[DL] 'Different' campaign ideas?

["Leybourne, Brian" <Brian.Leybourne@airnz.co.nz>]

Hi all. I want to tap into your collective creative juices for a moment, if
I may...

I want to try something different with my current posse, and was thinking of
an 'alternate characters' kind of thing. You know - I'll give them all a new
character each (or let them make some up, but more likely to fit the mold
I'll use pre-gens) totally out of the blue one night, and play something
different, with no explination as to how or why or what has changed. The
idea is to swap back and forth session by session with their main characters
and the new ones, getting faster and faster until the two groups meet in
some fashion (their main characters find their alternate characters all
killed and have to solve the mystery or something like that?)

One Vampire GM did it to great effect in a campaign where we all played weak
Camarila vampires one week, and more powerful Sabbat pack members on the
alternate sessions (in the same city). It all came to a head after a long
time where our Camarila vampires were sent off to warn the Sabbat about some
danger (a 4th gen Bali) but first given a potion to drink to 'protect us'.
We were basically ignored by the Sabbat cardinal and given to his
subordinates to diablorise. Swap to our sabbat characters, who were given
some Camarila upstarts to finish off for him, which we did (our other
characters). Then the potion kicked in, which kept the weaker characters'
souls safe and merged the characters personalities and skills together, so
that we could pick and choose traits and powers etc in the resulting single
character we kept.

Amazing campaign, but I can't do exactly the same thing as it shares
players. However, the above paragraph gives you an idea as to the kind of
thing I may be looking for. What I'm after is some ideas as to a way I can
use the "two characters each who eventually meet or at least interact in a
cool and 'wow our GM is a RPG God' kind of way" concept in a deadlands
setting.

Any ideas?

Brian "Help!" Leybourne.

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Brian Leybourne
NT Systems Administrator
Wang; Air New Zealand
brian.leybourne@airnz.co.nz
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