RE: [DL] Campaign Idea -- Suggestions?

["Jeffery Yates" <jyates@qlinktech.com>]

The only thing I have the brain-power to add right now is this:  if your
town becomes a population center of any size, then in the Last War it would
be a target of a city-bustin' bomb.  Havin' the city be nothing but rubble
makes option #1 less likely, but option #2 gets interesting.  Say that the
descendants of one or more of the town founders still have residence in the
city up until the Last War.  They got lucky and were out of town when the
bombs fell and destroyed everything the family had built.  The descendants
go back to the Weird West to try to keep the town from growing to
"target-size".  I think this would be kinda interesting to flesh out.

Option #1 might still work too, if the descendants pull the PCs to the
future to help rebuild a new town, just outside the zone of destruction that
was the city.  The appeal of this one depends on your game group -- it is
kinda close to just redo-ing the first part of your campaign all over again
(lets settle a new town!)  But with the HOE elements mixed in it might make
your group quite happy.

Jeff Y.
Marshal for the Dynamite Gang

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> Behalf Of Eric Franklin
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 3:28 PM
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> Subject: [DL] Campaign Idea -- Suggestions?
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> Once they've got the town established, I want to either
> 1)  Yank the PC's into the HOE future of the town -- by this time, it'll
> probably be an industrial nightmare -- because some of the HOE Locals need
> their help (because of some prophecy or oracle or something about
> "They must
> Finish What They Began" or some nonsense like that)
> or
> 2)  Throw some HOE characters back in time to try to "help" so
> that the town
> "turns out better than it did last time" [Whether they're actually helping
> or trying to manipulate the future so that their faction gets a
> bigger slice
> of the pie is up in the air at this point]
>
> Additionally, I'd like to have some Ghost Rock found nearby -- well in the
> future of the Weird West, so that the PC's won't find it (It'll
> probably be
> found in the 1920's or so ... ), but enough so that by the Wasted
> West Era,
> it'll be a "Boom Town" of sorts.
>
> Does anyone out there have any suggestions for either the Weird West _or_
> the Wasted West portion of this Campaign?
>
> Eric