Dumb Game Ideas: Mash-Ups

[TheSword]

Love a mash up.

Currently just finished a mash up of Keys from the Golden Vault and the Alexandrian remix of Waterdeep Dragonheist with 50% of Paizo’s Curse of the Crimson Throne thrown in. Liked it so much I'm planning on running it again with a different group.

 

[aco175]

Not as cool.

 

[Reynard]

Another one I have always wanted to do is run a grounded, realistic game and then have a Terminator appear. It goes from a heist or murder mystery to a slasher film.

 

[MGibster]

Circa 1990, I came up with a brilliant idea. I asked a friend of mine to run a game of Delta Force except we've got to content with zombies like in Dawn of the Dead. My friend thought that was the stupidest idea in the world but the truth is I was a genius ahead of my time.

For those of you who don't know, Delta Force: America Strikes Back! was released in 1986 and your characters were all members of the United States anti-terrorist unit Delta Force (or SAS if you're of the British persuasion).

 

[aramis erak]

Or, a Star trek adventure that turns into Aliens (although the whole SNW Gorn arc did this already, so it wouldn't be as much of a fun surprise).

Trek has so many crossover eps (TNG, DS9, VOY) that not much is left.
And SNW has covered a bunch more. It's easier to say that Trek is ALL crossovers these days... its core identity is so weakened. Especially in SFA... three eps in, and 2 are outside the space operatic core genre.

What fun mash ups have you done or would you like to do?

Trek: Military ground actions, horror, political actions, courtroom drama, law enforcement, time travel, special operations military. (Prime Directive 1e is "SEALS in Spaaaace!"). Even a Musketeers crossover once.
Traveller (counting Military ground, military space, trouble shooters, and merchantile as core): Horror, time travel, Economics/board room drama, courtroom drama, Medical mysteries... and that all from published stuff. The Tron crossover was a flop. Next time, I set the disks to 6d6 damage.

D&D: Like trek, it's hard to define what's crossover genre-wise. I've done most of the same genre mix-ins as Traveller and Trek. The older I get, the less I enjoy D&D, tho', so calling them Fun may be a stretch.

 

[sevenbastard]

A game where you play Templar Vampires on Motorcycles, i call it Dark Knight Rider

A game about a time traveling Batman after he fights Bane, I call it Broke Back to the Future

The Japanese horror the Ring mixed with space opera, I call it Ringu Star Wars

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

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Where’s Uni?

 

[MGibster]

Where’s Uni?

You're going to want to sit down...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Traveller (counting Military ground, military space, trouble shooters, and merchantile as core): Horror, time travel, Economics/board room drama, courtroom drama, Medical mysteries... and that all from published stuff. The Tron crossover was a flop. Next time, I set the disks to 6d6 damage.

Shoulda done Tron/Trek. Holodeck shenanigans! Deadly disks vs bat’leths!

Kurt Giambastiani’s Cloudfall novels would be a cool “weird west” setting to work with. American westbound expansion encountering dino-riding First Nations tribes?* Gold! You could either play it mundane or add magic via a system like Deadlands.

Spelljammer, but with retrofuturistic piloted automations lifted from your mecha setting of choice. (I know Dragonmech exists, but this is a tad different.)




* If you wanted to, sub out Moas or other giant flightless birds.

 

[aco175]

You're going to want to sit down...
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Now with improved unicorn.