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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus" data-source="post: 1674617" data-attributes="member: 1014">Here's what I've wanted to run for about three years now:I tell the players we're in a sci-fi game.  They're humans and the enemy is the only alien race known to man.  It is a situation of total war and no alien bodies have been recovered so no one knows much about them other than they are very likely humanoid.The players are on a prospecting mission to a newly discovered planet which has several black holes in orbit around in in perfect symmetry.  Very odd.  They are jumped by an alien ship and they wind up crash-landing.  That's the first adventure.The planet is otherwise typical D&D.  The players will probably cruise through the first few levels, until their sci-fi ammo runs out.  There would be extra incentive not to die as any new character would be magical/native in orgin.  The players are welcomed by the squabbling native kingdoms who are preparing for an orc invasion.  The players are promised aid if they help fight the orcs ... and then that's when they find out that just as they resemble native humans, the aliens resemble native orcs ... and the aliens managed to salvage a lot more technology.I have more planned in my geeky little brain.  An orbiting satilite that the players' headsets can access whose AI is corrupted by the magical field.  A godling who wants to reinvient her portfolio to include technology and demands one of the players become her high priest.  A demon who attempts to corrupt one of the players so the demon can use the tech-savvy soul in the Blood War.  The list of <s>punishment</s> fun goes on and on.Sigh.</blockquote>

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