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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nuclear Platypus" data-source="post: 2096510" data-attributes="member: 17507">One of the things I liked about the Chaosium Call of Cthulhu was the timeline that went with it since it had all sorts of goodies, mostly with a Lovecraftian twist.'Journey to the Center of the Earth' happened in the late 19th - early 20th Century IIRC. What if the underground people wanted to conquer the aboveworld? Or the vampire lord Dracula has again returned?Hrm. What about the Boxer Rebellion? But it was in 1900 I think. Perhaps its a clash of East meeting West. The LXG could meet conceivably meet an elderly Wong Fei Hong (1847 to 1924) and gain assistance from his young wife (16 in 1903), who was also an accomplished martial artist. Going with this route might have Fu Manchu attempting to push the West out of China, aided by black magic (eunuch sorcerors!), and re-establish a Chinese dynasty with him as the emperor of course.So will the LXG assist their native (European) countries or help the Chinese keep their freedom? "They may take our lives but they will never take our FREEDOM!" *ahem*  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> Ok, action scenes HAVE to have legions of kung fu henchmen vs the PCs. I believe some Chinese attempted to master an art that made the immune to white man's bullets (one of the Once Upon A Time In China movies had such a villain) so there's gotta be some bullet-time action going on with an eventual Matrix-y "Dodge this." line delivered.Eunuch sorcers lobbing spells around, not caring about the mooks (Kill all you want. We'll recruit more.) and summoning monsters / demons to lay some smack down (think the final fight between Lo Pan's minions vs Jack and the gang in Big Trouble in Little China). Gotta have a six demon bag, full of wind, fire, all that jazz. The PCs really need to shake the pillars of heaven but remember the Chinese have a lotta hells.* Take a page from Jackie Chan Adventures, have some villains based off the Chinese horoscope or the I Ching's 8 trigrams. Speaking of which, maybe a good chi wizard like Uncle from Jackie Chan Adventures: "One more thing... " and "Only magic can defeat magic!"Hmm. Chase scenes. Leaping from rooftop to rooftop, wallspring jumping, the works, anything that'd make Jackie Chan proud. Rickshaws racing through the streets like in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Maybe even a rickshaw / horseback (chariot?) chase on the Great Wall.As for the final battle, maybe the BBEG (Fu Manchu) absorbs his minions (12 animals / 8 trigrams) to become FAR more powerful but the PCs have a few tricks up their sleeves as well like the Armor of God or the symbols of the 8 Immortals. Let your PCs go Feng Shui on evil!How's that?*Yeah, I know. I watch too many movies a few too many times but if my calculations are correct, if this thread hits 88 replies, you're gonna see some serious... nevermind.</blockquote>

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