Seeds

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Story/Adventure Seeds are short bits of ideas that can be used to develop stories/adventures/campaigns. So I thought a page of 'Seeds and related ideas for stories might be helpful.

This page is just a place to put story ideas that aren't long enough to merit a page in their own right. There's little point in making an article for a single paragraph, it's easier to read it all if it's on one page.

[edit] The End of the World

The end of the world features prominently in a lot of fiction. So, this list focuses on that kind of scenario.

Blue boxes like this can be used to provide additional information, such as references, sources, etc.

Besides devoting an entire campaign to this, it could be fun to have a long running Mysteries campaign suddenly change pace and become a Post-Apocalyptic, or just throw in an apocalypse for awhile so that you get the feeling of the setting, and then have the world start to recover from the problem, which would return the campaign back to what it was before, or change into something else.

GURPS Y2K™ deals with end of the world scenarios, and this list should attempt not to replicate it's work, but rather bring to focus alternative scenarios not discussed in that book.

[edit] Causes

Godzilla

After weeks of strange weather anomalies, a massive creature has appeared near New York! It is believed to have been the cause of the weather anomalies and capable of breathing fire!

Films and fiction often deal with apocalyptic scenarios. For example: * War of the Worlds * Independence Day also see the Wikipedia article on Disaster Films.

The PCs could be military ordered to kill it, average citizens living within the city who happen to have the kind of experience that makes them think they might be able to kill the monster, or mercenaries working for the Illuminati, sent to destroy this creature for reasons unknown.

Robots

Before robots can go crazy and start destroying the world, they have to be built. And building robots that are strong enough to kill people in large enough numbers to be a significant threat would be very expensive, it does however certainly sound like something the Illuminati might do; especially if the robots weren't crazy, but were in fact following orders. This seems more like in a futuristic setting when robots could be less expensive.

Martians

Flying saucers are spotted near major cities. Soon after things start exploding. After that there are landed vehicles moving around. Who knows what these aliens want?

Inexplicable Disappearance

You go to work, find the building deserted, start wandering around. The people in the city have disappeared without a trace or explanation. The only evidence you find is the word CROATOAN, written on one of the walls.

Low Tech to High Tech

The part goes around for a quest in a low tech planet during the quest the party finds a tranporter and is teleported to a far of planet then the roleplay focuses on the party getting home. <Cybsealsmom