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Post by demonnachos on Oct 6, 2015 6:05:56 GMT
So I have Skyrim and loaded it with mods because that is what you do with Skyrim (and have mountains in your way if you are a console scrub, PC MASTER RACE!!!!), and among those mods is a slew of firearms (A mosin, M1 Garand, Kar98K, and an M14 EBR to name a few). It got me thinking of a fun idea for an RPG which a DM better than me could execute well.
You are a band of modern average Joe's, Joette's, and Joe-of-unspecified-gender's who have a pack of modern equipment, ranging from flashlights to firearms, and you get sucked into a vortex that transports you into the world of DnD/Pathfinder/Whatever-System-Is-Used. Your modern tech will be needed to get you by as you have little to no skill in ye olde weapons and survival, but they have limited usage, so on top of trying to survive in a strange and hostile world you have to ration your modern gear. Will you use your limited ammo to survive the early game, or save the very powerful rifle rounds you have been sitting on to take down the big bad way down the line? To learn the ways of the native adventurers and survive as they do will take time you may not have and you can't rely on the sword skills or magic abilities you don't have like they can. No trade skills of much use in ancient times either you can use to make a living, assuming you make it from where ever you arrive to a town or village.
How will you survive, and what do you think would be good rules for the game?
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Post by TempestFennac on Oct 6, 2015 7:39:05 GMT
This could be interesting. Systemwise, the PCs could use d20 Modern (without the expansions which add things like magic) while the rest of the game uses 3.5 D&D being as the systems both use the same basic rules and mechanics. |
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Post by Harkovast on Oct 6, 2015 15:41:56 GMT
I can see two ways to play it.
1- Comedy.
The characters are completely hopeless at survival and totally unable to get things done due to their stupidty.
They might be arrogant about how superior their future technology and knowledge is (like Ash in evil dead) but they are really a bunch of idiots.
Things like boasting that their cell phone is such amazing technology but then realising they cant get a signal.
Or one of them scoffing that the people here believe in magic nad dont know what evolution is...but then someone asks him what evolution is and he ends up going "Erm...well...you know...we come from monkeys...cause Richard Dawkins had finches...look shut up you dumb savages! You just dont know science!"
They bungle through funny situations, insulting nobles, trying to get internet reception, using metaphors about celebrities and things they saw on youtube etc.
It could be light hearted or it could be a black comedy, as it might be fun to watch these modern assholes get brought down a peg by having horrible things happen to them.
Here its more about being funny, setting up situations and mad cap action, rather than book keeping your numbeof remaining bullets etc. Batteries run out when its comedic for them to do so.
2- Horribly serious
A fantasy world is a horrifying place when you think about it.
All the ignorance, disease, no plumbing, no medicine or the medieval world but also horrifying monsters that could come and eat you all at any time, magic that can make people catch fire or explode or who knows what else.
Here you would really want to play up things like where will you get food, how will you stay clean etc.
Things that we normally gloss over in fantasy could be played up to make it difficult.
"You drank the well water? Uh oh, better roll to see what disease you catch!"
A brutal struggle for survival where your few pieces of technology from the modern world are your only advantage.
Here exact numbers of supplies and their condition would be vitally important and if you forget something or mess it up, you are screwed.
Either way could be a lot of fun.
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Post by Canuovea on Oct 6, 2015 19:03:51 GMT
A neat idea for sure, and it could be fun either way.
I might go for the comedy one, to be honest.
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Post by StyxD on Oct 6, 2015 20:25:45 GMT
The idea seems really interesting, but I wonder if the game would really be all that fun to play. I'd need to see it to be sure. How do you play a comedy RPG like that? Also, the more important question is... Demon, did you get the Randy Savage and Singing Bears mods?  |
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Post by Harkovast on Oct 6, 2015 23:28:27 GMT
Well a comedy rpg doesn't have to be 100% comedy, there can be drama and a plot, its just things have more of a jokey tone.
Think about bits in our own RPG where (for example) Gisco and Tinnridi do some funny stage business either arguing, or doing something silly.
It would just be a game that focused more on these areas.
The characters could still have adventures and save the day etc.
Players would deliberately play their characters as kinda dumb, oblivious, or do things to get into scrapes and the GM would allow that to play out in funny ways, rather than just immediately having them all stabbed to death.
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Post by demonnachos on Oct 7, 2015 6:07:10 GMT
I was thinking somewhere in the middle, plenty of humorous situations of the helpless "moderns" trying to adapt while taking survival into account (just not going crazy with it). They'd have to monitor their food and water supplies, but not going much beyond the normal sort of management in that regard.
How do you think their stats would be handled? I think it would be more fun to get players that didn't know the portal thing was coming and maybe have a short session or two in the modern era before whisking them into the past so they don't try and min max to prepare for it.
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Post by TempestFennac on Oct 7, 2015 6:18:03 GMT
That is a good idea. As for how stats work, that would depend on the system and what the DM thinks is appropriate (I tend to like to let PCs have high stats for 3.5 games admittedly).
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Post by Harkovast on Oct 7, 2015 18:04:36 GMT
I'm a bit weird on item/food management.
I just knd of wing it.
People have 'some' money or 'enough' food, or are 'running low' on amo.
I don't like book keeping and if i start demanding the players do it, they will start expecting me to do it and I will mess it up!
Also I want to have them run out of stuff when ever its dramatically appropriate!
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Post by demonnachos on Oct 8, 2015 5:51:28 GMT
Low stats would be much better for this idea, as the idea is to make the players feeble instead of strong adventurers. Perhaps for core stats 3d6 and you get what you get.
The book keeping would have to be part of it, as the challenge is to manage modern supplies. A simple Google Docs spreadsheet would do the trick, just plonk in all the modern gear and when they use up part lower the percentage/total count.
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