Friday The 13th The Series...

[Golem2176]

...for A D20 Modern Campaign. I could use this campaign as an excuse to use my Urban Arcana book. Anyway, any thoughts or ideas?

 

[takyris]

I tried to play in a d20 Modern campaign based on the series. Angelsboi was the GM. It ended up not going well. In order to get the feel of the series, the average intelligent PC was shoehorned into doing stupid stuff to activate the curse.

Although possibly that was just a mark on Angelsboi's campaign, which was rushed, then scattered, then gone.

 

[LoneWolf23]

From the episodes I've seen of the Friday the 13th series, it revolved around the relatives of a late antiques shop owner who'd made a deal with the devil to sell Horribly Cursed items, and their quest to recover those items to lock them away forever. Sounds like Angelsboi didn't do that...

 

[Golem2176]

From the episodes I've seen of the Friday the 13th series, it revolved around the relatives of a late antiques shop owner who'd made a deal with the devil to sell Horribly Cursed items, and their quest to recover those items to lock them away forever. Sounds like Angelsboi didn't do that...

LoneWolf23 has it down. Basically there would be four to five pcs trying to recover cursed antiques. Also I was thinking of throwing in some ideas from another short lived show called Are You Afraid of the Dark?. It had some good plots as well.

 

[takyris]

No, truth be told, he did try to stick close to the series -- it was just that the guys in the series suffered from Idiot Syndrome a bit too often, doing things to keep the plot moving. We went from "Magic? Bah, superstitious nonsense" to "Well, if magic exists, then we're obviously not touching that antique gun," and Angelsboi sort of compensated by declaring that we did stupid stuff -- taking control of PCs. That has to be done sometimes in PbP games, but it ended up feeling forced.

 

[LoneWolf23]

No, truth be told, he did try to stick close to the series -- it was just that the guys in the series suffered from Idiot Syndrome a bit too often, doing things to keep the plot moving. We went from "Magic? Bah, superstitious nonsense" to "Well, if magic exists, then we're obviously not touching that antique gun," and Angelsboi sort of compensated by declaring that we did stupid stuff -- taking control of PCs. That has to be done sometimes in PbP games, but it ended up feeling forced.

Ah, ok... Sounds like he should've used NPCs for the "Idiot Syndrome" situations..