Favorite campaign that you NEVER played/ran.

[doghead]

The Enemy Within is my dream. I bought it but refuse to read it in hopes someone will run it for me.

Hopefully you do. I remember really enjoying it.

thotd

 

[doghead]

I think it would be The Traveller Adventure along with a bunch of the Traveller Adventures.

thotd

 

[Riley]

Back in the 90s I imagined a huge campaign, trying to do something both sandbox-y and on the scale of Babylon 5's big storytelling.

Part 1 would open with an overwhelming, technologically-advanced invasion of the PC's peaceful mountain valley backwater by a powerful mostly-dwarven kingdom. The PCs might discover the invasion is driven by Hellish influences - and they could try to undermine the invasion, organize a resistance, investigate/resolve the corrupting Hellish influences, and/or delve dungeons in search of artifacts which could be used to solve the situation. Whatever they wanted.

If by chance we ever resolved (or bored of) that Part 1 (hah!), Part 2 could open with the campaign world actually being sucked into Hell a la A Paladin in Hell - probably with the PCs escaping off-world when it happened. They could embark on a Planescape adventure, perhaps to find and/or save their world from its Hellish fate, or - again - whatever they wanted.

The potential ideas were ridiculously big, but I also imagined any number of possible goals/end-points the players might pursue, and I felt I had a pretty good notion of how I could accomodate whatever, and still be able to find a reasonably satisfactory end-point for the PC's probable eventual victory.

The campaign was ridiculously ambitious - even before career, marriage, and family subsumed so much of my time.
And over a period of 6 months, the players in that gaming group suddenly scattered themselves across the country.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I had an idea for a sequel to my very first AD&D campaign, where the characters are all the children of the original characters. But those players are mostly scattered to the winds now.

Still hoping to one day do an all-dwarves campaign.

 

[Reynard]

One I have always wanted to do but can't figure out the logistics is a play by post supers campaign where I engage each player separately and then every week or month or whatever put out a newspaper with stories about what went on. Players don't know who else is playing or even which heroes or villains are players or NPCs.

 

[payn]

One I have always wanted to do but can't figure out the logistics is a play by post supers campaign where I engage each player separately and then every week or month or whatever put out a newspaper with stories about what went on. Players don't know who else is playing or even which heroes or villains are players or NPCs.

Im not really into supers but that idea sounds great.

 

[AnotherGuy]

One I have always wanted to do but can't figure out the logistics is a play by post supers campaign where I engage each player separately and then every week or month or whatever put out a newspaper with stories about what went on. Players don't know who else is playing or even which heroes or villains are players or NPCs.

My friend did something similar in a sense for a space exploration game where neither of the characters (starship captains) were connected, it was quite engaging but it got too big I suspect. I do remember some of the players were not fast enough with their replies (he preferred a weekly turn-around) and the GM either could not cope with the scope or became frustrated or both.

Your idea for the supers game seems to be a good fit for that theme. You should do it!

 

[Golden Bee]

I bought the Lot5R Second City boxed set 10 years ago, and traded it away last year unplayed. Looked interesting, but never got around it.

LoT5R Chicago improv??

 

[delericho]

I always wanted to run the old "Age of Worms" adventure path from Dungeon magazine, transplanted to the Dark Sun setting. IIRC there was an issue with one of the later adventures featuring a multitude of dragons (when DS handles dragons very differently), but otherwise it felt like a good fit.

I think that's the only real "one that got away" - shortly after that point I stopped filing campaigns into the "one day" category as I realised one day was almost certainly never.

 

[GuyBoy]

I’ve run it as DM, but I’d love to be a player in the GDQ series.