Thursday, October 13, 2011

Ideas

I've been working on a new Savage Worlds campaign based on our very first campaign, and I'm doing my best to generate as many ideas as I can. That way, when the campaign starts I have a whole lot of material to bring to bear to make the characters' adventures interesting.

I'm finding that I'm coming up with a lot of great new ideas in new and strange places. Where do you Hacklords find that you come up with the best gaming ideas?
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  1. Undead MercutioOctober 13, 2011 at 2:02 PM

    Specifically, I've been coming up with a lot of ideas during my commute to and from work. Historically however, my best ideas have come to me in the shower. Odd, but true.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 13, 2011 at 8:03 PM

    Borrow stuff from Slipstream, some of the races, planets, and such. I especially liked the bonus damage from graphic descriptions of player's damage.

    Make a planet that has tons of Ewoks and Gungans for us to slaughter mercilessly.

    I've been reading a few sci-fi novels here lately that involved mercenaries in outer space. Perhaps that could be a hook or something.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 13, 2011 at 8:22 PM

    As for ideas, for me it's books and movies. I read quite a bit, watch movies, look at web comics, and occasionally read real comics. Stuff comes to me while I'm reading/watching it or, when I'm doing something mindless at work, really bored.

    The whole 'flying berserkers' thing in that one game I ran, came from a nifty book I bought cheap when Borders closed. I read quite a bit of the Warhammer novels, and I can honestly say I love the background in their worlds. Also, I have like a ton of old gaming stuff from assorted sources, that I pillage freely for stuff (like the shrunken adventurers in the garden adventure we just finished last session). I went to the comic store a few weeks ago, and plowed through their discount bin. They have bunches of old gaming magazines for like fifty cents apiece. I saw one in there that had an article that I remembered as being incredibly useful.

    I've run adventures (or even just encounters)based on old movies that I liked. The Thing I ran in Warhammer RPG, and the movie The Last Dinosaur in D&D before that. Hell, I've got a King Kong adventure for D&D that I've never used sitting around collecting dust. I've seen a lot of movies, and almost every one has something that's made me think 'That would be super in a game'.

    There's quite a few web comics that are providing really fantastic entertainment for free, basically. Schlock Mercenary, Goblins, and Rusty & Company all provide exciting action and adventure on a daily, or weekly, basis. Rusty and Company, as well as Goblins, really makes me want to run an adventure where the party is nothing but monster. Schlock Mercenary is a sci-fi strip about futuristic space mercenaries.

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  4. Dave NelsonOctober 16, 2011 at 3:02 PM

    My most coherent, thought-out, ideas are often put together when I'm cutting the grass.

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