Campaign Ideas!

[Timothy]

I got a couple of nice ideas, and may even start DM-ing them when I get my Game of Gods started.

Here are the ideas:

A Game of Children: every character starts out as a child that is half the starting age of his race old. The setting wil probarly be a ruined city with these childeren as only survivors. This campaing requires very complex devolopment rules. Thinking about starting out as children withou any class, and very low stats. Stats and classes are given by the DM, according to the actions the players have.

A Game of Rogues: A party full of rogues.
A Game of Clerics: A party full of clerics.

The latter two campaigns could focus heavily on a couple of aspects, and seeing what the possibilities are with a character class.

Are ther any players interested in one of this games?
Other DM's may use them as well (as long as I get to play, hehehehe) And if you have any oideas that you are not willing to start DM-ing immediatly, post them here and see who wants to DM it.

I'm probarly not the first to come up with the ideas, but I thought I'd post them anyway.

 

[Timothy]

I've decided that If I can come up with good rules, and enough players I will DM A Game of Childeren. Any Takers?

 

[Leopold]

daddy daddy can i play with the big sharp pointy thingy???

 

[Drawmack]

A Game of Children: every character starts out as a child that is half the starting age of his race old. The setting wil probarly be a ruined city with these childeren as only survivors. This campaing requires very complex devolopment rules. Thinking about starting out as children withou any class, and very low stats. Stats and classes are given by the DM, according to the actions the players have.

This sounds rather interesting. Though I can see it leading to logistics problems. What if you have a human and an elf? The humen would be full grown and the elf would not have aged at all. Might want to limit the races available so that they all age at the same time. I'd be interested in this game as well as in the rules. Is it going to be PbEM, PbP, OpenRPG or some other method?

A Game of Rogues: A party full of rogues.

These games are fun. Generally you play in a city where you all belong to the thieves guild. You are one ''special unit'' for the guild. The character's each take a different role in the unit leading to PrCs and multiclassing as the game goes on. These types of games are usually a fun exercise in racial/alignment differences.

A Game of Clerics: A party full of clerics.

Hmmm, maybe you're vampire hunters for the church or you track down the unholy. This could be really cool as an inquest style game.

 

[Leopold]

I'm all for the clerical game as well..the rogue game i have done to death but the clerical game will be spent with post after post of religous debate...most fun

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

All the ideas sound cool, but i don't think i hve the energy left to put another character together. I'm sure Garyh will be along though.

 

[Timothy]

Re: Re: Campaign Ideas!

This sounds rather interesting. Though I can see it leading to logistics problems. What if you have a human and an elf? The humen would be full grown and the elf would not have aged at all. Might want to limit the races available so that they all age at the same time. I'd be interested in this game as well as in the rules. Is it going to be PbEM, PbP, OpenRPG or some other method?

I would like to play it as a PbP. The biggest obstacles are indeed the rles, we'll meet the problems you've described and much more.

You don't have to make a character up, because you all start the same (only different stats) and probarly all human.
Maybe I could start it up if there are enough players, and work out the rules then.

 

[garyh]

All the ideas sound cool, but i don't think i hve the energy left to put another character together. I'm sure Garyh will be along though.

Hey, I can quit any time I want!!

 

[Drawmack]

Re: Re: Re: Campaign Ideas!

I would like to play it as a PbP. The biggest obstacles are indeed the rles, we'll meet the problems you've described and much more.

You don't have to make a character up, because you all start the same (only different stats) and probarly all human.
Maybe I could start it up if there are enough players, and work out the rules then.

I have some ideas on starting it up.

1) All the same race to get around problems of aging at different speeds.

2) Point buy the stats but with only like 10 - 12 points.

3) Instead of xp the dm hands out ability points.

4) When your abilities reach 28 points on the point buy system you can take level 1.

5) Everyone starts off as an expert (class). i.e. Maybe someone is an expert (rogue) so they get 10 of the rogue's skills and all of the rogues exclusive skills.

Just my thoughts on starting it off.

 

[Timothy]

Great ideas Drawmack.
Altough I do not agree about number 5, I think characters have no skill points to start with, as they just start learning them. Although the do have acces to all the untrained skills.
Maybe they will also have acces to other skills, but have a very big penalty when using them. The biggest problem will probarly be that there is no one to train them, so they have to be self-learned in everything.