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<blockquote data-quote="Jd Smith1" data-source="post: 9435517" data-attributes="member: 6998052">I have got the material for a scenario I plan to run in an upcoming campaign, but I can't pull it together for the life of me.The campaign is set in 1889, using Aces &amp; Eights rules, very historical. The PCs are rail detectives for the Union Pacific. The UP is ramming the rails forward, using, as they historically did, Chinese labor in a near-slavery status, losing the traditional two lives per mile.So, you have the rail workers, multiple tongs (organized criminal gangs) providing gambling, girls (human trafficking), and opium: the traditional triad of the railways of the time, keeping the workers sufficiently distracted. Plus reformers raising Cain about opium and human trafficking. And inevitably a few brave souls among the Chinese workers who are trying to get the labor organized for better conditions and wages.You've got language, cultural, and social barriers.The PCs must identify and crush any union-making, ensure that the gambling, girls, and opium doesn't get out of control, keep the Tongs from shedding too much blood or get too powerful/cocky, and ensure that the reformers don't get hurt and also do not mess up the crucial pressure release that is gambling, girls, and opium (which keep the work force semi-pacified).It actually has the potential to encompass several sessions.But I can't get it off the ground. The parts are all there, there is tremendous potential, and yet I cannot assemble these great parts into a viable scenario(s).Anyone have a suggestion? Something to get me started? I've got two dozen scenarios already prepped, and I'm creatively fried.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jd Smith1, post: 9435517, member: 6998052"] I have got the material for a scenario I plan to run in an upcoming campaign, but I can't pull it together for the life of me. The campaign is set in 1889, using Aces & Eights rules, very historical. The PCs are rail detectives for the Union Pacific. The UP is ramming the rails forward, using, as they historically did, Chinese labor in a near-slavery status, losing the traditional two lives per mile. So, you have the rail workers, multiple tongs (organized criminal gangs) providing gambling, girls (human trafficking), and opium: the traditional triad of the railways of the time, keeping the workers sufficiently distracted. Plus reformers raising Cain about opium and human trafficking. And inevitably a few brave souls among the Chinese workers who are trying to get the labor organized for better conditions and wages. You've got language, cultural, and social barriers. The PCs must identify and crush any union-making, ensure that the gambling, girls, and opium doesn't get out of control, keep the Tongs from shedding too much blood or get too powerful/cocky, and ensure that the reformers don't get hurt and also do not mess up the crucial pressure release that is gambling, girls, and opium (which keep the work force semi-pacified). It actually has the potential to encompass several sessions. But I can't get it off the ground. The parts are all there, there is tremendous potential, and yet I cannot assemble these great parts into a viable scenario(s). Anyone have a suggestion? Something to get me started? I've got two dozen scenarios already prepped, and I'm creatively fried. [/QUOTE]

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