RE: [WW] How will a game progress?

["Mario Lee Bansen III" <LeeBansen@deadlands.com>]

Sir I think that all your ideas sound wonderful! The thing that makes
something Horror doesn't need to be overt. I think you can also get tons of
really cool ideas from that show, 'The Outer Limits'.

Lee

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-weirdwars@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-weirdwars@gamerz.net]On
> Behalf Of Arne Reuter
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:30 AM
> To: weirdwars@gamerz.net
> Subject: [WW] How will a game progress?
>
>
> Hail!
>
> Considering the information so far, i was wondering (from the GM's
> perspective) how a campaign would progress, especially the presumed
> high bodycount.
>
> 1. Players start out as green troops, with lots of other green troops
> (npcs - that gives immediate new characters, once a PC buys the farm).
>
> 2. Eventually the fog of war takes over, units get smashed, remnants
> find themselves behind lines, in bad weather, cut of from their
> command structure
>
> 3. As an option to stress the Weird part have them encounter
> extradimensional portals that just twist time and reality (lots of bad
> movies on those, with one good one: the Philadelphia Experiment (i
> believe it was called))
>
> 4. Experienced troops will be set into hotspots (for "wargame"-type
> play, imagine have your group in a grinder like the normandy-landing)
> or be drawn into commando operations (recover ancient artifacts,
> egypt, greece, palestine, south america)?
>
> 5. As an off there always is the home front. Will these "heroes" be
> capable of having a conversation with a girl, or will they just beat
> up anybody who crosses their way? It'd be interesting to have them
> face normal opponents (criminals) and have to cut down on their own
> powers (you don't wield a bazooka, going to a party).
>
> Any other (general) ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Arne Reuter
>
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