I stole my encounter from a Stargate episode and my players liked it
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Wolv0rine
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Ahh, that was a good ep, yeah. 
As far as stealing things from TV, after being begging and connived into DMing for a good 2 weeks by a few friends who were, like me, DM-less... I hit upon an idea I thought would cure them of wanting Me to be the fill-in DM. I designed an entire adventure around the camera path taken during the opening theme song to Tales from the Crypt (where it starts off at the gate, and winds throug the house, through the secret passage, into the sub-basement, and there he is). We all watched the show regularly, so I figured everyone would recognize it. When we actually got around to playing it, Tales from the Crypt actually came on the friggin' TV. And not one of them suspected what I'd done the entire night.
Of course, in true "I suck as a DM" fashion, I forgot to place one of the secret doors on my map, and they spent about 2 hours wandering around wondering where to go next before I spotted my blunder. But that's what they got for talking me into DMing when I didn't want to.
As far as stealing things from TV, after being begging and connived into DMing for a good 2 weeks by a few friends who were, like me, DM-less... I hit upon an idea I thought would cure them of wanting Me to be the fill-in DM. I designed an entire adventure around the camera path taken during the opening theme song to Tales from the Crypt (where it starts off at the gate, and winds throug the house, through the secret passage, into the sub-basement, and there he is). We all watched the show regularly, so I figured everyone would recognize it. When we actually got around to playing it, Tales from the Crypt actually came on the friggin' TV. And not one of them suspected what I'd done the entire night.
Of course, in true "I suck as a DM" fashion, I forgot to place one of the secret doors on my map, and they spent about 2 hours wandering around wondering where to go next before I spotted my blunder. But that's what they got for talking me into DMing when I didn't want to.
Psychic Warrior
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Holy timely threads Batman! Just this past weekend I ran a one-shot Cyberpunk game modelled after 28 Days Later (the 'zmobie' movie with a super infectious disease runnign rampant across the globe). In this case it was a corp trying to dominate the bioweapons market but their virus was just too strong to be contained. it even was adapted to the Net and infected netrunners around the world. In the end the PCs had a blazing firefight from their car as they smashed throught the final wave of infected on New Year's Eve. they joined up with a Nomad and Booster gang and fled to the desert. I also had a set up where they could have stormed the Corp's HQ and escape to an orbitting space station. The infection broke out slowly amoung the poor and, considering the slums dominate most of the world's population, broke into the rich areas of the city (and major cities around the world too) and wiped out millions.
I called it the 'Last Cyberpunk Adventure'. I hadn't played that in years and we all had a blast.
I called it the 'Last Cyberpunk Adventure'. I hadn't played that in years and we all had a blast.
Templetroll
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I once ran a scenario based on the "John Carpenter's The Fog" The players were in this small seaside village and this fog came rolling in. The party tracked the zombies to a shipwreck and fought the captain of the ship, a ju-ju zombie. They only had one magic weapon and as one of them would fall another took the sword while the cleric would drag the downed one away and cast a cure on them! Eventually, the one character was not able to be saved and the next one went down and the last character got a good shot in and killed the captain with 3 hitpoints left.
This was one of the few sessions I let the TV be on, just sound off,, while we gamed. Partway through the thing my wife glanced at the TV, listened to me describe something occurring, then smiled and called me bastard because the scene I was describing was what was onscreen at the time.
[edit: just saw wolv0rine's post! that's hilarious, but great thing to have happen. I dunno if yo want to risk running a dvd but it could be cool.]
The next thing to try sometime is the "Wonderful Life" scenario. What would life be like without the party. I did a variation on it in a superhero game where each hero was sent back in time and all but one accidently stopped or altered the origin story of another hero in the group! The one who didn't allowed the hero the player was most annoyed by to continue to exist. When they returned to their own time they found that hero was the ONLY one still in existance! They then worked to help out in that world and the uberhero helped them to get back in time and stop themselves from messing with the origins. In each case the hero who was there the first time was in a ghostlike state, unable to do anything except communicate with their comrades.
This was one of the few sessions I let the TV be on, just sound off,, while we gamed. Partway through the thing my wife glanced at the TV, listened to me describe something occurring, then smiled and called me bastard because the scene I was describing was what was onscreen at the time.
[edit: just saw wolv0rine's post! that's hilarious, but great thing to have happen. I dunno if yo want to risk running a dvd but it could be cool.]The next thing to try sometime is the "Wonderful Life" scenario. What would life be like without the party. I did a variation on it in a superhero game where each hero was sent back in time and all but one accidently stopped or altered the origin story of another hero in the group! The one who didn't allowed the hero the player was most annoyed by to continue to exist. When they returned to their own time they found that hero was the ONLY one still in existance! They then worked to help out in that world and the uberhero helped them to get back in time and stop themselves from messing with the origins. In each case the hero who was there the first time was in a ghostlike state, unable to do anything except communicate with their comrades.
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Hammerhead
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I can't think of a single session where I have not stolen an idea from a movie, TV Show, book, or fellow DM (thank you Story Hour forum!)
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