I ran a Call of Cthulhu campaign set during the battle of Hue in Vietnam. It had a high body count (more from the NVA than from some monsters the guys found while patrolling the city). I put a fair amount of work into this and the players were involved in several incidents that actually happened (along with a few more pertinent to the cthulhu stuff).

Another favorite was a Rifts campaign I ran a long time ago. The guys were your normal mix of glitter boy, juicer, crazy, SAMAS pilot, and Scholar. They had a number of run-ins with the Coalition States. This all happened back when the latest new book was Atlantis. We all had a blast.

Quote from: Zak S;6194251. A lot of the Escapist's money came from Greece--you know what happened to Greece, right?

2. The Escapist cut all tabletop RPG stuff (including J Mal's column) first because it makes less money than videogame stuff

3. The older shows with established audiences over there were videogame shows and the advertisers (where the money came from) sell videogames. And our show, which was relatively new, didn't. So even though ours had a wider crossover appeal, the Escapist was basically set up to sell and make shows about videogames and didn't have a lotta juice for other stuff set up at the time.

4. Our show was the most expensive show--most of their shows are  people where that's all they do--they're up-and-coming animators or whatever. To let our games be filmed, we basically need The Escapist to pay us what we'd be getting during a normal work day. So we cost 2-3 times what they did.

5. There's only one TRPG company that had the kinda money that could afford to advertise on the Escapist. And that company was selling a product we were not playing and we weren't gonna change games.

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(That said, a handful of companies have been asking lately about starting it up again with a bigger budget, so....mayyyyybe)

They give you any info on your hits compared to other content?

Quote from: CRKrueger;619554They give you any info on your hits compared to other content?

Zero Punctuation was basically half the traffic (millions) and this one other video game show was behind that (a million), then there was a whole pack of other shows regularly getting high 6 figures including us.

oddly, my first campaign (adnd) was a real success, which was quite a feat given two of the players (one a rules-lawyering, min-maxing, spotlight-hogging, asshole and the other who existed only to push him over the edge of sanity). short synopsis: the dirty dozen meets wilderlands.

campaign started out with the various pcs being scooped up in legal dragnets for their (player-defined) crimes and then having their deaths staged very publicly, afterward being resurrected in secret to serve as part of an elite task force who answered directly to the invincible overlord (yes, that overlord).

the campaign was mostly episodic, though an underlying plot was introduced at a later date, drawing largely on the mayfair city state products. fun was had by all. well, most of the time, anyhow.

for years, i tried again and again to recapture this first campaign, but could never make it work. i think i might give it one more go - this time with vornheim and ruins of the undercity.