League of Ex Gentlemen Campaign

[Gwaihir]

Has anyone ever run a campaign around this concept? Namely, where the PCs start at very high level and are recognized as legendary heroes?

I was toying with running a short D&D campaign along these lines, where each hero is a ficticious character brought to life to fight a specific threat. The Heroes would not be our worlds ficticious heroes, but a D&D worlds ficiticious heroes.

Any thoughts on this? I was even thinking I might pit them against the last few adventures of Age of Worms?

 

[Warren Okuma]

In Champions, not DnD...

 

[Pozatronic]

Has anyone ever run a campaign around this concept? Namely, where the PCs start at very high level and are recognized as legendary heroes?

I was toying with running a short D&D campaign along these lines, where each hero is a ficticious character brought to life to fight a specific threat. The Heroes would not be our worlds ficticious heroes, but a D&D worlds ficiticious heroes.

Any thoughts on this? I was even thinking I might pit them against the last few adventures of Age of Worms?

Are you saying that you would use fictional DnD characters that have already been published (Drizzt, Kitiara, Elminster, Warduke, etc), or are you saying that you would use fictional characters that are "in game"....fictional characters from your own world? I can't think of any characters that are fictitious in the meta sense from any dnd campaign.

I can see the first option working ok. Taking characters from various settings and using them together. But the second option, not so much. The thing that makes the original LXG so neat is that it's based on characters that pretty much everybody knows. There's years and years of history available to these characters, something that your own fictional characters would lack (unless, of course, you've written hundreds of stories about said characters and your players have read them all).

Taking other characters from other fantasy literary sources wouldn't be so bad. I'm thinking of characters from other works of fantasy. Conan, Fafhrd, Cyrion, Bilbo, etc. Actually, that probably would be bad....

 

[phindar]

What was the 1e module that printed stats for the D&D action figures? Heart of the something something? It had Warduke, Strongheart, Bowmarc, Grimsword... I might be getting these names all backwards. (And really, why not? Strongsword, Warheart, Bowduke seem just as good.) Ringlerum... the evil Ringlerum... the chick with the flail, the half-orc assassin guy... the guy that didn't wear a shirt. This is going to bug me for awhile. I used to own that module. (I might still have it packed away somewhere.)

Aha, the internet! XL-1 Quest for the Heartstone. I don't know why they thought Strongheart and Warduke would be good characters for people to play in the same party; it seems like this module was designed around getting middle-school kids to fight.

 

[Gwaihir]

The thing that makes the original LXG so neat is that it's based on characters that pretty much everybody knows. There's years and years of history available to these characters, something that your own fictional characters would lack

Hmm. Methinks you are right. Thanks for the input.

 

[RedFox]

Y'know, I clicked on this thread thinking it would be about a campaign where every PC had been a guy who put on a girdle of masculinity/femininity...

...which totally isn't what this thread is about. :\

 

[Gwaihir]

Y'know, I clicked on this thread thinking it would be about a campaign where every PC had been a guy who put on a girdle of masculinity/femininity...

...which totally isn't what this thread is about. :\

Though that would be fun in kinda a bizzare way. So long as the players didn't know it was coming.

 

[Mercule]

Y'know, I clicked on this thread thinking it would be about a campaign where every PC had been a guy who put on a girdle of masculinity/femininity...

...which totally isn't what this thread is about. :\

Almost word-for-word what I was about to say.