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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pierce" data-source="post: 1277536" data-attributes="member: 12161">Old Drew, as usual.  We came up with a system where he picked a random monster from the 3.5 MM.  He'd then do a quick WP/VP conversion and we'd be set to go.  While he was converting the rest of us threw together terrain for the encounter location.  There was much shooting from the hip.And a tactical vest does pretty much nothin' against lightning strikes.Ya, in our fantasy campaign (currently on hold), we created our own world.  Actually sketched it out literally on a cocktail napkin over beers years ago.  Played it for three years, filling in lots of details.  We keep threatening each other to write it up and publish a PDF, but it's hard enough to keep all our other crap going.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> Playing Modern in our hometown really does make it easier, tho.  You've already got a set history, geography, political and societal arenas.  In a previous episode, the sewer and power grids were fairly important components of the adventure.  Ledded happened across a big plat of the region's power grid system and smuggled it to me before gametime (I was GMing that episode).   The looks on the other players' faces was priceless when they went to talk to a contact at the power company.P1: So where do the main power lines sit?Me: Well, let's see (pulls huge 3'x4' plat of region power grid out from under table and unrolls it)...P1,2&3: Holy CRAP!  <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=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />  <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=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />  <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=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> Me & Ledded:  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Of course, Drew Id is the best at that....</blockquote>

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