Eosin
Dec 22nd, '05, 10:02 PM
Four Brothers as a DC Campaign Premise?
I just watched Four Brothers and thought that it would make one hell of a campaign starter. Basically, there is a saintly woman who takes in children. Usually she manages to find these children adoptive parents but more than a few were problematic enough that they weren’t adoptable. These children she raises by herself.
Fast forward to the point where most of these hundreds of children who passed through her door have grown into adulthood. Then brutally murder her.
Instant campaign with the players all tied together but capable of coming from any background. Dozens of strange contacts. Last but not least, the Characters who seek to find her killers are forced into some ugly underworld politics, each layer revealing only that the killers were sent from another layer (villainous mastermind). By the time the characters achieve their original goal they will have made enough enemies and seen such ugly stuff that they can’t really walk away from vigilantism.
I just watched Four Brothers and thought that it would make one hell of a campaign starter. Basically, there is a saintly woman who takes in children. Usually she manages to find these children adoptive parents but more than a few were problematic enough that they weren’t adoptable. These children she raises by herself.
Fast forward to the point where most of these hundreds of children who passed through her door have grown into adulthood. Then brutally murder her.
Instant campaign with the players all tied together but capable of coming from any background. Dozens of strange contacts. Last but not least, the Characters who seek to find her killers are forced into some ugly underworld politics, each layer revealing only that the killers were sent from another layer (villainous mastermind). By the time the characters achieve their original goal they will have made enough enemies and seen such ugly stuff that they can’t really walk away from vigilantism.