dave_o
Explorer
If anyone remembers my short-lived (sorry!) Manifest Destiny PbP, I'm finally running it live! Unfortunately, it's been around a year or so since I've gotten the opportunity to run a game live, so I've gotten a tad rusty. The game is D&D3E, set in 1840s America. The Spanish are in control of the US west of the Mississippi, and the US (east of the Mississippi) is still in civil war. It's kinda like Deadlands and Tank Girl meet. Oh yeah, the Asian races are elves, and halflings are just a common off-shoot of humanity.
The Players!
So far, it's Totonka (Male Human Barbarian 5), a famed Indian tracker and active member in the Ghost Dance. Then we have Pepper Blanca (Female Half-Elf Sorcerer 5), a half-Japanese, half-Spanish orphan attempting to hide her sorcereressness by carrying around a huge, honkin' electric six-shooter (think Lina Inverse, if you've seen the Slayers anime). Next is, well, yet to be named, but I'm guessing he'll be some sort of Rogue or Fighter, and he'll be a cockney trick-shooter from England. And finally, a fourth that I have completely no idea as to the concept of.
What Little I've Come Up With!
I'm beginning the campaign with the PCs doing a task for the "Mad" Professor Medley. He's basically my world's equivalent to a tinker Gnome, only quite a bit more nefarious. Their first task will be to retrieve a literal piece of the Elemenal Plane of Fire, having bled through the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I plan on having them beset by some bandits along the way (of course), and maybe having to deal with some baby elementals or something while they're there, but my live-game-radar is so far off from disuse that I'm dry! This piece is going to be part of something called a 'Tonic Bomb, which Medley plans to use to detonate the innards of a cave which contains a planar leak to the Far Realm, something very baaaad that Medley has been dabbling in. Yeah, he's gonna get the psuedonatural template soon (and end up in the Gatecracher PrC). I've entertained notions of having some towns from the Outlands fade into the US in a very western themed way, but I'm just so drained for ideas. This is where the "help" is desperately asked for.
Neat Meta Things I'm Dong!
I'm also not above suggestions for cool meta stuff to do. I'm already using the swashbuckling cards of Barsoom design (barsoomcore is a GOD), and plan on using the widespread pay-the-pig (where you put some change in a jar when you get too off-topic) method. Only, I'm using a cowboy hat as the jar.
ANY OTHER IDEAS GLADLY APRECIATED! Anything from interesting NPCs ideas, to plot ideas, to gadets, to whatever. Any help will be appreciated (and duly noted, and paid back).
The Players!
So far, it's Totonka (Male Human Barbarian 5), a famed Indian tracker and active member in the Ghost Dance. Then we have Pepper Blanca (Female Half-Elf Sorcerer 5), a half-Japanese, half-Spanish orphan attempting to hide her sorcereressness by carrying around a huge, honkin' electric six-shooter (think Lina Inverse, if you've seen the Slayers anime). Next is, well, yet to be named, but I'm guessing he'll be some sort of Rogue or Fighter, and he'll be a cockney trick-shooter from England. And finally, a fourth that I have completely no idea as to the concept of.
What Little I've Come Up With!
I'm beginning the campaign with the PCs doing a task for the "Mad" Professor Medley. He's basically my world's equivalent to a tinker Gnome, only quite a bit more nefarious. Their first task will be to retrieve a literal piece of the Elemenal Plane of Fire, having bled through the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I plan on having them beset by some bandits along the way (of course), and maybe having to deal with some baby elementals or something while they're there, but my live-game-radar is so far off from disuse that I'm dry! This piece is going to be part of something called a 'Tonic Bomb, which Medley plans to use to detonate the innards of a cave which contains a planar leak to the Far Realm, something very baaaad that Medley has been dabbling in. Yeah, he's gonna get the psuedonatural template soon (and end up in the Gatecracher PrC). I've entertained notions of having some towns from the Outlands fade into the US in a very western themed way, but I'm just so drained for ideas. This is where the "help" is desperately asked for.
Neat Meta Things I'm Dong!
I'm also not above suggestions for cool meta stuff to do. I'm already using the swashbuckling cards of Barsoom design (barsoomcore is a GOD), and plan on using the widespread pay-the-pig (where you put some change in a jar when you get too off-topic) method. Only, I'm using a cowboy hat as the jar.
ANY OTHER IDEAS GLADLY APRECIATED! Anything from interesting NPCs ideas, to plot ideas, to gadets, to whatever. Any help will be appreciated (and duly noted, and paid back).