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<blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 3886570" data-attributes="member: 23977">So the other day when driving to a friends house for our weekly game I had an idea for a new campaign...Campaign would be modern d20... Players would be asked to make heroes, but to so far keep them as normal people.. IE normal jobs and such, probably won't be walking around with crazy automatic weapons, equipment etc... Players would have no real idea of the theme tone or story of the campaign. Only that it's modern...Campaign starts one morning while they are going to work on one of the subways in Philly. (I used to live in Philly and grew up in the area so I know it well enough to be comfortable setting a campaign there...) Suddenly the train is rocked and thrown off track. There is a horrific crash, and the first challenge is to survive it.Once that is done, all power is out, and players need to get off of the train (maybe burning?) and maybe rescue whomever they can. Outside they will find considerable destruction to the tunnel. The emergency phones seem to be inoperable. All cell phones are out etc...Next challenge, get out of the tunnel.The idea would be to keep them in the dark (pun intended) for a few sessions... When they finally make it out of the tunnels, they find the city seems to be in pretty bad shape. Many collapsed buldings, fires, floods, dead bodies etc...Welcome to the world after an asteroid impact. Only thy won't know that. They'll just know there's been a huge disaster. Most of the survivors think it was a nuclear attack, but no one is really sure.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scribble, post: 3886570, member: 23977"] So the other day when driving to a friends house for our weekly game I had an idea for a new campaign... Campaign would be modern d20... Players would be asked to make heroes, but to so far keep them as normal people.. IE normal jobs and such, probably won't be walking around with crazy automatic weapons, equipment etc... Players would have no real idea of the theme tone or story of the campaign. Only that it's modern... Campaign starts one morning while they are going to work on one of the subways in Philly. (I used to live in Philly and grew up in the area so I know it well enough to be comfortable setting a campaign there...) Suddenly the train is rocked and thrown off track. There is a horrific crash, and the first challenge is to survive it. Once that is done, all power is out, and players need to get off of the train (maybe burning?) and maybe rescue whomever they can. Outside they will find considerable destruction to the tunnel. The emergency phones seem to be inoperable. All cell phones are out etc... Next challenge, get out of the tunnel. The idea would be to keep them in the dark (pun intended) for a few sessions... When they finally make it out of the tunnels, they find the city seems to be in pretty bad shape. Many collapsed buldings, fires, floods, dead bodies etc... Welcome to the world after an asteroid impact. Only thy won't know that. They'll just know there's been a huge disaster. Most of the survivors think it was a nuclear attack, but no one is really sure. [/QUOTE]

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