spider_minion
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Sounds like good cheesy fun. I think this would make for an amusing mini-campaign. Oh, and somehow you need a PC to bring a car along. I haven't seen the D&D cartoon, but it does remind me a bit of Army of Darkness.
So how stupid is this campaign idea?
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Psychic Warrior
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I voted option #1 as words failed me. I hope it is taken in the manner in which it was written.
The main problem I se is that you will end up railroading the players. A lot. That is esentially what the D&D cartoon was all about. The DM jerked them around from one place to another. The PCs never got invovled with the setting never met important people or formed relationships outside of their adventuring group. I just don't think it would be a terribly fun way to play.
The main problem I se is that you will end up railroading the players. A lot. That is esentially what the D&D cartoon was all about. The DM jerked them around from one place to another. The PCs never got invovled with the setting never met important people or formed relationships outside of their adventuring group. I just don't think it would be a terribly fun way to play.
Aust Diamondew
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Amen.Psychic Warrior said:
Now if you just said make d20 modern characters and THEN you suddenly thrust them into a fantasy world with out forcing archtypes on them or any corny DM showing up it'd be cool.
I voted "Words can't describe [...]" since the only idea I was able to see was:
So how stupid is this idea?
Given no other information, I went with what I knew...someone was having a poll to see how stupid people think it is to have polls with no information.
Which reiterates the request for a change in polling.
The front news page is an inappropriate place to ask for a vote on a poll because the manner in which polls are set up prevents the poll content from joining the poll header. I have voted "incorrectly" on many polls because the important information (that radically changes my answer) is located in the first post... not in the poll header.
So how stupid is this idea?
Given no other information, I went with what I knew...someone was having a poll to see how stupid people think it is to have polls with no information.
Which reiterates the request for a change in polling.
The front news page is an inappropriate place to ask for a vote on a poll because the manner in which polls are set up prevents the poll content from joining the poll header. I have voted "incorrectly" on many polls because the important information (that radically changes my answer) is located in the first post... not in the poll header.
Turanil
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It's the basis for a good campaign. However it needs more work.
I can remember of
-- One comic book based on that theme: Den by Corben. Den is a US nerd who gets a letter from his uncle asking him to operate some machinery (don't tell the whole thing since it's unimportant). In doing this the nerd is plane-shifted into a world of sword and sorcery, except that he isn't a nerd anymore, but a much powerful nude barbarian with 19 Strength by the name of Den.
-- One novel based on that theme: Three Heart & Three Lions by Poul Anderson. In this book a man from the XXth century is brought into a medieval world of legend. The really cool thing is that despite having got the identity of an Arthurian knight, the hero still remember everything from his world, and keeps analyzing things and dealing with problems using his knowledge of modern sciences.
So, let the players create 3rd level PCs using d20 Modern rules, but they know this will be eventually D&D. Then have the PCs transported into a "real" fantasy world for some mystical reason. Example: the BBEG cannot be killed by a native of this world, yet prophecies tell he will be killed by some humans. So a high level priest or wizard summoned the PCs into this world. Thereafter, make adventures so the PCs could use modern knowledge to their advantage in this world. For example, when having to deal with events people don't understand and have much superstitions about (like diseases being viruses carried away because lack of hygiene).
I can remember of
-- One comic book based on that theme: Den by Corben. Den is a US nerd who gets a letter from his uncle asking him to operate some machinery (don't tell the whole thing since it's unimportant). In doing this the nerd is plane-shifted into a world of sword and sorcery, except that he isn't a nerd anymore, but a much powerful nude barbarian with 19 Strength by the name of Den.
-- One novel based on that theme: Three Heart & Three Lions by Poul Anderson. In this book a man from the XXth century is brought into a medieval world of legend. The really cool thing is that despite having got the identity of an Arthurian knight, the hero still remember everything from his world, and keeps analyzing things and dealing with problems using his knowledge of modern sciences.
So, let the players create 3rd level PCs using d20 Modern rules, but they know this will be eventually D&D. Then have the PCs transported into a "real" fantasy world for some mystical reason. Example: the BBEG cannot be killed by a native of this world, yet prophecies tell he will be killed by some humans. So a high level priest or wizard summoned the PCs into this world. Thereafter, make adventures so the PCs could use modern knowledge to their advantage in this world. For example, when having to deal with events people don't understand and have much superstitions about (like diseases being viruses carried away because lack of hygiene).
John Q. Mayhem
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There's also the Guardians of the Flame series. That's not bad, IMO.
The idea is good if you have less railroading. What would be really cool would be to have the players play themselves as D20 Modern characters.
The idea is good if you have less railroading. What would be really cool would be to have the players play themselves as D20 Modern characters.
Our first campaign was us making college kids and we started playing a game related to university, going to class, blah blah blah and BAM! We're transported to this weird new world. I posted elsewhere about the character herself, but basically, we each picked our class. 2 fighters, a paladin, a wizard and a thief. It was a lot of fun. No railroading.
