
Nov 19, 2010 - 9:07PM
#64
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Date Joined:
Sep 23, 2006
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0057 - Some of Google's servers are still operating and a cult of some kind has started worshiping it. Of course the ancient servers are not working right and often give wrong results although the culist don't know that.
Hmmm, perhaps this will lead to the great "Wiki Wars" in which cult leaders start fighting to (re)write history to favor them and denigrate their foes.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 19, 2010 - 9:15PM
#65
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Date Joined:
Sep 23, 2006
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0062 - A group of Seismics has built a settlement near your town. They're generally peaceable but that hasn't stopped them from being the target of a swarm of angry, intelligent pigeons. The pigeons are obsessed with defecating on the Seismics and raid their encampment at least once a week to do just that. At first, the Seismics handled all of this with great forbearance but have had enough and are starting to fight back. And now the 'poop war' threatens to become a real one. What can you do to defuse the situation before it gets out of hand?
Added wrinkle: more than a few of your fellow townsfolk are pro-pigeon swarm. The guano trade is a lucrative one.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 20, 2010 - 7:01AM
#66
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Date Joined:
Apr 17, 2008
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0063 - You start doing something or other, and then soon realize it's a thinly veiled Gamma Terra version of a well-known plot from a famous movie except with really bad puns. Hilarity often ensues.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 20, 2010 - 8:59PM
#67
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Date Joined:
Oct 20, 2010
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0064 - This game story idea is entirely too reprehensible to put in print.
The Aristocrats!
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3 years ago ::
Nov 23, 2010 - 3:44AM
#68
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Date Joined:
Jun 21, 2008
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0065 - Out away from anything any of you would consider civilization, you've discovered the corroded hull of an airplane. Inside, there are skeletal remains of several Ancients, and cases full of gold. Can you survive long enough to make the most of your treasure?
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3 years ago ::
Nov 23, 2010 - 7:49AM
#69
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Date Joined:
Aug 22, 2007
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0066- The party enters a large comlex looking for omega tech. It is Monsanto Genetics Corp, and the party is attacked by 6' tall humanoid zombie chickens. the party must fight through a host of mutated zombie monsters, only to find the whole place run by Tomm, a brain in a jar.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 24, 2010 - 1:24AM
#70
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Date Joined:
Sep 26, 2001
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0067 - The party enters a civilized, peaceful-seeming farming community made up entirely of mutated animals. The citizens greet them warmly enough, at first, but a porker picks a fight with them. After they send him packing with a bruised ego (and body, presumably), more porkers and some particularly vicious mutated canines show up, intent on detaining them for being 'enemy agents' and 'counter-revolutionaries.' If they're carrying ammunition or if any of them attempt to barter trade goods, they get in even more trouble. The PCs are probably powerful enough to escape, but on the way they figure out just how oppressive a 'government' the porkers and canines have set up - they'll probably want to do something about it.
Love 4e? Concerned about its future? Join the Old Guard of 4e"You want The Tooth? You can't handle The Tooth!" - Dahlver-Nar. "If magic is unrestrained in the campaign, D&D quickly degenerates into a weird wizard show where players get bored quickly" - E. Gary Gygax
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