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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5166253" data-attributes="member: 20741"><p>It's not D&D, but I'd like to play in a D20 Modern cum D20Future hybrid of an alien invasion campaign.</p><p></p><p>Sort of "V" meets X-Com - with potentially an apocalyptic Fallout, but more like Niven/Pournelle's <em>Footfall</em> style disaster. No <em>Battlefield Earth</em> please. <em>Red Dawn</em> with Aliens? Ok. I'm in for that.</p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Independence Day</em> where the Aliens didn't get their asses kicked (yet). That would do too.</p><p></p><p>I don't want the Aliens to be known. I want something unexpected that I haven't a frkkin CLUE as to who they are, what they want, what they look like or how to stop them. When something alien is described, I don't want to say "oh that's "xx" from the Monster Manual II. I want to be CLUELESS, MYSTIFIED, TENSE and AFRAID.</p><p></p><p>Not too Cthulhuish please. I don't want to despair. This isn't Delta Green by other means.</p><p></p><p>No magic please or tech that is so over the top, it might as well be magic. No "I win" Alien psionic red button either. </p><p></p><p>"If it bleeds - we can kill it" sort of thing. If we nuke them (successfully) - they are going to be <span style="color: Orange"><strong>D-E-A-D -- No save.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Orange"></span> </p><p>Totally home brewed. I don't want to know what's going to happen -- and I want to figure it out as we go along.</p><p></p><p>That's pretty much the game I wanted to run. Turns out one of the players didn't want to play it - so we ended up with <em>Star Wars: The Old Republic</em> instead. That's turned out extremely well - so I'm good with how that went.</p><p></p><p>But given a choice between Vanilla Pathfinder and Alienesque Apocalypse? Yeah - gimme the aliens and IEDs that go *boom*.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 5166253, member: 20741"] It's not D&D, but I'd like to play in a D20 Modern cum D20Future hybrid of an alien invasion campaign. Sort of "V" meets X-Com - with potentially an apocalyptic Fallout, but more like Niven/Pournelle's [I]Footfall[/I] style disaster. No [I]Battlefield Earth[/I] please. [I]Red Dawn[/I] with Aliens? Ok. I'm in for that. [I] Independence Day[/I] where the Aliens didn't get their asses kicked (yet). That would do too. I don't want the Aliens to be known. I want something unexpected that I haven't a frkkin CLUE as to who they are, what they want, what they look like or how to stop them. When something alien is described, I don't want to say "oh that's "xx" from the Monster Manual II. I want to be CLUELESS, MYSTIFIED, TENSE and AFRAID. Not too Cthulhuish please. I don't want to despair. This isn't Delta Green by other means. No magic please or tech that is so over the top, it might as well be magic. No "I win" Alien psionic red button either. "If it bleeds - we can kill it" sort of thing. If we nuke them (successfully) - they are going to be [COLOR=Orange][B]D-E-A-D -- No save.[/B] [/COLOR] Totally home brewed. I don't want to know what's going to happen -- and I want to figure it out as we go along. That's pretty much the game I wanted to run. Turns out one of the players didn't want to play it - so we ended up with [I]Star Wars: The Old Republic[/I] instead. That's turned out extremely well - so I'm good with how that went. But given a choice between Vanilla Pathfinder and Alienesque Apocalypse? Yeah - gimme the aliens and IEDs that go *boom*. [/QUOTE]
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