Cheesy campaign idea - the Union Sentinels

[tsadkiel]

That's right - the Union Sentinels. The prestige class for Epic warriors to . . . become city guards, rather than doing anything even remotely epic. Still, it may be interesting for a short-term game to take the premise at face value.

Start with epic level heroes - real ones, the kind who have been slaying dragons and ruling kingdoms and stealing fire from the gods. Hand them each a suitably epic-level defeat, leaving them broken and spiritually owned by the Mercane, and forced to work as a Sentinel in order to pay off the debt and return home. Then give them some epic-level police work - maybe start out Law & Order style, with the corpse of a god discovered in a back alley.

It's a cop show, only the cops are Beowulf, Lancelot, Odysseus, and the Monkey King. Probably not great for a long term campaign, but it might be a fun miniseries or one shot.

 

[VirgilCaine]

It's a cop show, only the cops are Beowulf, Lancelot, Odysseus, and the Monkey King. Probably not great for a long term campaign, but it might be a fun miniseries or one shot.

Beowulf, Lancelot, Odysseus, and Goku. Interesting group.

 

[Arkhandus]

LOL!

Vegeta might have a bone to pick with that Monkey King choice though.....

 

[Byrons_Ghost]

I could see it. Might not even have to spiritually break the PCs, maybe they're just epic people who wanted to retire from adventuring, and to the Guardian job to get into the city.

Cyberpunk 2020 had, as a possible campaign, one in which the PCs played cyberpsycho squad members. The reasoning was that only highly-cybered, badass people (ie PCs) would be able to handle that sort of thing. Sort of a similar idea here, except that instead of cyberpsychos you have alienist hexblade half-dragon balor. Or something.