Re: [DL] 'Different' campaign ideas? (spoilers for FF8... Kind of)

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Man, have you ever played Final Fantasy 8 for the play station?  The over all
story of it has exactly what you are looking for... I would tell you more, but I
don't want to ruin the game for you.  If I were you and serious about this RPG
God idea of yours I would take a week off of work, and play through FF8... Trust
me.

Dirk "FF Fanatic" R.

"Leybourne, Brian" wrote:

> 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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