Campaign Themes

What is the theme of your campaign?

  • Sword and Sorcery (et. al. Conan the Barbarian)

    Votes: 90 20.6%
  • High Fantasy (et. al. The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's Imitators)

    Votes: 137 31.4%
  • Psionics (If Thoughts Could Kill, Of Sound Mind)

    Votes: 27 6.2%
  • Oriental Adventures (Rokugan; Kara-Tur; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

    Votes: 26 5.9%
  • Pulp Fantasy (Eberron?)

    Votes: 49 11.2%
  • Dark Fantasy (Ravenloft)

    Votes: 50 11.4%
  • Arthurian/Medieval (et. al. Morte d' Arthur)

    Votes: 37 8.5%
  • Ancient Times (Troy, The Scorpion King)

    Votes: 26 5.9%
  • The Great D&D Melting Pot of Creativity (Put everything in, bring to a boil, stew)

    Votes: 174 39.8%
  • Some of the Above

    Votes: 71 16.2%
  • Something Totally off the Wall (Chaositech)

    Votes: 21 4.8%
  • I'm running Something Else (d20 Modern, d20 Future, Licensed RPG)

    Votes: 42 9.6%

  • Poll closed .
I selected the Melting Pot, A little of All of the above (which seems like the same option really), and Something different.

The fantasy campaign put together a lot of different material together: D&D, AU, OA, Diablo, Everquest, Chaositech as well as species and monsters from Star Wars, Farscape, and others. The world is an ever-expanding plane made up of survivors from a multiverse-spanning cataclysm. The survivors are implanted on a plane that looks and acts like a Prime Material world, but it expands to include new "refugees" as their homeworld is overtaken by the cataclysm...at least that the most widely held theory.

The primary campaign is a post-apocalyptic psuedo-Rifts setting using D20 Modern as a base (but will include bits from D20 Future when it comes out). There is a little bit of everything in it as well. Power armor, Jedi Knights, mages, monsters, and mutants. It's been a LOT of fun so far.

The final campaign is a more Dark*Matter/Call of Cthulhu/Delta Green setting that we run only every so often. It uses D20 Modern as a base with Sanity rules from CoC. I still throw in a few D&D monsters in from time to time, though.

Needless to say, I love D20! I can run pretty much the precise game that i want with little fuss. Once D20 Future comes out, my dream settings will be totally realized! No more cobbling together various systems for cybernetics, mutations, and such...that is, if I like the way D20 Future handles such things as opposed to Darwin's World and Gamma World (mutations and Nanotech) and Star Wars (cybernetics from the Hero's Guide).

Kane
 

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None of the above. You need more choices, so I wil go through the list

Low fantasy. Low magic and a film noir feel. (You had high fantasy, but not low. And pulp has some carryover, but...)

And its counterpart Swashbuckling. (Low magic, but high adventure. Again some crossover with pulp.)

Mystery - Puzzles and plots that weave and twist around each other leading to a single climax.

Psionics (If Thoughts Could Kill, Of Sound Mind) This is a rules choice, not a theme. As far as I am concerned magic is psi and psi is magic.

The Auld Grump
 


TheAuldGrump said:
None of the above. You need more choices, so I wil go through the list

Low fantasy. Low magic and a film noir feel. (You had high fantasy, but not low. And pulp has some carryover, but...)

And its counterpart Swashbuckling. (Low magic, but high adventure. Again some crossover with pulp.)

Mystery - Puzzles and plots that weave and twist around each other leading to a single climax.

Psionics (If Thoughts Could Kill, Of Sound Mind) This is a rules choice, not a theme. As far as I am concerned magic is psi and psi is magic.

The Auld Grump
Low Fantasy is as feel, not a theme. Although I pretty much agree with you. I should have put more choices in.
 



Hm, I voted for some of the above. Mine is a home brew incorporating elements of high fantasy, high magic, with other elements such as chaostech and others. There's plent of things I don't allow so I won't call it the great melting pot as everything has a place, just there isn't a place for everything.

-Ashrum
 




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