Here is the idea with this thread.  We all have those adventure or scenario ideas we never got the chance to run or use. OR scenarios that we'd like to play in - but never found a GM to run it.

 After we post our "yet-to-be-Used" idea, I don't want to argue about them...but instead we maybe help out others to flesh out what they posted and offer additional bits of business that might get these ideas into playable shape.

To start it off here is one of mine:

1) On page 11 of the SJ Games book ALTERNATE EARTHS there is a timeline called "DIXIE" where the American Civil War never quite ended . It stopped as kind of a "stalemate".
 On the map in the book the dividing line between the Confederate States of America and the United States of America is the Ohio River.  The same river thast Cincinnati sits on the northern side of .

 What I wanted to do was run a one-off or mini-campaign where the players are helping with the underground railroad and smnuggling slaves to freedom. I was thbinking of setting this in that tineline's version of the mid 1970s.
In REAL history, our history Cincinnati was one of the major resting points and transfer spots of the Underground Railroad to freedom for slaves.

- Ed C.

2) Run a game focusing on super powered characters where their homebase is either Chicago or Cincinnati...and there is at least one major fight scene that takes place at the Fermi Laboratory National Accelerator building in the Illinois countryside.

 If you have ever been to that building - it just screams "MUST be used in a SciFi or Superhero setting!".

- Ed C.

I've been working on a setting (true20) for the last couple of years in a fantasy world just 700 years out of an iceage. It combines elements of fantasy, sf and the ages of reason/exploration and steam. When I'm done it will be like a seventeenth century gamma world with magic wielding vikings, neanderthals, nazis, lizardmen and stuff.

I always wanted to do a big fight scene between unarmed protagonists, in a hardware shop. Where they have to grab anything at hand, and must completely dismember their opponents, Highlander-style. Bystanders are fair game, because the fate of the universe is at stake.

Never ran the right sort of campaign to work that kind of thing in, though.

TheShadow

A post-apocalyptic campaign in the vein of Romero's ...of the Dead series, King's The Stand, 28 Weeks Later and Wyndham's Day of the Triffids.

The "monsters" that preciptated the catastrophe are largely environmental hazards, with the real focus being on the barabarism and nobility humanity itself is capable of. Gradually I'd introduce the notion of a sinister organisation that may or may not have been instrumental in societal collapse. Ideally I'd like it to span several decades, with each adventure taking place during some critical juncture of future history.

The PCs are the first generation to be born after the cataclysm that destroyed their parents' homeland, but for whatever reason their parents simply cannot say more than vague and broad things about their past and their history as a people.  The wizard rules a a tyrant (in the old Greek sense, mostly), and their society is quite functional- thriving even.  However, there is an unease underneath it all and... (spoiler protection; this is what I'm actually working on for a D&D game)

Spoiler

...it's because the wizard-tyant is the one responsible for destroying the old world, a deed he did with divine sanction, and he's trying to avoiding undoing his work by making a clean break with the past- allowing only the best of the old world to pass on to the new generation, guided by him.

I've always wanted to run a session of Paranoi where the PCs finish the adventure by exiting a portal in the ceiling to find that Alpha-Complex is actually a level of the Starship Warden (from Metamorphosis Alpha).

Another goofy adventure I've always wanted to run, but never have is a "Gamma World" adventure where the PCs stumble upon the Wonka Chocolate Factory.

There is probably a good reason why I haven't run the second.

Quote from: grubmanThere is probably a good reason why I haven't run the second.

not enough stoner players?

Quote from: Koltar2) Run a game focusing on super powered characters where their homebase is either Chicago or Cincinnati...and there is at least one major fight scene that takes place at the Fermi Laboratory National Accelerator building in the Illinois countryside.

 If you have ever been to that building - it just screams "MUST be used in a SciFi or Superhero setting!".

- Ed C.

Uhhh...accept...it's not in the countryside anymore.  It's in the middle of suburban sprawl.  "Hey mom - Johhny went over by the accelorator again!"

Seriously, I drive right by it on the way to my sisters about once a month. It's a big facility and surrounded by a lot of land itself. But that's all boxed in on every side by...you guessed it...houses and strip malls.

At one point I wanted to run an OVA game whose premise was basically a cross between the anime series X and Unknown Armies. Basically, the premise was that (unbeknownst to the population at large) the world was about to end, and that the new world would be formed according to the wishes of those who performed the Rites of the Apocalypse. So there are the forces of Heaven, forces of Hell, witches, animal avatars, cultists of forgotten faiths, all fighting over the knowledge and tools needed to perform these rites (conveniently scattered over every corner of the earth and long-fogotten) in order to get in on the action of the next world.

Trite maybe, but it seemed like a fun idea.

I have always wanted to run a whimsical one-shot in which the PCs were a band of world-famous, world-saving adventurers whose fellowship was in danger of breaking up. The game would focus on their group-therapy session meant to reconcile their differences.

Generally, the players would tell stories about their past exploits (some of which would be gamed in flashback) and then... then...

...well now you can see WHY I've never run this thing

Haunted house (and adjacent terrain) crawling in the stylings of Maniac Mansion, Betrayal at the House on the Hill, The Uninvited, House of Hell, Elvira I & II, Arkham Horror, Sweet Home, Demon of Laplace, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Parasite Eve, etc. I would do it with d20 modern and have hunch points replace action points.