What's your dream campaign?

[grodog]

1. You have all the time in the world to prep
2. You have 4-6 players who will happily play whatever system and campaign you want
3. It's going to be a weekly game

What do you run?

I have several campaigns I’d love to run, including:

1. CoC: Masks of Nyarlathotep, One Night, Cthulhu by Gaslight classic Sherlock Holmes (a la Gaiman's "A Study in Emerald"); Pagan's End Times, Walkers in the Wastes
2. gates-driven AD&D campaign starting out at fresh at low level (1st-3rd-ish), where gates are sufficiently common that they drive the entire campaign: economy, weather, culture, travel, etc. (think The Primal Order meets Stargate meets World of Tiers meets Moorcock's multiverse meets Greyhawk)
3. AD&D "Treasure of the Dragon Queen"; I'll have to recreate it first, of course: http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/gh ... queen.html
4. AD&D Greyhawk drowic adaptation of MERP 1e Courts of Ardor campaign (could be played as an evil campaign by drowic PCs or traditional good-ish PCs; could merge with previous gates-driven entry)
5. Amber-style Crown War campaign in the Dune universe using Fading Suns rules (I don't remember liking the Last Unicorn rules the last time I read them)
6. Ars Magica/Mage dual-timelines linked campaign that draws on the transition/fall of Mythic Europe into the World of Darkness both of which are underpinned by Kult and perhaps HPL/CoC
7. Eclipse Phase campaign crossed over with Pagan's End Times and/or Blue Planet and/or Aliens and/or Bladerunner, with some James H. Schmitz and Aliette de Bodard thrown for good measure
8. Greyhawk Black Ice Age campaign
9. Greyhawk Maure Castle/underdark campaign using my alt-drow, Kingdom/Empire of the Ghouls (crossing into HPL here, perhaps into Dreamlands)
10. Greyhawk desert campaign leveraging the Sea of Dust, X4/X5, UK6, "Ruins of Andril", I9, perhaps C2 or CB2 too (perhaps combined with above Maure campaign...)
11. Greyhawk city-based thieves campaign (could be combined with Thieves World and the desert one above, potentially)
12. AD&D Abyssal campaign (PCs are a new generation of demons, vying for power amidst the chaos; could combine with gates or drowic ones above); I've slowly been the framework for an AD&D game where the PCs run demons and explore the mythic geography of the multiverse
13. AD&D or ASSH Lankhmar campaign: breathing life into Leiber's classic city!
14. Greyhawk arcane age using ArM rules: http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php ... pic&t=9777

My current campaign, if the players continue along the paths they’re choosing now, stands a good chance of bringing together 2, 4, and 11, and perhaps 9 and 14 too, maybe.

Allan.

[Ancalagon]

Scenario:

1. You have all the time in the world to prep
2. You have 4-6 players who will happily play whatever system and campaign you want
3. It's going to be a weekly game

What do you run?

GURPS, which is why (1) is important. I had an idea that I started working on a while back (years and years now) that would have involved a 2000s alternate timeline where the USSR didn't collapse (though would have changed). Let tech advance a bit so some elements of High and maybe even Ultra Tech would be available, but very unreliable (you've got a laser gun, sure, but roll 3d6 and on a bad roll, it might explode in your hand). Core focus for the PCs would be espionage/special ops missions leading to various revelations about what's happening behind the (Iron) curtain and choices the players would have to make.

Emphasis mine.
I'd be down for some GURPS goodness!

[Ancalagon]

1. You have all the time in the world to prep
2. You have 4-6 players who will happily play whatever system and campaign you want
3. It's going to be a weekly game

What do you run?

I have several campaigns I’d love to run, including:

1. CoC: Masks of Nyarlathotep, One Night, Cthulhu by Gaslight classic Sherlock Holmes (a la Gaiman's "A Study in Emerald"); Pagan's End Times, Walkers in the Wastes
2. gates-driven AD&D campaign starting out at fresh at low level (1st-3rd-ish), where gates are sufficiently common that they drive the entire campaign: economy, weather, culture, travel, etc. (think The Primal Order meets Stargate meets World of Tiers meets Moorcock's multiverse meets Greyhawk)
3. AD&D "Treasure of the Dragon Queen"; I'll have to recreate it first, of course: http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/gh ... queen.html
4. AD&D Greyhawk drowic adaptation of MERP 1e Courts of Ardor campaign (could be played as an evil campaign by drowic PCs or traditional good-ish PCs; could merge with previous gates-driven entry)
5. Amber-style Crown War campaign in the Dune universe using Fading Suns rules (I don't remember liking the Last Unicorn rules the last time I read them)
6. Ars Magica/Mage dual-timelines linked campaign that draws on the transition/fall of Mythic Europe into the World of Darkness both of which are underpinned by Kult and perhaps HPL/CoC
7. Eclipse Phase campaign crossed over with Pagan's End Times and/or Blue Planet and/or Aliens and/or Bladerunner, with some James H. Schmitz and Aliette de Bodard thrown for good measure
8. Greyhawk Black Ice Age campaign
9. Greyhawk Maure Castle/underdark campaign using my alt-drow, Kingdom/Empire of the Ghouls (crossing into HPL here, perhaps into Dreamlands)
10. Greyhawk desert campaign leveraging the Sea of Dust, X4/X5, UK6, "Ruins of Andril", I9, perhaps C2 or CB2 too (perhaps combined with above Maure campaign...)
11. Greyhawk city-based thieves campaign (could be combined with Thieves World and the desert one above, potentially)
12. AD&D Abyssal campaign (PCs are a new generation of demons, vying for power amidst the chaos; could combine with gates or drowic ones above); I've slowly been the framework for an AD&D game where the PCs run demons and explore the mythic geography of the multiverse
13. AD&D or ASSH Lankhmar campaign: breathing life into Leiber's classic city!
14. Greyhawk arcane age using ArM rules: http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php ... pic&t=9777

My current campaign, if the players continue along the paths they’re choosing now, stands a good chance of bringing together 2, 4, and 11, and perhaps 9 and 14 too, maybe.

Allan.

Lots of interesting ideas there! Numbers 6, 8, and 11 really caught my eye...

[grodog]

I have several campaigns I’d love to run, including:
8. Greyhawk Black Ice Age campaign

Lots of interesting ideas there! Numbers 6, 8, and 11 really caught my eye...

Anna and talked about this cartographically a bit a few years ago:

The core of the idea was that:

Ever since Dragon #68, I've wanted to run a Black Ice Age in Greyhawk---your map is definitely spurring some more thoughts along those lines, Anna!

Have you considered building a map where the extent of the Land of Black Ice is much greater? (And, for that matter, how do we know what its true extent is in general?). That's what I've imagined as the focus for the above black ice campaign---a glacial invasion of the southern lands, so to speak!

Other links exploring this idea (generally rather than LOBI-specific):

- https://www.annabmeyer.com/cold-oerth/
- https://www.annabmeyer.com/2021/08/31/o ... old-oerth/

I pinged Anna about the original link’s status.

Allan.

[grodog]

I pinged Anna about the original link’s status.

She said they’re all now at https://www.annabmeyer.com/oerth-test/

Allan.