State of the Campaign

[logan9a]

By the end of season 2, we should have stuff scheduled through the middle of December 2018.

For people wanting to watch or listen to the campaign, this is a bonanza of material.



Although I thought that season 1 was a lot of fun, I think that some of the stuff from season 2 was hopefully better written and gave the players more opportunities to shine.

I'm starting work on season 3 stuff.

One of the things I am going to work on doing is to try to have a couple 'mission givers' in various zones. While I (and some of the players) like the idea of an 'open world' adventure, it freaks some of the other players out a bit and they end up wandering around, starting various things then wandering off.

By having both places to get missions and enough potential stuff (and interesting people) that the players can get involved with various things and be able to have 'background stuff' going on to make the world a very busy place.

IMO, having the world be very busy is a good thing.

Creating the new zones (I want tons of them eventually) with all the various things in there is a hell of a lot of work but I've got three months.

If anyone has any thoughts or input, as always I'm happy to listen.

[Scott]

Are you taking suggestions for new zones?

[logan9a]

Always - I've got three I'm messing with now but either I will like a suggestion enough to move that up or stick it on my list for later.

[Scott]

Off the top of my head...

Steampunk zone
Space Opera zone
Medieval/High Fantasy/D&D/LotR zone
Anachronistic Caveman + Dinosaur zone (AKA The Flintstones zone)

[logan9a]

Got three of the four already in the works. HA! Good stuff.

More ideas please.

[Scott]

Discworld zone
1920s Cthulhu zone
Faerie zone
World of Darkness zone

[logan9a]

Apr 24, 2018 22:06:25 GMT Scott said:

Discworld zone
1920s Cthulhu zone
Faerie zone
World of Darkness zone

Discworld - honestly I am not nearly as clever as Pratchett. I've tried it before but very mixed results to say the least.

1920's Cthulhu zone - did a lot of that in the past. I'd like an odd and interesting twist on it. I'm working on something that will twist it already though.

Faerie zone - got some of that in other zones currently. But as a stand alone, it's not great.

World of Darkness - vampirism = splitting the party. Believe me, we did that in the past. reference, Muldoon.

[Fantômas]

80's American Action
80s/90s Heroic Bloodshed/Gun Fu (John Woo, Ringo Lam, Chow Yun-fat etc)
Dieselpunk (Steampunk world that has advanced to the 20's)
Axis won the 2nd world war
Confederacy won the American Civil War

[logan9a]

May 1, 2018 3:48:24 GMT Fantômas said:

80's American Action
80s/90s Heroic Bloodshed/Gun Fu (John Woo, Ringo Lam, Chow Yun-fat etc)
Dieselpunk (Steampunk world that has advanced to the 20's)
Axis won the 2nd world war
Confederacy won the American Civil War

80s action might be possible.

gun fu - not sure what all that would involve or how it would be different from the above - just different actors and directors cuts and in the case of Woo - a fuck ton more birds for some reason.

Dieselpunk/steampunk - I actually read a steam punk book to see how they pull it off. Turns out that 'cog', 'gear', 'steam', 'sprocket', etc were mentioned at least twice per paragraph. This tells me that the really cool part is in the real life dress up where you can look at the intricate stuff and say "Neat."

Alternative history - tricky as it requires a fuck ton of study of real life things. That's why I did 'furry western'. Nobody ever pointed out "Well, you know that General blah blah blah" because then I could respond "Was he the one with a big ole beaver head?" Problem solved - no history to study and figure out.

The neat part about speculative fiction/alternative history is those people IMO who actually know a fuck ton about it (the Roman empire never ends and etc) and try to bring it forward to now.

Sadly, I don't really have any deep interest in speculative/alternative stuff.

I think what I enjoy doing is to take two divergent things and try to twist them together. Example "The Highlander" plus "Entourage".

Not sure how successful it was but I'd dare say I've never seen nor heard about anyone doing that particular twist before.

So, I'm looking for more twists.

[Scott]

"CSI" plus "Bladerunner"

[logan9a]

Think I want to stay away from heavy CSI stuff - did that one already. Might have a mission that has some because hey - my players are pretty smart and most know how to process a crime scene.