My game ended. Give me campaign ideas.

[RangerWickett]

So, my game came to an ignominious end. Please give me ideas for what my next game can be. Really, just tell me anything.

 

[Alzrius]

Set it in Ravenloft! You can have the players play as undead creatures from the Requiem! It'd even go great with Libris Mortis! I can't stop using exclamation marks!

 

[Algolei]

If your players have some old, favourite PCs who died and have since been forgotten, have those PCs mysteriously resurrected again at 1st level. Let part of the campaign be spent figuring out how and why they've been brought back to life.

Worked for me!

 

[Timeboxer]

What, anything?

How about something involving a group of jolly and cheery adventurers who are being oppressed by the dominating forces of Good and decide to quest to bring evil back to the land?

Hmm. That could be an interesting Neutral adventure...

 

[Bryin]

modern day, like today, and magic is exposed. some kids about 15-18 gain magical powers, let 1-3 characters use magic depending on how many people want to play.

 

[Someone]

Start at Epic and lose levels intead of gaining them.

 

[Alzrius]

Start at Epic and lose levels intead of gaining them.

Would that mean that wights and vampires (et al) would give your characters levels instead of draining them?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Take Grimm's Fairy Tales and make a straight D&D world out of them, i.e. Red Riding Hood as a lycanthrope hunting ranger, etc. Don't put in anything you can't justify through that lens, and let what appears in those books dictate what appears in the game world.

 

[Veritas]

An idea I had recently was similar to Algolei's, but instead, the characters start off as 1st level. They are told by the priests of the church they are in that they are great heroes that have been brought back to stop a great evil that has resurfaced since the last time the heroes defeated it.

The thing is, the PCs have no idea who they are or who these heroes are. It's like they've been reincarnated, but as completely different characters.

So, you make up a high level group the same size as the current one, and then randomly determine which new character is the reincarnation of which high level character. Now they have to go adventuring to work against this evil and eventually rise high enough in level to defeat it again... clues would be revealed as time went on as to who the different heroes were and what role they played in the defeat of the great evil.

I didn't have a lot of details worked out, but that's the bare-bones of it.

 

[Timeboxer]

Take Grimm's Fairy Tales and make a straight D&D world out of them, i.e. Red Riding Hood as a lycanthrope hunting ranger, etc.

Actually, this reminded me of the thought/idea I had while reading the wonderful webcomic No Rest for the Wicked. Which essentially amounted to, "Wow, the Princess and Red Riding Hood and Puss in Boots make for a really good adventuring party."

So along the same lines -- you could have the players come up with a past-their-prime slightly twisted post-fairy tale character, like a goth grown-up axe-wielding barbarian Red Riding Hood, or a lazy high-Int and -Cha rogue Puss in Boots, or the formerly-Wicked Witch with a public image problem, or Floozy, the eighth and female dwarf fighter who left the group just before they made it big. And then run a fairy-tale-style game with them.