Your Ideal RPG Series or Campaign (ttrpg.network)

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Saw a discussion on reddit today and thought it might be interesting. Name the system, media influences, and basic plot ideas. Mine is: Over The Edge, Film Noir: Four friends in 1935 are involved in a plane crash in the desert and end up in Al Amarja. Stuck without papers or passports, the group is forced to take piece work from the criminal element to survive. A cross between The Maltese Falcon, Naked Lunch, The Lost Weekend, and Sullivan's Travels.

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[-] BalderSion@real.lemmy.fan 1 points 10 hours ago

For me this changes all the time as I invest in developing something, and inevitably something catches my attention. I'm pretty invested in the Open D6 system, so I'm always riffing on this system.

Lately I've been penciling out a game where a party is rewarded with the Charter to the king's casino. I started with the idea of inverting Ocean's 11, since every party ever wants to rob a casino as soon as they learn there is a casino. So, the idea is the party has control of a casino and now they have to deal with organized crime, card counters and sharps, rivals, labor disputes, royal demands, and the occasional party that thinks they've got a surefire plan for an epic heist.

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