Campaign bucket list

[herculesftw]

List campaigns you always wanted to play but never got to.

I always wanted to play in a campaign where somehow me and my friends get transported to the DnD realm

[ArcturusV]

PD20 campaign based off the General or Andromedan wars. Never had a shot. Just BARELY getting a PD20 game going after about 7 years of trying. And I have to DM it.

Low Level World Conquerer game. I've wanted a campaign where as a player, I go and take over the world, or massively shape it to my will. Without it being a game where we're ultra high level (At which point it seems usually trivial or impossible to do, based on skill sets). Having some level 5 guy who takes on the world and wins? Sounds really fun to me.

[Gwazi Magnum]

Zombie Survival Campaign
Medieval Campaign - No Magic, period, on either side
Futuristic/Sci-fi Campaign
Stealth/Subterfuge oriented campaign.
-Like medieval fantasy times like most d&d but everyone's like secret agents doing agent like missions instead of raiding dungeons for gold

[herculesftw]

Zombie Survival Campaign
Medieval Campaign - No Magic, period, on either side
Futuristic/Sci-fi Campaign
Stealth/Subterfuge oriented campaign.
-Like medieval fantasy times like most d&d but everyone's like secret agents doing agent like missions instead of raiding dungeons for gold


Yeah that last one, I've always wanted to be a spymaster with leadership, for more spymasters!

[Fyermind]

I'd love to play a game set in a ghoul-pocalypse. It'd be VoP e6 probably. It's be a dangerous survival game trying to get as many kills in before we have to retreat where every attack that lands could be an insta-kill.

[White_Drake]

Survival Game (Ice age)
Survival Game (apocalyptic)
Survival Game (post-apocalyptic)
Sandbox
Court Intrigue
And finally, I think it would be really cool to play an all-thief game, where you're trying to survive in a giant metropolis.

[Keneth]

Call of Cthulhu. The one where everyone invariably sucks (or becomes irreparably insane) and you'd better run like hell if you thought there was a shadow in the corner of your eye. Brutal survival horror campaigns are hard to come by, everyone always wants to play superheroes.

I've pretty much done everything else.

[ArcturusV]

Heh. My experience with CoC was that everyone tries to "Win" it and kill some elder tentacle god, and still are superheroes with Bazookas, dynamite, insane Rube Goldberg level Deathtrap plans, etc.

There's just no way around it. I've even done Horror games, and I kid you not, told players "... don't go off alone. You will die, pretty much guaranteed if you run off alone after some cry for help, scream, etc."

... 20 minutes later, first scene of the game. Someone does exactly that and I just tell him to hand over his sheet as his level 1 fighter charged after a Ghost. :smallsigh:

[Keneth]

Depends on the maturity level of the group and the system, I guess. I wouldn't actually want to play a CoC or d20 CoC game, to be honest. While I enjoy the complexity of both systems, they also support powergaming way too much. I just like the setting and the sanity mechanic.

[tiercel]

I agree with those who have listed an intrigue campaign -- the problem with fast-talking/smooth-talking characters is that they don't often get a chance to shine as such when grouped up with full casters and/or optimized beatsticks (or if one does, it's because you have RL high Charisma as the players' leader and/or DM collusion making you the Main Character driving plot, which is usually less than desirable for other players unless they are all on board with this sort of thing).

Imagine a campaign more suited to the likes of Miles Vorkosigan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Vorkosigan), Locke Lamora (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locke_Lamora), Eli Monpress (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11754293-the-legend-of-eli-monpress), and/or Moist von Lipwig (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moist_von_Lipwig) (attempting to include all four characters or four such characters would probably cause a campaign world to implode under the sheer weight of plot twistiness and "does he know that I know that he knows that I know that he knows that I know that....")

Also? (And possibly related...) On my bucket list is playing a campaign where my fellow PCs and I actually take over the world. (In particular, doing so without a full-fledged apocalypse that would make it an empty and Pyrrhic victory.)

[Amphetryon]

A Midkemia D&D campaign.

An all-gish D&D campaign.

A "Mundanes must stop Evil McWizardington" D&D campaign.

+1 on the Ice Age survival campaign.

[Cikomyr]

Star Wars : The Masquerade

A bunch of Jedi Apprentice/Jedi Order hires narrowly escape Order 66 and are now one the run from the Great Jedi Purge. The force-sensitive players may use Force power if they want to, but they'll have bounty hunter, Stormtroopers and eventually Darth Vader on their asses

[thethird]

Sandbox
Court Intrigue
And finally, I think it would be really cool to play an all-thief game, where you're trying to survive in a giant metropolis.



Imagine a campaign more suited to the likes of Miles Vorkosigan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Vorkosigan), Locke Lamora (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locke_Lamora), Eli Monpress (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11754293-the-legend-of-eli-monpress), and/or Moist von Lipwig (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moist_von_Lipwig) (attempting to include all four characters or four such characters would probably cause a campaign world to implode under the sheer weight of plot twistiness and "does he know that I know that he knows that I know that he knows that I know that....")

This two quotes more or less sum up my current campaign :smalltongue:

I want to play a treasure hunt campaign, Indiana Jones style.

[Karnith]

I have always wanted to play a Paranoia (or Paranoia-style, at least) game.

That, and a "Core is banned" game of D&D.

[GreenSerpent]

Yeah that last one, I've always wanted to be a spymaster with leadership, for more spymasters!

I couldn't find one of those stealth-and-intrigue campaigns myself, so I think I'm gonna have to DM one if I want to play it.

But that's on my RPing Bucket List.

[ButtSoup]

Jurassic Park. I've DM'd this as a one shot a few times, I would like to PC it at some point.
Comic Book Super Villains. Same as above.
A long term Zombie survival campaign.
...and Quantum Leap.

[Amnestic]

That, and a "Core is banned" game of D&D.

By "core is banned", I assume you're not going to be including skills or equipment? Maybe let feats through too (though maybe not!)?

So spells/classes/races from core banned?

[Karnith]

By "core is banned", I assume you're not going to be including skills or equipment? Maybe let feats through too (though maybe not!)?

So spells/classes/races from core banned?
Pretty much, yeah.

[Callin]

Zombie Survival
Post Apocalypse
CoC
a good Steampunk storyline


(hell you could turn all of that into 1 game lol.)