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I think one big impact on time is combat, as it eats up a lot of table time. The group more involved in combat could then end up with the session stopping in the middle of kicking in someone's door, and the aftermath is unknown when it's the other group's day. In my situation, I think it...

Good point, @Umbran. There's also the problem that no one may be interested in one of the two styles (nation building and diplomacy may not get much enthusiasm. :P) I know the "don't know about eachother" is a fun reveal, but I'd probably be advertising the games together. And since I'd run...

Right now I'm running a short-ish campaign, so my eye is on the next. I could run it with two different focuses: either nation building/diplomacy/sticking around the home base and defending it, or going out and exploring uncharted areas. Then I realized I could run each, one for two groups. And...

Yeah but they're so...silly. :P Oh I like this.

This can be as horror as you like it, but I think it would at least have an interesting vibe: The Chosen One has died. Just as the Evil Thing Army is on the outskirts of the kingdom and getting closer, the Chosen One was murdered by an Evil Thing assassin. The killer used a magical poison that...

@TheSword all of those are great. :)

That could work. I can even see something from a different plane, summoned or trapped or anything else, that just wants out.

I actually just started running a D&D horror game. The premise is modeled somewhat off the video game Half Life, where a research complex messes with Weird Science things and winds up causing a rift with an alien dimension. In this campaign, a magical research facility has been sucked into the...

When it comes to "motivations", an idea comes to mind of something understandable: spite. The Dungeon's existence has attracted the attention of two Aspects of...not gods, but powerful entities. Avatars of things like Eberron's Daelkyr. The Fleshweaver and the Thoughtrender, two opposing...

Crazy? It's a good movie.

Oh wow I love this. It's like... Groundhog Day, Cthulu Edition. (There's also a horror movie called To Your Last Death which is not dissimilar; cosmic deities placing bets on the outcome of a Saw-like event, and the game master resetting the situation when the outcome starts turning predictable...

Ohh. That's interesting. Ramble Time Shat sort of raw "everything flowing together" is kinda like 4e's Elemental Chaos (in that all the elements are braided together and flow, and so you can have floating volcanos and so on). But the raw chaos reminds me of Exalted's "Wyld", where everything...

Oops, I just realized I posted in this thread already.

I'm running a short-ish campaign where the PCs are trapped in a mega-dungeon dungeon that has been sucked into the Far Realms. The goal of the campaign is to get back home safely, which entails sending the dungeon back. Denizens in the Far Realms thus are going to come into various parts of the...

So the PCs woke up in a magical research facility, right? The place has both Lots of funding and arcane scientists, which means lots of magical equipment. LIke the crystal that was keeping them all asleep (but it broke). And a magical "Stasis box" that works like a fridge and a bag of...

If the location is too perilous to rest, it's too perilous to haggle at length with a merchant. They have no memories is what I'm sayin'.

What's the downside for the PCs here? The salesfiend is in a relatively safe area, so they'll just rest and heal up. Is it the blood to be used in rituals against them for whatever reason? Because, while that's not a bad idea, the "for what purpose" is again limited; congrats, you have power...

The players know they're signing up to it. I made it clear at character creation. Also the devil isn't using the PCs to kill his lord because again, the PCs aren't leaving the dungeon. It is a very contained, specific campaign with the goal of "return the dungeon to the material plane" and...

I don'The campaign is basically just a dungeon crawl in hostile environment, so I don't plan for it to go beyond that. Nor have too many friendly NPCs. That said, hmm. It does give me the idea of The hard sell: Future purchases are at a 25% markup and selling is at a 25% discount The lighter...

I used Maptools back in the day, but eventually found it too much work. Now I'm getting back into things and need to learn Roll20 by the first session next Sunday.