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Fantasy¶

High­lander dark crys­tal kind of thing in which pow­er­ful he­roes are cre­at­ed in du­pli­cate one “black” one “white”

Cats as PC­s: saw nov­el in li­brary mag­ic us­ing put­ty cats

rpgtips is­sue #341 idea seed­s: cam­paign de­sign method

Sci-fi¶

Gen­er­a­tion / sleep­er space ship with crew play­ing mmorpg to es­cape in­san­i­ty. They nev­er wake up and are stuck in mmorpg play­ers must fig­ure out and free. mmorpg things like guilds racial home­land­s, safe ar­eas, pvp be­tween two fac­tions ala Norse one. Huge, huge ship play­ers lost on it.

Fol­low on game to mm­ropg in space one. Play­ers man­age to turn off game. Prob­lems de­vel­op and they nev­er get to des­ti­na­tion and thaw from hi­ber­na­tion.

Thou­sands years lat­er a few peo­ple(­play­er­s) thaw. Most oth­ers are dead. On tru­ly gi­gan­tic ship, should be ses­sions be­fore they fig­ure out it is not a ship.

Ev­ery­one has cy­roame­sia and some men­tal dis­ease (man­ic-de­pres­sive, delu­sion­s, cata­ton­ic-­nar­calep­sy, split-per­son­al­i­ty). Stereo­type men­tal ill­ness, not a game on psy­chirtry.

Play­ers are sci-­fi race on prim­i­tive world. Set them­selves up as god­s. “any suf­fi­cient­ly ad­vanced tech == mag­ic”

Metropolis like world, one huge city.

• Zone-1: “un­der­­ground” bit of 2nd gen city, un­de­sir­ables

• Zone-2: old orig­i­­nal city, pow­er sewage

• City: the city prop­er “above ground” al­though all of city is un­der­­ground

Stone age Apocalypse¶

Bio-engi­neered “neu­tron” bac­te­ria sup­pose to de­stroy equip­ment end up eat­ing all re­fined met­al­s.

• chaos

• hu­­man­i­­ty left in­­­to stone age