What does a tank graveyard mean to you in your game?

[A_Carrington]

With a cursory search I only got a single search result (not a googlewhack unfortunately, as the query is more than two words), which was a blog post where the primary phrase doesn't appear anywhere. Weird. I'll look further when I get home.

 

[dragoner]

Likely a dump for tanks, more poetic than saying junkyard.

 

[Zardnaar]

I think it was either what is dungeons and dragons or role playing mastery.

As for the phrase.
I could also see a wierd wars where you come across a battle where there are littered ruined tanks and the crews of the dead animate when pesky adventurers get too close.

Alternatively, what if it is a warhammer 40k pleasure world done like world of tanks?

We did a D6 World if Tanks insured RPG session once lol. Using Star Wars hack.

You coukd theoretically do a D&D one.

 

[coyote6]

For my D&D game, I don't think I'd use it. I'm running a relatively low-wahoo Greyhawk game, so the only "tanks" would be the container type, and it doesn't really make much sense.

OTOH, my Shadowrun game - yeah, a tank junkyard. The MacGuffin Mr. Johnson wants got traced to a driver in a tank unit, the vehicles of which are believed to have ended up in this junkyard. Set it in eastern Russia, the Chinese states, or maybe somewhere in Central or South America after the Aztlan-Amazonia war. (Or, if it's late enough in the timeline, perhaps somewhere the Sioux Nation and UCAS fought it out.)

Throw in some toxic magic (because depleted uranium, etc.); maybe an unholy alliance between a toxic shaman and a dissonance technomancer. They are working together to try to build an Ogre or Berserker - a self-motivated super-tank. Rebuild a tank, then throw in a possession-capable toxic spirit and a sprite or a crazy AI.

Naturally, the tank with the MacGuffin has been incorporated in their madness.

Is such a thing - a self-aware super-tank - even possible? Who knows? It's still likely to produce horrific effects (free toxic spirit, anyone? maybe Great Form?), and the nutjobs are standing between the runners and their paydata, so, yeah, going to have to deal with that drek. Somehow.

 

[Zardnaar]

How about artificers bombing around Avernus in hell tanks?

 

[Shades of Eternity]

How about artificers bombing around Avernus in hell tanks?

Kwalish's Revenge.
They sent him to hell, but he's the Gnome that brought hell to them!
Rated R.

 

[Zardnaar]

Kwalish's Revenge.
They sent him to hell, but he's the Gnome that brought hell to them!
Rated R.

How about a PC named Kaiser Von Loopy who has a Tonk that can wildshape into a fiendish Dire Tiger?

Theres also a bigger one but it tends to fall in lakes while the Panther variant was built by Krynnish Gnomes.

Roll a d6 on a 5 or 6 it works normally, 2-4 craps its pants and on a 1 catches on fire?

 

[Shades of Eternity]

How about a PC named Kaiser Von Loopy who has a Tonk that can wildshape into a fiendish Dire Tiger?

Kwalish's love interest.

 

[aramis erak]

The reason for the word combination is not unlike Gary Gygax's "The Disappearing Dwarf," which could refer to a missing dwarven noble, a missing dwarf star, or a sneaky carnie in a spy game. part of the fun is seeing what genre you decide to use it in.

How do you use this idea, and how do you use it with plucky adventurers?

I instantly get two mental images:

• mothballed armored tracked vehicles with cannons over 7cm
• a field full of water boiler tanks removed from homes.

A little effort,

• Space Above and Beyond, a normal graveyard, but all those inside are the genetically modified humans, nicknames for the subspecies being nipple-necks or tanks
• a large orbital hab canister where humans are composted
• a blown up tank farm, a post major accident at Starbase, Texas or some comparable collection of pressurized storage facilities..

Excepting the water boilers, these are all suitable for PC raids...