Campaigns in a nutshell. Adventures in a sentence.

[Jolly Ruby]

Mononoke Hime on the Borderlands: Just rewatched Mononoke Hime yesterday and thought "hey, this guy is playing Keep on the Borderlands all wrong!" and then got me thinking, how can I reproduce this as an RPG campaign? The party goes to the Keep with an objective (in the movie, the protagonist's objective is healing the tatari-gami curse that will kill him) and finds several factions in conflict: the Keep people and the Castellan as Eboshi Gozen and the Iron Town; the different tribes in the Caves of Chaos as Moro, Okkoto, the monkeys, and their respective tribes; the raiders as maybe Jigo and his men, or Asano's samurai. Siding with the Keep isn't obvious anymore, and it would work as an interesting sandbox while the conflict unfolds.

 

[Bohandas]

Fad-thagn
Call of Cthulhu campaign ending with the revelation that cthulhu et al aren't even really imprisoned, the entire Earth (maybe even the entire solar system) is a sort of cosmic escape room puzzle (or it's describable as an "escape room" in the same sense in which scp-3591 is describable as a "soldier")

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Out of the frying pan, into the fire

A secret organization has fallen on hard times. In an effort to revitalize its ranks and reclaim its place in the world of shadows, they decided to recruit new agents from the ranks of the CIA.

Unfortunately, the recruitment process has gone awry because one of the divisions hardest hit was HR. And someone scouting out new agents didn’t realize that in addition to the Central Intelligence Agency, there was also a Culinary Institute of America.

Can the new recruits handle the transition from Sweet & Sour to Sig Sauers?

 

[Orius]

Sounds kind of like If Looks Could Kill, but with cooking school instead of high school.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The Quantum Quartet:

As a publicity stunt, a bunch of celebrities go on a trip on a rocket to a low-orbit space station where they will spend a week broadcasting to the world. Unfortunately, a massive, unexpected solar flare erupts, and all of the occupants must be evacuated for medical treatment.

Only four survive…but not unchanged. Each survivor gains new super abilities. The question is, how will they use them?

(Each player picks a RW celebrity and makes them into a super hero.)

 

[Bohandas]

The Lost Sheep- Call of Cthulhu campaign. The PCs are former cultists of Hastur who fled the cult after realizing that members of the cult were being sacrificed. Now they're being relentlessly pursued by the cult's murderous leader, who is personally hunting them down.

 

[Bohandas]

Marbas' Dreamhouse- Call of Cthulhu; The home of one of the PCs is a normal building for its location. It's counterpart in the dreamlands however is unusually tall. Above the normal floors are several stories that are seemingly unused and abandoned, and above those are several floors occupied by the followers of whatever cult the PC in question has pissed off most often.
edit: if all the PCs live in apartments or something, than one PC's individual apartment has several extra stories in the dreamlands, extra stories that ate disconnected from the rest of he building.

The Quantum Quartet:

As a publicity stunt, a bunch of celebrities go on a trip on a rocket to a low-orbit space station where they will spend a week broadcasting to the world. Unfortunately, a massive, unexpected solar flare erupts, and all of the occupants must be evacuated for medical treatment.

Only four survive…but not unchanged. Each survivor gains new super abilities. The question is, how will they use them?

and in any case, the Rolling Stones are completely immune to the powers of Kate Moss

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

the Rolling Stones are completely immune to the powers of Kate Moss

Nice!

 

[Bohandas]

The Old Physics Ranch- This is either a downtime D&D encounter taking place in a farming village on Mechanus or a Toon encounter taking place in a rural community that either is near Los Alamos or has an observatory or grows a lot of genetically modified food. In any case, the PCs are roped into going cow tipping by some local youths but are stymied when they discover that all the cows are spherical

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The Old Physics Ranch- This is either a downtime D&D encounter taking place in a farming village on Mechanus or a Toon encounter taking place in a rural community that either is near Los Alamos or has an observatory or grows a lot of genetically modified food. In any case, the PCs are roped into going cow tipping by some local youths but are stymied when they discover that all the cows are spherical

How now, round cows?