Lurks-no-More
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Mythusmage, you deserve a long, happy and productive life, with constant internet access of course, so you can produce more of these brilliant ideas.
Thank you.
Thank you.
d20 Modern campaign idea: Sam Spade vs. Fu Manchu, Ming the Merciless, and Cthuhlu
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Wow what a Great Idea. I am running a 20's Call of Cthulhu game with heavy Dashall Hammet overtones. Most of my characters work for the "Black Mask" a mystery/crime mag. Dashall Hammett wrote for the real "Black Mask" magazine in the 20's and 30's. I have been toying with doing a Thin Man meets Cthulhu Mythos story for a while but your Lord of the Rings idea is wonderful.
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Glad to see some folks will be using one of my brainstorms. If you'd like to keep me on the Internet, I do take donations at my website.
I am incorporating Cthulhoid elements in my d20 Modern setting. Seems there are bad things occurring at the deep space observatory on Pluto, and the usual suspects are being eliminated (sometimes literally) one by one. Leaving...
In case you're wondering, it is theoretically possible to teleport from star to star, but first you have to establish a gate near that other star. Astral and Ethereal travel will take you from plane to plane, dimension to dimension, but not star to star. So no contact with extra solar worlds, though such are known of.
Glad to see some folks will be using one of my brainstorms. If you'd like to keep me on the Internet, I do take donations at my website.
I am incorporating Cthulhoid elements in my d20 Modern setting. Seems there are bad things occurring at the deep space observatory on Pluto, and the usual suspects are being eliminated (sometimes literally) one by one. Leaving...
In case you're wondering, it is theoretically possible to teleport from star to star, but first you have to establish a gate near that other star. Astral and Ethereal travel will take you from plane to plane, dimension to dimension, but not star to star. So no contact with extra solar worlds, though such are known of.
That sounds like a possibility. However, the Manhattan Project didn't get started until 1942. Still, anything that features Nazi villains is a good thing.
I was thinking more along the lines of an ancient Chinese herb. One the Yellow Emperor himself declared utterly anathema, and ordered destroyed. The herb's active ingredient totally destroys a person's will, making him the slave of whoever has enough moxie to give him orders.
The scion of an ancient mandarin family has isolated the active ingredient, and turned it into an aerosol. "Sauron's" plan is to spread it over the world by means of the jet stream, while he and a few advisors stay safe inside a hermetically sealed room. But first they need to get it out of the safe. That's where the ring comes in.
Along with a complicated series of locks to be opened by key and combination, the ring must be placed in a small, ring-shaped depression. Once that is done the safe opens and the "essence" can be removed.
As long as the "essence" is in existence, humanity is in peril. Once our heroes learn about it, they need to find a way to destroy it. And to destroy it they have to get ahold of it.
That is where the ring comes in. They need to take the ring into "Sauron's" lair and use it to access the "essence".
"Sauron" (let's call him Wing Lu) is a handsome man with more than his share of charm. He can also be a cold, vicious fellow when angered. Though even then he never loses control. He is also passionate about the Byzantine Empire, and a great admirer of the Emperor Justinian. He can go on for hours about his favorite subject. Furthermore, Wing Lu likes to think of himself as the reincarnation of the Byzantine general, Belasarius.
(I do hope somebody is compiling all this stuff together, 'cuz I'm pulling all this out of thin air.
)
I was thinking more along the lines of an ancient Chinese herb. One the Yellow Emperor himself declared utterly anathema, and ordered destroyed. The herb's active ingredient totally destroys a person's will, making him the slave of whoever has enough moxie to give him orders.
The scion of an ancient mandarin family has isolated the active ingredient, and turned it into an aerosol. "Sauron's" plan is to spread it over the world by means of the jet stream, while he and a few advisors stay safe inside a hermetically sealed room. But first they need to get it out of the safe. That's where the ring comes in.
Along with a complicated series of locks to be opened by key and combination, the ring must be placed in a small, ring-shaped depression. Once that is done the safe opens and the "essence" can be removed.
As long as the "essence" is in existence, humanity is in peril. Once our heroes learn about it, they need to find a way to destroy it. And to destroy it they have to get ahold of it.
That is where the ring comes in. They need to take the ring into "Sauron's" lair and use it to access the "essence".
"Sauron" (let's call him Wing Lu) is a handsome man with more than his share of charm. He can also be a cold, vicious fellow when angered. Though even then he never loses control. He is also passionate about the Byzantine Empire, and a great admirer of the Emperor Justinian. He can go on for hours about his favorite subject. Furthermore, Wing Lu likes to think of himself as the reincarnation of the Byzantine general, Belasarius.
(I do hope somebody is compiling all this stuff together, 'cuz I'm pulling all this out of thin air.
)
tetsujin28
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My ex-roomate is good friends with the guys from RCR.
If you're going to do that sort of campaign, though, you have to rent a copy of Cast a Deadly Spell, which is an absolute hoot. Avoid its sequel, Witchhunt, though.
If you're going to do that sort of campaign, though, you have to rent a copy of Cast a Deadly Spell, which is an absolute hoot. Avoid its sequel, Witchhunt, though.
