What's Your Dream Project?
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Chaldfont
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Every time I buy a lottery ticket, I daydream of this. Not so much a campaign or a set of rules, but The Ultimate Place to Game (tm).
I would rent a place with a tiny game store in the front and a HUGE gaming area in the back. I'm talking tables covered in green gambling felt with plenty of space to spread out. Oh, you completely unrolled your giant battlemat? And look, there is still space for you character sheet, can of coke, AND paper plate of pizza.
Did I mention we had a deal with the local pizza place? And coke machines dialed down to $0.25? And a short order cook on hand to make sandwiches?
Murals on the walls painted by the RPG greats. All PCs are drawn by professional artists. Bulletin boards posted with subjects like Best Death, Most Heroic Moment, Highest Number of Kills, and such listing characters of club members.
Each table has a laptop and a giant flat screen monitor. Bring your own CDs for ambient music or just use our database of MP3s.
Need to check some rules or print off a character sheet? Our online presence is just as impressive. Indexed SRD. Character, spell, monster and magic item databases online.
Every year? Big contest to determine whose campaign gets its own animated series.
I would rent a place with a tiny game store in the front and a HUGE gaming area in the back. I'm talking tables covered in green gambling felt with plenty of space to spread out. Oh, you completely unrolled your giant battlemat? And look, there is still space for you character sheet, can of coke, AND paper plate of pizza.
Did I mention we had a deal with the local pizza place? And coke machines dialed down to $0.25? And a short order cook on hand to make sandwiches?
Murals on the walls painted by the RPG greats. All PCs are drawn by professional artists. Bulletin boards posted with subjects like Best Death, Most Heroic Moment, Highest Number of Kills, and such listing characters of club members.
Each table has a laptop and a giant flat screen monitor. Bring your own CDs for ambient music or just use our database of MP3s.
Need to check some rules or print off a character sheet? Our online presence is just as impressive. Indexed SRD. Character, spell, monster and magic item databases online.
Every year? Big contest to determine whose campaign gets its own animated series.
Sir Osis of Liver
Explorer
Ok, well Chaldfont has a rather good idea going there. Of course after reading that i don't know if i can still enjoy the infierior spaces my group games in.
barsoomcore
Unattainable Ideal
That is precisely the reason for our disagreement.rounser said:
Right. Now if we're getting into that sort of thing, well, I want half-a-dozen artists on hand, a full-colour laser printer that handles full-bleed graphics and 11x17 pages, a library and research staff, a composer, remote-control lights, stereo and candles, obviously the smokin' game room, a running tab at my local game store...
And while I'm wishing, I'd sure like a pony.
(Sorry, Calvin reference)
NewLifeForm
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Star Trek and OZ
I can't believe I forgot to list my ultimate dream project, one I'm actually working on right now...
Star Trek D20! - Weee! (Passes out from the excitement. McCoy declares him dead. NewLifeForm gets up and begins to explain how his people can enter a Suspended Animation Death Trance...
)
My dream version would be a single, 400 page hardcover core book similar to the new D20 Traveller. It would cover all eras, but focus many on players playing Starfleet Officers with some supplemental material for rogue types, scientists, etc. Lots of PC races.
I'd also love to pipe in my declaration of "yay!" and "verily!" for the childern's book/classic fairy tale fantasy game. I once ran and really cool and particularly disturbing Land of Oz campaign using a homebrew variant of D&D.
NewLifeForm
Where No One Has Gone Before...
I can't believe I forgot to list my ultimate dream project, one I'm actually working on right now...
Star Trek D20! - Weee! (Passes out from the excitement. McCoy declares him dead. NewLifeForm gets up and begins to explain how his people can enter a Suspended Animation Death Trance...
)My dream version would be a single, 400 page hardcover core book similar to the new D20 Traveller. It would cover all eras, but focus many on players playing Starfleet Officers with some supplemental material for rogue types, scientists, etc. Lots of PC races.
I'd also love to pipe in my declaration of "yay!" and "verily!" for the childern's book/classic fairy tale fantasy game. I once ran and really cool and particularly disturbing Land of Oz campaign using a homebrew variant of D&D.
NewLifeForm
Where No One Has Gone Before...
Jürgen Hubert
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Jürgen Hubert
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rounser said:
Well, if you do need that much time and money, you aren't organizing things right. Or rather, too much.
I find that one or two hours' worth of preparation for each session generally suffice...
Warduke
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Unlimited resources?
First a rather limited idea: Game room v1.0
Ok, table that fits 12 people comfortably, dms end has a mixerboard with stored music and sound effects plus a background switch. The background swith activates screens in the walls and roof which basically ar back projected screens unto which lights in differents color are directed. This makes it possible to simulate a changing environment, such as a forest, a starry sky etcetera, not too obtrusive, and certainly not enough to cause motion sickness in those that easily gets it.
The slightly more outlandish version (which came to me in a dream actually.)
DM sits on a raised podium with an array of buttons and levers on it, this controls the gaming field which is perhaps 10 yards by 20 yards and basically like a holodeck with some machinery. It's played using a mix of live events, live fights, exploration etcetera, but with the usual rules, some dice rolling and so on.
In the dream the opposite side of the playing filed held bleachers for an audience. The entire room was the size of a sitcom/tonight show studio.
Ok, time to go completely overboard:
Terraform the moon, make it one big fantasyworld with some inbuilt safety to prevent deaths. Perhaps a large scale of the theme parks in the movie West World.
And while we're terraforming things, let's do Mars to for a larger playground, perhaps with different continents being different genres.
First a rather limited idea: Game room v1.0
Ok, table that fits 12 people comfortably, dms end has a mixerboard with stored music and sound effects plus a background switch. The background swith activates screens in the walls and roof which basically ar back projected screens unto which lights in differents color are directed. This makes it possible to simulate a changing environment, such as a forest, a starry sky etcetera, not too obtrusive, and certainly not enough to cause motion sickness in those that easily gets it.
The slightly more outlandish version (which came to me in a dream actually.)
DM sits on a raised podium with an array of buttons and levers on it, this controls the gaming field which is perhaps 10 yards by 20 yards and basically like a holodeck with some machinery. It's played using a mix of live events, live fights, exploration etcetera, but with the usual rules, some dice rolling and so on.
In the dream the opposite side of the playing filed held bleachers for an audience. The entire room was the size of a sitcom/tonight show studio.
Ok, time to go completely overboard:
Terraform the moon, make it one big fantasyworld with some inbuilt safety to prevent deaths. Perhaps a large scale of the theme parks in the movie West World.
And while we're terraforming things, let's do Mars to for a larger playground, perhaps with different continents being different genres.
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