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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zibik" data-source="post: 3400148" data-attributes="member: 43308">I keep a file full of random ideas and blurbs that come to me at the oddest times. Most of my ideas are for modern campaigns but it might spark a few ideas for you.1) All of the major horror icons of our time can be attributed to fowl ups within science.- Vampirism / Lycanthropy / Zombification are all tailored diseases made by governments to help them fight wars.- Demons, Angels, Spirits, and Ghosts are some sort of mental illness (expressed inward or outward).- Magicians / Witches are simply people who use parlor tricks and sometimes technology to pull off there stunts / tricks or psionics unlocked by experimentation.- Monsters Like trolls and goblins are a form of genetic expression or mutation (possibly caused by virii).- Mummification is a rare condition caused by scientists meddling with an atmospheric anomalies. This created a strange type of energy that actually reanimates the body for a period of time.For this reason Science is now banned and most technology is shunned. Anyone caught using it is put to death in some sort of painful and barbaric way. At the same time these "creatures" now live amongst us.2) Present day Humanity slips into a time of darkness...a certain group of individuals (for whatever reason) stumble upon something that gives them their greatest hope. These hopes are the manifestation of man kinds will to survive (indirectly) and these people will help bring hope back to humanity.3) I've been kicking around the idea of using true resurrection on a person long dead as a story point. A Great hero, a terrible villain, or an honored king perhaps. A group could possibly be trying to (re)forge a powerful bloodline by bringing back somebody they feel will bring some trait they want (or the originator of the line). Or some cult wants to resurrect some great evil that was slain ages ago.  Or still perhaps the world is facing some great calamity and needs a hero of old to save them.4) Take the D20 modern Urban Arcana idea and reverse it. Instead of the creatures of shadow coming to our world...we go to theirs. Think about it...deep sea mining companies dealing with merfolk. Air forces fighting dragons. Scientists studying the various oddball races. Scientists attempting to explain magic, Etc etc. Sounds kind of cheesy but I bet it'd be a lot of fun.</blockquote>

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