If I could get a regular game going...

[JPL]

Back in December, I did a d20 Modern one-shot called "The Curse of Hanoi Xan." Victorian-era proto-pulp, with a shot of Fu Manchu and a shot of Sherlock Holmes.

If I could get a regular game going...

Next adventure, it's the 1930s. The immortal Xan returns, and one now-elderly hero from the first adventure returns with a new group of adventuers to save the day. This one would borrow even more heavily than the first from Indy and Doc Savage.

Next adventure, it's the 1960s, and we do a James Bond/Mission: Impossible mod spy adventure, as Xan plagues another generation of heroes. Same idea --- there's one senior member carried over from the last adventure [or maybe someone's son].

Big finale...2003. I throw some of the current action-adventure ideas into the hopper [24 and the Matrix, for starters] and take Xan out once and for all in a giant summer blockbuster of a showdown. Maybe Xan has abandoned the traditional Oriental mastermind schtick for shades and a black trenchcoat, but his century-long plan is coming to fruition...

But I never get a chance to game, it looks like I'll be working a lot more hours in the near future, and it will exist only in my mind...

 

[Tanstaafl]

That's too bad... this sounds like fun.

 

[JPL]

That's too bad... this sounds like fun.

I'd also thought about a 50's atomic communist monster adventure [I set up a race of reptilian aliens in the first adventure] and a 1970s kung-fu/blaxploitation urban martial arts whoo-hah.

Yep, this would be fun...

 

[Voneth]

Check out the upcoming "Grim Tales" (August) by Bad Axe Games.

It's focused on supplying your d20/d20M games with pulp stuff from SF to Horror, it looks ... interesting.

 

[Gospog]

JPL,

These games sounds like a blast!

Why can't you get a regular group?
It can't be your sales pitch!


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[JPL]

JPL,

These games sounds like a blast!

Why can't you get a regular group?
It can't be your sales pitch!


(edited for punctuation)

Oh, I live out in the boonies, I work too many hours, I'm married. The usual complaints.

So instead of gaming, my real hobby is thinking about gaming.

But thanks for your support. About once a week, I send an e-mail out to two of my gamer buddies pitching a game, we all agree that that would be a darn fine game, and then I go back to the real world...

 

[Shadow_Chicago]

Gaming in the Boonies

JPL,

I feel your pain. Even in Chicago it is hard get a game going. When I get a bit bored or am between games I usually get a group together via irc and game that way. You can set up a bot that does the die rolling and there are some plug ins that will allow you to draw maps via a whiteboard.

Maybe you can get together with your email buddies that way. Hell I might even sit in on a game, because your campaigns sound pretty cool.

Take it easy.

 

[Tanstaafl]

Or put together a pbp game on this board... I'm sure you'd have enough interest & it's less of a strict time commitment than table-top or irc.

 

[JPL]

I'm worried that were I to start gaming online, I'd soon be doing it at work, and end up unemployed [or employed but massively unproductive].

 

[takyris]

You don't have to stop in the present-day. You can take it into the future, with cybertech warfare or giant robots or, heck, Xan commandeering the first interstellar starship in an attempt to storm the gates of heaven and seize the stuff of the universe for his own power!

Or, you know, whatever.

Ahem.