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That's a very heavy-handed technique. It can work - but the question is whether you want PCs straining at their ropes right out of the gate.

You can't imagine how difficult it was to restrain myself as much as I did. But I should emphasize: It's not MY project - it's OUR project. Whatever goes in can become the next setting for your RPG, or ideas for your next novel, or the "distant land to the south" in your existing campaign...

So... many... good ideas... lost... C'mon, check the sig. :) Make the bet a worlder's place.

One of the best things you can do to help this game get off the ground is have the players agree why they're adventuring together before the game. While stories of how heroes meet for the first time can be cool, they're awfully tricky to do during play. I'd recommend coming up with something...

Really D&D heavy: Githyanki have discovered that the players' homeworld is going to soon be ruled by illithids who will spread out like crazy. They have made an uneasy alliance with githzerai to destroy these illithids. Githyanki AND Githzerai invading to turn the surface world into an...

I was imagining: If there was a huge conspiracy behind RPGs, who would be on the board of directors? This has to be an all-encompassing conspiracy; no "indie games are freedom fighters" - they're all part of the conspiracy. My quick list: Ryan Dancey Vin Diesel Scott Rouse Monte Cook Ron...

Big questions: Who will the PCs be? When will the game be set? Where do you want to start?

What you need is Situation, maybe the Amusement Park method. Check this link: http://rycanada.livejournal.com/613.html

That's a shame. I was hoping he might be interested in donating one of his old ones to the Great Hundred; it's perfect for the project.

while we're at it, I tried and failed to contact oddsea ... anyone know him / her?

My FLGS is Hairy Tarantula, 374 1/4 Yonge Street in Toronto I think. I can only go into it if I have my tinfoil hat securely fastened and hold my breath because I'm deathly allergic to cats and dust.

Gorgoldand's Gauntlet is available for free somewhere, Richards posts here fairly frequently. I did a Gorgoldand's Gauntlet Expanded thread around the fifth time I ran it. Awesome adventure, 1 dungeon, 1 session kind of deal.

I just want to add that "WANTED: Dark Secrets" is the best wanted ad I can think of. Awesome.

The players notice a noblewoman friend of theirs appears in a portrait of another family from a hundred years ago, and then meet her in a completely different place and she doesn't act like she knows them. They uncover a trove of clockwork pieces, including ones that look like porcelain doll...

The Great Hundred is non-profit, if that eases your mind at all (that's the project that I'm trying to dragnet these old campaign settings for, see the sig). But the stuff (in wahtever form it turns into after getting shuffled around, edited, changed, and completely reworked a few times...

Another family or organization: When they're struck about the head, a chip comes off the paint on their eyes, revealing dark stone orbs. If cleaned off (this involves some killing probably) their eyes are carved in runes of a language no one understands. Four other identical orbs are situated...

Man, I'd love to pick over some of that BtKotB for the Great Hundred.

In the family's past, someone tried to find a formula that would allow them to live forever, and succeeded. Unfortuantely, they kept aging, and now they're still acting as the patriarch, controlling the family from the shadows... a shrunken, dessicated husk kept in plush-lined chamber disguised...

Do you still have any of it in an old file somewhere?

I think a lot of us have old half-finished campaign settings, half-written RPG products, and notes from old campaigns. What have you done with that stuff?