Campaigns in a nutshell. Adventures in a sentence.

[Bohandas]

The Heart of Malfeas- Basically the plot of Morrowind but as and adventure in Exalted. Someone has figured out a way to use the remains of Ruvelia, Malfeas' slain original fetich soul, to make themself into a being similar to a deathlord and to power a giant golem that they intend to use to attack the Realm. (As an aside, has anyone else noticed big similarities between the Elser Scrolls creation story and the Exalted creation story? Time Not is Satak. Pure Chaos is Satakal. The Fair Folk/Rakshas are the Daedra. The Primordials/Yozis/Neverborn are the Aedra and the leader of their project to create the world had his heart cut out.)

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

They still sell all the Primal Order capsystem books WotC used to make before Magic came out. Perfectly workable system for PCs drifting into godhood. Readily adaptable to a wide variety of game systems, since it was designed from the ground up to be an addition to an existing set of rules rather than its own thing.

I didn’t know that! I’m missing 1-2 of those. Thanks!

 

[Bohandas]

Wacky Weapons- Kung-Fu themed Toon game that focuses on parodying the exotic weapons seen in martial arts movies and games by giving everybody deliberately bizarre made up weapons. (Possible examples would be things like a spear with a pizza cutter instead of a spear head, a Skip-It with a machete blade where the ball should be, a sword with a loop-de-loop in the middle, a giant boot that gets swung around on a rope, and a flail head that attaches to somebody's long ponytail.)

EDIT:
Also an entire martial art based on burning people with your cigar, a propeller beanie with flails instead of propeller blades, and a blowgun that you fart into

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Wacky Weapons- Kung-Fu themed Toon game that focuses on parodying the exotic weapons seen in martial arts movies and games by giving everybody deliberately bizarre made up weapons. (Possible examples would be things like a spear with a pizza cutter instead of a spear head, a Skip-It with a machete blade where the ball should be, a sword with a loop-de-loop in the middle, a giant boot that gets swung around on a rope, and a flail head that attaches to somebody's long ponytail.)

EDIT:
Also an entire martial art based on burning people with your cigar, a propeller beanie with flails instead of propeller blades, and a blowgun that you fart into

Dude! That a winner!

Running Tooned-up versions of all those martial arts films & shows could really be fun.

I mean, imagine spoofing Big Trouble in Little China, or the Kung Fu TV series this way!

 

[Bohandas]

PCs are hired to hunt a vampire that's been rampaging through the land every night. The twist is that the guy who hires them is secretly an older more subtle vampire who wants this new vampire put down so that it doesn't cause a panic that could draw attention to him

Dude! That a winner!

Running Tooned-up versions of all those martial arts films & shows could really be fun.

I mean, imagine spoofing Big Trouble in Little China, or the Kung Fu TV series this way!

Big Trouble In Little China did have the one scene like this when the Three Storms first appeared and the one guy had the cuisinart blades on his ring

 

[ichabod]

PCs are hired to hunt a vampire that's been rampaging through the land every night. The twist is that the guy who hires them is secretly an older more subtle vampire who wants this new vampire put down so that it doesn't cause a panic that could draw attention to him

I had a similar idea to this for a Dungeons & Dragons campain (it's all dungeon crawls, and every dungeon has a dragon in it). The patron of the group is actually another dragon who is trying to clear out the competition. But he can't do it openly because the other dragons will gang up on him.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I had a similar idea to this for a Dungeons & Dragons campain (it's all dungeon crawls, and every dungeon has a dragon in it). The patron of the group is actually another dragon who is trying to clear out the competition. But he can't do it openly because the other dragons will gang up on him.

stealing

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

SERPICLONE
(For Paranoia!)

Friend computer recruits a team of Troubleshooters to investigate corruption in NYC Sector. They’re immediately promoted to Blue clearance and given access to everything IntSec has in its arsenal. They report ONLY to The Computer, and nobody in the regular chain of IntSec has access to their reports. Instead, they’re stored in sealed off data sectors even skilled Programmers might have to work hard to detect- who knows how high up the chain of command the corruption goes? The Computer has even made it so certain queries go to dummy files.

Problem is, a glitch has occurred, and The Computer has actually created several such teams in NYC Sector some of whom have gone undercover. And because each team’s data is so thoroughly and masterfully encrypted, even The Computer’s own internal processes are being fooled by its own security measures. As far as It can tell, there is only one anti-corruption task force.

 

[Bohandas]

The Real Treasure Was the Treasure We Found Along the Way- A monty haul campaign in search of a macguffin that turns out to be distinctly underwhelming, leading to the titular moral

I was looking at this and thought...what would the effects of a coronal mass ejection (CME) look like in a fantasy or science-fantasy setting?

SPACE.com -- The Great Storm: Solar Tempest of 1859 Revealed

I think it could be very much like the background to RIFTS- the CME could cause an incredible flare in the Ley Lines as raw energy- raw mana?- floods the world.

All kinds of effects could result:

1. All kinds of fires could spring up, especially in a technomagical world like Eberron, and even moreso in something like Shadowrun or Urban Arcana.
2. Magic items that have charges could be recharged...or overcharged to the point of explosion.
3. Long-dormant relics and artifacts could be infused with energies that "awaken" them.
4. The massive infusion of solar energy could have a negative effect on Undead...it may even destroy them all. All except the most deeply buried, that is...
5. The effect on Living Constructs could be similar to that on Undead.
6. All kinds of interplanar links and portals, wards and seals and so forth could be strengthened, weakened or destroyed. ([BARBARINO]Welcome back, Mr. Cthulhu![/BARBARINO])
7. The energy release could cause physical harm to creatures with spell-like abilities or innate casters like Sorcerers.

Or the ejection could take the form of a giant invasion force of fire and/or radiance elementals, and the flare itself something akin to a planet-sized version of the grex and sorocarp stages of a slime mold colony