From:	"Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM>
Subject:	Re: Weird Campaigns
Date:	Tue, 19 May 1998 01:19:52 -0400

>Has anyone ever run just a truly whack-ass campaign?

Nope. Not me. My campaigns are all simple and by the book. ;-)
<He don't know me very well, do he?>
OK, I admit it. All my campaigns are "Whack-Ass!"

>Anyway, was wondering if anyone had done anything similar, or if anyone had
>other off-beat campaigns that they've been in or ran.

Let's see ... I did a Genetic Experiments campaign.
Each of the PC's was a real oddball meta-type. I had a vampire, a
were-cheetah (keep in mind this was in SR1 days, so he WAS an oddball!) a
sasquatch and a few others I can't remember.
I made the PC's and kept the character sheets. So none of the players knew
what they were playing. I simply described them generally, and let it go
from there.
The game started when the group all woke up naked in a dumpster.
(Their experiments were deemed faiures and they were to be "disposed of" a
soft-hearted scientist set them free, rather than killing them.)
The catch here was that the experiments were all in socializing these
"non-human" metas, so aside from the sasquatch, none of the others knew that
they were anything but a normal human. Their memories were erased
completely.
The vampire found out what he was pretty quick when the sun came up, and the
shapeshifter learned about regeneration quickly as well.

Bull has been bugging me to let him play his kids, so I might work up an
"Son of Sam-I-Am" campaign, in which the current players all play their kids
in the future (Maybe around 2075, when the kids will be old enough for some
fun!)

I just finished reading Terry Pratchet's "Men at Arms" and I've been
dreaming up a Lone Star campaign where the players all play completely
mundane-non-cybered rookie cops. Just to make the Pplayers really live by
their wits! ;-)

We're working on an all aquatic campaign too. All the PC's will be Water
Elemental Adepts, Aquatic Shamans, or amphibious were-critters.
Right now I'm leaning toward making the team part of Aqua Arcana from CFS,
but I might go the easy route and let them be Butt-Pirates of the
Carribbean! ;-)
<For some reason they ALL wanna kill Gingerbread Man?!?>

I've been considering doing up a SR version of White-Wolf's Changeling, or
maybe just a WOD/SR crossover campaign, where we use SR rules and setting,
but mix in the WOD races of the Kindred, Garou, and Kithain.
Of course I'll never get this done until I finish my SR re-write of Over the
Edge, so don't hold your breath ... ;-)

Steven A. Tinner
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