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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mordane76" data-source="post: 860471" data-attributes="member: 7172">Okay -- I'm slowly pulling together a campaign idea, but I want to throw it out into the open and get some feedback and ideas on it.This will be d20 Modern, run in an episodic format (a session is a story), in which the episodes hang together into a grander plotline.  So far, I have a couple characters from my players, and I've kept these in mind as I've started cooking this campaign up.The characters so far:First -- Federal Agent with a lost love and a grudge.  Think an FBI agent mixed with the main character from The Transporter, and you'll have the general impression.Second -- A (VERY) rich-kid with a knack for science and technology.  I'm thinking Richie Rich or Jonny Quest, but I have to get with the player to get a better fix on the character's attitude.Third -- A college kid with a budding career in the information business, who's got ties and connections to a lot of different sources of information and items.There will be at least four other people making characters, but each story will generally only involve three-five players at a time, which is one of the good things about the episodic format.So far, my underlying concept is The Mod-Squad meets CSI or the X-Files; a group of interdepartmental agents works with a group of civilian investigators to solve crimes.  The first few episodes will be mundane crimes, but as the story unfolds, there will be more elements blended in.In the end, as the story begins to take on supernatural elements, I'll be borrowing elements and feel from X-Files, Miracles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Prophecy movies, Call of Cthulhu, Engel, as well as a plethora of other things in this genre.  I know some of my players read this board, so I'm a little reluctant to give out too many details on the how and when of the expanding elements, but I'm seeing something with similiar feelings as White Wolf's World of Darkness when it comes to feelings of hidden menace made manifest, especially since the players will be more or less squishy humans... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I'm looking for some mundane case ideas, and possible some other material I might want to watch/absorb as I'm planning the stories.  Any suggestions?</blockquote>

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