Emergency Replacement Campaigns Do you keep a contingency campaign handy in case of TPK? If my Greyhawk players are crushed by the giants of Geoff, Anomalous Subsurface Environment is up to bat.
Originally shared by Jonathan Tweet Tonight, my "Lethal Damage" 13th Age campaign draws to a close. Meanwhile, the guys are work have talked me into running a couple D&D sessions for them. That was the day 13th Age was announced, and they're happy to play 13th Age instead. That will be my "Great Center" campaign, based in the imperial capital of Axis, the center of the world. It's my opportunity to explore the setting from yet another perspective.
From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
You wouldn't just have folks make up new PCs and continue to explore the same world?
ReplyDeleteThe players might vote for that, in which case I'd go along with it. But I've got gamer ADD. Always something new to try.
ReplyDeleteWhen this has happened in the past I kept the same world and moved to a different area where they had not visited before.
ReplyDeleteMy 4E TPK insurance was to offer the dead PCs jobs as the Raven Queen's commandos.
ReplyDelete(Raven Queen = goddess of the underworld, essentially)
Nice.
ReplyDeleteI rarely TPK. I will Total Party Handicap ;)
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