Questions and Suggestions for my next campaign.

[Herolover]

Hello all. I am looking for input on my next campaign.

I am starting to plan my campaign and since I will be picking up the new Pulp Hero book and have some players that have shown great my next campaign will be a Pulp adventures game. I am wanting (hoping) to make a game that is 60% Indian Jones, 20% Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, and 20% everything else.

My Basic Idea
The campaign starts in 1936. The PCs are hired by a multi-millionaire philanthropist for a “project� he is putting together. They travel to (some remote out of the way place TBA). (I may put an adventure together based on their travel.) Once at the TBA place they find that the philanthropist has built a massive airship. I am thinking something like 1.5 times the Hindenburg. It will have its own crew, science staff and labs, I am even basing a squadron of 5-6 “fighter� planes on the airship.

The idea I have for the campaign is that “airship� travels around the world investigating strange areas (can you say lost worlds), archeological digs, and other sites of interest helping natives, fighting wrongs, and generally getting into trouble.

What do you think? Do you have suggestions? Adventure ideas, problems you see, etc

[Barton]

Ethiopia, Fascists (both kinds, Italian and German). Need I say more.

[Curufea]

Suggestions :-

Rival airship with more competant, and possibly evil adventurers.

The PCs anger some local secret society (possibly because they discover something they shouldn't) - the society starts sending assassins after them. All the assassins use some quasi-mystical powers and a trademark of the society.

Plateau hitherto unreachable - Lost World.

Problems-
Engine malfunction of course - they are left to drift and run out of food, classic "sailors in a lifeboat" problem, only airborne.
Pocket of tremendous updraft, flings them into the stratosphere - emergency oxygen or lose consciousness and wake up who knows where (or possibly even suffocate). Or in the case of the R101 (and Doctor Who) - meeting an alien spacecraft.

[BigJackBrass]

This idea has some similarities to the premise behind the Terra Incognita, and I'd certainly recommend a visit to the excellent www.nagssociety.com website to have a look at the resources and links there. I regularly find useful tips that I'd never have come across on my own.

[fredrik_nilsson]

I suggest you let the characters take a closer look at the the Bermuda Triangle.

[Herolover]

Thanks for the suggestions, ideas, and comments. Keep them coming. I am hoping to have a neat campaign that touches on some of all the PULP ideas and think I have it so that a player could play a lot of different type characters.

[Herolover]

Pocket of tremendous updraft, flings them into the stratosphere - emergency oxygen or lose consciousness and wake up who knows where (or possibly even suffocate). Or in the case of the R101 (and Doctor Who) - meeting an alien spacecraft.

Is this one of the new episodes? I don't remember that on in the old and don't get the new

[the Evil DM]

ok this may be a stretch but if done properly it might be pretty cool. on this really big ship in between adventures, are a series of dissapearances and murders. the culprit? a vampire. either a member of the crew (like the assistant to the engineer on the Nightwatch) or a stow away who is being protected by a trusted member of the crew (Ensign Renfield?). at first throw some red herrings to make it look like the murderer is a jack the ripper madman type- then throw in the supernatural element.
I used this in a star frontiers game i once ran. I set it on a mining asteroid. a cross between the sci-Fi movie"Outland" with Sean Connery and Dracula.

[Mentor]

Africa is a seething continent of European imperial plots and conterplots ,unknown indigenous civilizations, ancient evils reawakened by unfortunate people or bad timing, natives hungering to throw off the yokes of oppressors, impassable plateaus and valleys populated with creatures from Earth's past or even myth.

Asia, North America, South America, Australia, Antarctica all offer equal possibilities. If those aren't enough, Mu, Lemuria, or Atlantis are merely waiting to be reemerged by the right tectonics, vulcanism or indiscreet perusal of the wrong Tome.

[Curufea]

Is this one of the new episodes? I don't remember that on in the old and don't get the new

It's from the Big Finish radioplay Storm Warning with the 8th Doctor and Charlie Pollard

[Alistair]

Hello all. I am looking for input on my next campaign.



My Basic Idea
The campaign starts in 1936. The PCs are hired by a multi-millionaire philanthropist for a “project� he is putting together. They travel to (some remote out of the way place TBA). (I may put an adventure together based on their travel.) Once at the TBA place they find that the philanthropist has built a massive airship. I am thinking something like 1.5 times the Hindenburg. It will have its own crew, science staff and labs, I am even basing a squadron of 5-6 “fighter� planes on the airship.

The idea I have for the campaign is that “airship� travels around the world investigating strange areas (can you say lost worlds), archeological digs, and other sites of interest helping natives, fighting wrongs, and generally getting into trouble.

What do you think? Do you have suggestions? Adventure ideas, problems you see, etc

There's some good pictures of the US Navy's flying aircraft carriers the Akron and Macon here:

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/a...types/zrs4.htm
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/a...types/zrs5.htm

Cheers

Alistair

[Curufea]

Good idea, links-

Here's stuff about airships and the R101
http://www.aht.ndirect.co.uk/airship...R101_Crash.htm

Here's a paper model
http://www.currell.net/models/r101.htm

[st barbara]

Ah but is he REALLY a philanthropist ? Or is he just using the heros for some nefarious purpose ? Why are coded signals being received on the airship late at night, and why does no-one in the crew want to talk about that fog shrouded island south of New Zealand that appears ONLY on the old map in the captain's cabin ?

[Herolover]

Ah but is he REALLY a philanthropist ? Or is he just using the heros for some nefarious purpose ? Why are coded signals being received on the airship late at night, and why does no-one in the crew want to talk about that fog shrouded island south of New Zealand that appears ONLY on the old map in the captain's cabin ?

LOL, yeah I have thought about using something along this lines. However, I think I am gonna keep him as a good guy, but the PCs will be doing a lot of strange things.

[McCoy]

I presume the airship uses helium. But what if a blowout in an isolated area? difficult to find helium in the wild, but hydrogen is water + electricity.