Re:[DL] Lone Stars/The Agency campaign

[David R Goecke <mightygecko@juno.com>]

I've thought about this ubt in a lsightyl different way. I came across
Lone Stars, the Agency: MiBD, and the Kunckle Duster Cowtown Creator
around the same time, so all of those wonderful ideas flooded my brain at
once with wonderful western goodness. I haven't figured out how to run it
yet, but I'v thought about developing a good sized town in California as
per knuckle duster suggestions. I'd devide my posse into 2 parts, Agents
and  Rangers. the rangers would get a third of the buildings to set up
secret bases, labs, communications centers, spies, informants, etc. and
the Agents would get another third to do the same. the other third is
just neutral. Some of the buildinds may have double agents, people that
dangerously work for both sides, and buildings where two different
occupants work for opposite sides (ex. in the Smoking Dragon  in China
Town, one of the "Daughters of Joy" is an Agent Informant while the Opium
Dealer is a Ranger informant, neither know of the other's secret work).
i'd give each group a large buget to set themselves up with, and rules
for making their informants and spies, how many big shots can be
stationed here, how likely they are to get outside help, etc.

But once it's all set up, how do I play it without one side automatically
knowing where the others contacts and hide outs are.

Ranger: I go to the Smoking Dragon, go into the back room, pull on the
Budha statues hand, and go through the secret door.
Marshal: Agent, what do you want to do now.
Agent: I'm going to go to the smoking Dragon, go into the back room and
search the Budha statue.

lots of note passing I guess. Maybe two Marshals working in tandum.

Dave

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:20:07 -0400 Brett Dixon <balance@tubas.net>
writes:
> 
> On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 06:18  PM, Mr. Christopher McGlothlin, 
> 
> M.Ed. wrote:
> 
> > At 06:07 PM 4/8/2003, Mr. Joey Fanning wrote:
> >> My household's got 2 copies....
> >         Some of you, I doubly love.
> >         :-):-):-):-)
> 
> I'm sorry to interrupt this love-fest, (Hey, I own a copy, and have 
> 
> been thinking about 'rescuing' some other McGlothlin tomes from my 
> local B&N... Some old West End DCU books with his name on them I 
> think) 
> but has anyone ever considered a campaign centered around both the 
> Rangers and the Agency?
> 
> The biggest problem would, I think,  be finding a reason to make 
> them 
> work together. I just had the idea of having them 'team up' to work 
> 
> together in the hellhole they call Lost Angels, with the big villian 
> of 
> he campaign as Grimme himself.
> 
> Any thoughts? I unfortunately doubt I'll get a chance to run this, 
> but 
> the very different styles of these groups could be interesting 
> together. Rangers cover the epic, charge in first, then ask 
> questions 
> when they are all too busy bleeding or sleeping to resist. Agents 
> cover 
> the wraithlike hide-in-the-shadows detective side, and have the 
> gadgets 
> to fight the.
> 
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