HeroGM Posted April 9, 2016 Report Share Posted April 9, 2016 Remember folks April is a 5th week. Time to plan those special sessions that take you away from a normal game. Who here has done 5th week style games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nothere Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 What is a 5th week style game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeroGM Posted April 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 DC and Marvel used to do miniseries that would come out on months with 5th weeks such as sins of youth or JL?. One year I did a week long game as a 5th week based on DCs Tangent. The characters had the same name but completely different power sets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterhawk Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 DC and Marvel used to do miniseries that would come out on months with 5th weeks such as sins of youth or JL?. One year I did a week long game as a 5th week based on DCs Tangent. The characters had the same name but completely different power sets That's a really cool idea. While I never framed it in a 5th week, I have done a couple of things to shake up the routine: I've handed out sheets of the NPC cops and agents the characters interacted with and played my rendition of the PCs back at them In the vein of X-Files/Supernatural, after a particularly heavy, drama intensive storyline, I've done a 'comedy episode'. These included a cartoonish parody villain team based on the PC's in another campaign mine alternated with and a three way slugfest between my versions of Hercules, Thor and a Lobo homage/parody which the PCs had to avert. My GM mentor in college did a cool one where one of the PCs fell asleep reading his daughter the Hobbit and dreamt of fantasy versions of the PCs. He handed out Fantasy Hero versions of our characters and we played out the dream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeroGM Posted April 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 We did two one year where we played in in another gms style. His mine and me his. there was an episode of two and a half men and csi where they traded writers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDarkness Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 One GM, in another game, did one where it began in a combat we were actually in the middle of from the previous session(hard to explain how this happened, it was an unavoidable thing, and one of the players was not there for this fifth week game, so we couldn't really continue). A gas grenade got thrown in our midst. We did not know it was a hallucinatory gas grenade. The entire game that day was a group hallucination in a Cthulhu-esque world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeroGM Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 This year's fifth week will take place in Wonderland. I have four players who are playing and figured that would be perfect for them to play with. More later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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