Quote from: PseudoephedrineJustice, science and art - these you alone possess amongst the barbarous races. You must civilise them and gain their help in your quest to find God.

Is the setting for this game somewhat Greek? Would the characters be politically powerful? Have you ever looked at Agon?

WFRP: AN ILL WIND

Reflections

Water dripped incessantly from the ceiling of the cramped little cell; a barrage of gunshots ringing when they fell onto the loose flagstones placed haphazardly onto the bare earth.  Air heavy with the smell of growing things, things that only grew in the dark, was the only clue that the room nestled far beneath the earth.

If you were to pace out the confines of the small space, two paces would suffice in each direction, just enough space for the cell's occupant to lay down full length.

That occupant squatted on the filthy straw in the centre of the room, his head arched back to look at the ceiling. Intense eyes scrutinised the fungus-strewn nooks and crannies there, apparently searching.  

Despite his weeks of incarceration, Anders still retained a powerful form that had yet to lose enough weight to put his ribs into stark relief, evidence of a life of plenty in the world outside his little hole.

Ah, the real world...the one where he had been someone of importance. There had been a day not too long ago when if he had said "jump", then fifty men would have asked "how high?"

That had ended once he had taken pity on the bedraggled man who had wandered into his Guild house three weeks ago. Clutching a leather tube in one grimy hand and bearing nothing more than the patched and ragged clothes he wore, the man had shown Anders a map that he insisted showed the location of a sizable amount of gold. Anders' greed had inevitably gotten the better of him and he had said, "jump," to his followers. If he had known that it had been an elaborate set-up to capture him, he would have slain the man on the spot. But thinking with his money-pouch had spelled his doom.

So now, here he rotted, with only the fungus and the rats for company. Ah yes, the rats. They came out at night to snuffle and nudge at him whilst he tried to sleep (or at least he presumed that it was at night), nibbling at any scraps of food that Anders had left.

To begin with, Anders had been horrified when the grey things had emerged from the gloom, but after a few weeks, he began to look forward to their coming. With no human contact to look forward to, he made do with the rats. He even gave them names...then he started talking to them. It was surprising how intelligent they were. They knew things that he would never have guessed at, the existence of the catacombs below his cell, for one. The rats had discovered them some time ago. They told him that you could reach them through the walls, but try as he might, Anders could not join his little friends in the walls.

Yes, he knew that there were rats in the walls. He could hear them late at night, big rats, scratching and chattering behind the big blocks of stone. Escape, they whispered, help, they promised, revenge, they gurgled.

So Anders planned and plotted, his eyes taking on a feral cast that glinted green in the darkness of his cell, eyes that hinted at a terrible beast awakening; a beast that would consume those responsible for his incarceration. To enact his revenge, he needed to get word to his remaining friends on the outside.

We will take this word, the rats in the walls promised.

Anders laughed.  

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The PCs can be Anders' friends, the people who set him up, or the Skaven helping him to escape. These three factions will be having a merry dance through the campaign. All based on the madman in the cell. What does he know that has caused his incarceration? Is this what interests the Skaven or do they see his old influence as a way to get a foothold in the city above? Why was he betrayed? What will his revenge be? How are the authorities involved and why haven't they got rid of him? More importantly, who ate all the pies?

A campaign that suites low-lives, thieves, rogues, whores, spies and assassins.

There's mud, there's shit and then there's an ill wind.

GRIM,

Have you seen Death of a President?  It is a really clever docu-drama about the assassination of Bush II and the aftermath...

Quote from: keith senkowski.  I love the idea so much I am writing a campaign book for it with a simple mechanic for the GM to gauge the tensions of the country.  As the characters do shit, the tension scale moves triggering different events and opening new adventure/episodes up to them.

This sounds really cool! I just picked up Conspiracy of Shadows by pdf a couple of weeks ago, but haven't had a chance to read it, yet.

alternate Redemption takes:
Take 1, Take 2, Take 3
alternate FLOGS takes:
Take 1, Take 2, Take 3

Quote from: TimThis sounds really cool! I just picked up Conspiracy of Shadows by pdf a couple of weeks ago, but haven't had a chance to read it, yet.

Awesome.  I hope you dig it.  Feel free to hit me with any questions or comments about it.

Quote from: keith senkowskiGRIM,

Have you seen Death of a President?  It is a really clever docu-drama about the assassination of Bush II and the aftermath...

Yeah, I'd been working on a one-off @ctiv8 adventure publication on these lines when I saw that and had to toss it because there were too many similarities. *sigh* that happens to me far too often.

Quote from: TimIs the setting for this game somewhat Greek? Would the characters be politically powerful? Have you ever looked at Agon?

The setting would be a homebrew world as it currently stands, filled with goblins, elves, dwarves and other humanoids somewhere between the neolithic era and bronze age. And the PCs would start off newly created on a mountaintop and hopefully rise to become kings of the earth.

For the record, I pitched this to my players and they turned it down in favour of a game where they play pirates and bandits attempting to conquer a fantasy version of a Mesoamerican empire.

Agon looks cool though.

@Casey777

Those are really great!  Quite evocative -- picture's worth a thousand words and all that.


My own pitch for an ideal D&D game is more pedestrian:

"Is Killfuck Soulshitter your ideal name for a Dungeons & Dragons character?  Is Order of the Stick your ideal adventuring party?  Sign below and we'll kill shit 'n take stuff..."

Quote from: PseudoephedrineFor the record, I pitched this to my players and they turned it down in favour of a game where they play pirates and bandits attempting to conquer a fantasy version of a Mesoamerican empire.

Hah! I might have, too.

QuoteAgon looks cool though.

It IS cool, and cheap, too! I haven't done anything long-term with it yet, but the couple of demos I've done of the game have been really popular at ye olde gaming club.

Tim

I wouldn't laugh about that...

Especially since Tim is a "known" person - in the sense that people know who he really is (at least that's the sense I've got).  He just proposed a game in which people plan to assasinate the President.  If I were a mod, I'd be a bit concerned...

IMHO...

Quote from: MoriartyThose are really great!  Quite evocative -- picture's worth a thousand words and all that.

My own pitch for an ideal D&D game is more pedestrian:

Find a good image to go along with that and you're set!

Thanks, the limitations of the Motivator & Movie Poster generator help focus the pitch to potential players. Kudos to Eldritch Dark and Night Land for inspiration.

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