Whip out your thinkin' caps.... Need ideas! FUN!

[mirivor]

Alrighty, as a little speedbump to my too-serious campaign, I have decided to have my party teleported or otherwise cajoled into a modern day city. The twist... there will be a gen-con type going on. I would like to hear some of your most interesting ideas or encounters to have occur. I would like non-combative, role-playing humorous type encounters that keep the players on their toes. A little bar fight resulting in a night in jail is OK, but no lethal shootouts with local law enforcement. Things such as seeing their first automobile, entering the Gunzn'ammo shop for a little, and other encounters that will really test my players' abilities to think in character. Note that all XP will come from that... virtually no other source available. So, imagine yourself as a fantasy-world human placed in a 20th century city. What would be the scariest, creepiest, funniest, or down-right wierdest things that you can imagine coming in contact with?

Should be fun... Teehee!

 

[caudor]

Sounds like fun. I imagine they will eventually get hungry, but McDonalds probably will not accept gold pieces. Even a water fountain would be alien to them, so they may end up camped at somebody's swimming pool or a public restroom.

A magic missle on someone's dog won't go over well...ton's of ways to get thrown in jail.

 

[blargney the second]

1) Reporters. Paparazzi if you're feeling cruel.
2) Music. Try something even your players would be freaked out by. (Play a CD!)
3) A real fight between Godzilla and King Kong. Who wouldn't want to see that?

-blarg

 

[Arrgh! Mark!]

Put them strait away in a larp in a True Dungeon situation. They'll fit right in until the blood hits the walls. (Man, that costume rocks! Is that real harness!?)

Fun!

 

[RichCsigs]

I was thinking just the opposite. Have Con-goers tell them they'll never win the costume contest because their costumes aren't all that authentic.

 

[Steverooo]

Describe things in terms the PCs would be familiar with, even when describing things that the players would automatically recognize. The clothing is strange, women wearing odd shoes with stilts on the rearward parts (high heels), lamp posts apparently lit with Continual Flame, but it's white, not green... As they stare about, they begin to notice a few armored warriors, in chain shirts, going into a large building down the block (Gen-Conners, in costume). As they draw closer, they notice the first non-humans that they've yet see, in this place; an oddly-uniformed and armored elf and the tallest dwarf you've ever seen, with head-trauma, going into the same place. The dwarf says something in an unrecognizable tongue, and the elf laughs (two more Gen-Conners, dressed as a Vulcan & Klingon, the latter speaking Klingonese).

Inside, be sure to have them encounter English, waiting in line, "an odd form of open-faced pie, apparently made of meat and vegetables" (pizza), "an odd, brown, fizzling, sweet-smelling liquid, which stings your nose as you sniff it, and feels caustic as you try a taste" (soda pop), and be sure to have someone turn out the lights, at some point!

For more fun, the Vulcan/Klingon could have "an odd wand on his belt, shaped rather like a hand-crossbow, without the bow, which apparently fires light!" (a phaser replica). Describe the costume show, etc. That should be fun. There's always a "Red Sonja" sort, in "the skimpiest armor you've ever seen"!

 

[RajAhten]

Er.. well i know you said non dangerous but having the new modern world start having a dawn of the dead type thing happening that would give them a good time, having to stop hoards of zombies and if they get bitten well they are screwed. (head for the mall)

 

[Zander]

Check out the French comedy Les Visiteurs in which a medieval knight and his servant find themselves in modern day France.

It's chocked full of good ideas.

I'm pretty sure the movie is available with English subtitles in the US and Canada (just in case your French isn't too hot).

 

[Hand of Evil]

Well, the picking up booth babes could be an interesting non-combat event.

Look ma, Orcs, they call them Klingons here...

 

[Dougal DeKree]

Let them stumble into a running Vampire the Masquerade LARP game!
Have them meet Blackleaf...
Make them see the D&D movie