Hudson City rocks OUT!!!

[Lockdown]

Hi everyone, sorry i haven't posted in awhile... been busy with school, a new house, upcomming nupitals and such and havnt got those dang pictures posted yet of our DC game. I promise to get some pics soon... i wanna show a modified version of vehicle combat in DC thats fast and easy.
now let me show you whats going on in my campaign....
In my DC game run in hudson City, I was bandying around a few ideas with the players on where to take it... go total goth, an animated series, pulp... but since our regular gaming group can be as little as 3 to 10 at a single sitting... devleloping plot lines can be a pain. But something came as a joke that worked out as a stroke of genuis...

El Mariachi game:
in this Campaign, everyone is a member of the band ( and it doenst matter who shows up that night, you can keep it serial and just roll with it). By night you rock out and by day you kill the bad guy.

In our CURRENT Band, The Circle of Thorns a ska/punk/metal/rock/regge/fusion/jazz band that by day hunts down evil dooers and by night rocks out the local clubs ( i got the idea from el mariarchi).

currently we have on the roster:
Clarise Chauncy : lead singer and keyboard/songwriter ( knifefighter! and former HCPD)
Jason Bower : Bassist /songwriter ( Munitons expert and loves his LAW rocket!)
Linsie [: Drummer and financer and also spoiled rich girl runaway(Martial arts specialist and driver)
Shortie : Bodyguard and general security (driver and gun nut!)
Blade : backup guitar and general baddass of the band (Sword and blade specalist)
Heinrich [: the digital gansta/soundman (driver and recovering vampire)

together these people have done the following CURRENTLY in Hudson city:

Blown up 5 square blocks of the city (it was a small fire in freetown that got OUT of control)
burnt down 2 crack houses
burnt down 1 meth lab
killed over 100 ninjas
killed over 100 shango gangsters
pissed off a serial killer
destroyed a home for the aged
crashed a ambulance transporting elderly patient who was going to go get a heart transplant
stopped 3 convience store robberies
rocked OUT several venues
lost a record deal
lost $100,000 sign on bonus
stole a bio-toxin weapon and turned it over to the feds...
stopped a serial killer with a van ( it rammed his car and blew up REAL GOOD!)
built an underground lair ( the first circle of hell its called )
made friends with a chop shop man
got a contact killed by shango
pissed off some terrorists by stealing their bio-weapon
prevented the theft of a high-tech vehicle and made a deal to get some of the tech from the creator.
located a yakuzia hangout.
pissed off the russian mob.

and cut their first album.

there is more.. but i decline to post it due to it all ties in to the next game we have going.

gotta run... got a date with a vigilante!

[Ephelides]

Are these the heroes or the villains?! :shock:

j/k :winkgrin:

If you can, get a copy of Hero System Almanac. It's got an article right up this line. 4th Ed., but converting it shouldn't be hard.

[Lockdown]

well lets say they are not heros or villans.. their vigilantees who TRY to minimize the dmg to civilians... but they have had a streak of bad luck when it comes to properity dmg ( hey the gm has to put a LITTLE something on these guys to keep them in line.. besides it adds a little to them and it has popped up MORE story lines by doing that... like the FBI and local law enforcement keeping an eye on them !!!)

thanks for replying and ill look up the info..

[shadowcat1313]

one of the all time classic traveller adventures was called "Roadshow" and involved a rock band on an interstellar tour, the players were actually the road crew... this was written by John M Ford and was great fun...

no reason you couldnt adapt it for something modern...

trying to keep the band out of trouble could be really entertaining... depending on the tastes of the band especially

the last time we ran this as a traveller game the band was a neo-celtic heavy metal band that had a taste for recreational agronomy among other things

[Matt Frisbee]

I ran a group similar to that, but the bunch were scouts with a surfing fetish. Now, that was a fun and seriously laid back campaign. The players were so serious about it, I had to create surfing encounters tables for them...

Matt "Hanging-ten-on-the-tsunami-of-gaming-memories" Frisbee

[Lockdown]

ill give that a read... im not usually out of ideas for this group.. they tend to "fuel their own fire" so to speak.... they seem to go out of the way to give me plot ideas and plotlines...

or they are just sloppy vigilantees who want to get drunk and rock out all night long, but hey its ska/punk/metal/rock/regge/fusion/jazz , anything goes ;D

[Lockdown]

hey everyone.. well the big saturday event happened... I had a "weapons expo" at the hudson city convention center. The main attraction being shown off was a tactical nuclear device brought in by the govt (yes a working tactical nuke) and the players knew it was going to be hit ( i gave them an obvious one.. gotta throw them a bone).

but i had 12 plotlines going on that day. The players only found out 7 of them so gotta give them credit. AND... they made oodles of contacts (for furture purposes ) so that they can if they choose to spend points on in the future.

but the funniest thing is i imported an old game as a storyline now in my campaign. If you rememer the old RPG Ninjaburger then you will get a specal laugh out of this one. Even though hudson city has several fast food chains, the major ones in my campaign are Ninja-Burger (home of the Ninja-to, their version of the wopper) and Samuri-dog ( Ill take the Ronin with fries and emperor-size it). I wanted to add a little bit of laughter now and then so the players can just chuckle from time to time. so... the 2 fast food joints are having an all out war. Both deliver 24 hours (or can drive thru or take out) but both try to upstart each-other with a combat with foam weapons and paper mache armor ( they ARE civilians and just promoting the image ya know!) .

The Saturday event at the convention , the food was sponsored by SAMURI-DOG... and ninja-burger would not let that stand idly by and happen. SO they did an impromtu attack and tried to assail the booths samuri-dog had set up.... but my heros put a bunch of them in the hospital ( as i said .. they are civilians..) so i gave them credit for foiling one of my plotlines. But if you look up at a rooftop sometime, and see a ninja with a white paper bag with a ninja hood symbol on it... remember dont shoot the civs.. they only get paid $5.65 / hour plus tips for deliveries. :D

overall they had a blast and had fun. Yes they stoped the bomb from being stolen but now they got press coverage of their activites... HMMM wonder who will be looking for them NOW that they are on the grid?

[Vassoom]

but the funniest thing is i imported an old game as a storyline now in my campaign. If you rememer the old RPG Ninjaburger then you will get a specal laugh out of this one. Even though hudson city has several fast food chains, the major ones in my campaign are Ninja-Burger (home of the Ninja-to, their version of the wopper) and Samuri-dog ( Ill take the Ronin with fries and emperor-size it). I wanted to add a little bit of laughter now and then so the players can just chuckle from time to time. so... the 2 fast food joints are having an all out war. Both deliver 24 hours (or can drive thru or take out) but both try to upstart each-other with a combat with foam weapons and paper mache armor ( they ARE civilians and just promoting the image ya know!) .

The Saturday event at the convention , the food was sponsored by SAMURI-DOG... and ninja-burger would not let that stand idly by and happen. SO they did an impromtu attack and tried to assail the booths samuri-dog had set up.... but my heros put a bunch of them in the hospital ( as i said .. they are civilians..) so i gave them credit for foiling one of my plotlines. But if you look up at a rooftop sometime, and see a ninja with a white paper bag with a ninja hood symbol on it... remember dont shoot the civs.. they only get paid $5.65 / hour plus tips for deliveries. :D

overall they had a blast and had fun. Yes they stoped the bomb from being stolen but now they got press coverage of their activites... HMMM wonder who will be looking for them NOW that they are on the grid?Ninja Burger vs Samurai Dog?! Outstanding! Repped!

Dude, you have GOT to make it a three way battle royale...add "Pirate Pizza" to the mix!

Samurai and Ninjas and Pirates, oh my! ;)

- Vassoom

[Twilight]

Just for the sake of reference, here's the Ninja Burger website.

www.ninjaburger.com

:D

[Questar]

I promise to get some pics soon... i wanna show a modified version of vehicle combat in DC thats fast and easy.



I so want to see this.

[Lockdown]

sorry ill get the pics put up.. give me a few days (ive been lazy about getting the pics developed.. sorry ;< )