One-Shots

[jeregenest]

I don't think we've been doing enough one-shots in our circle lately, so here are two I want to run.

I’ve been reading The Perfect Red, and as a result I have this craving to run a Conquistador horror game -- lots of jungle madness, weird Aztec stuff, and maybe cannibalism. Not sure the system, though Wyrd does come to mind, I’d like to try that system again. The players would be a party of Conquistadors that horrible things happen to. Ideally I’d then like to jump ahead a period of time, maybe 150-200 years and tell the story of a bunch of rich Hispanic aristocrats who encounter a similar thing. And then tell the same story, but for a bunch of kids on spring break in a van. This I guess makes it a three-shot.

robotnik once asked for a “magic school” game, and after reading the latest Chrestomanci book I have a neat little scenario in mind involving kids at a summer camp for magic youth. Not the same thing probably, but its summer and I want to explore the idea. Plus I like the idea of everyone having a counselor and a camper. I also have an idea for a more traditional magic school game, with its major inspiration A Separate Peace. Don’t know the system, but I would appreciate it if someone would lend me their copy of Dreaming Cities. Oh, and GURPS Infinite Worlds, I want to reread it this time with a specific question in mind.

Comments

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Magic summer camp! I like it.

Which reminds me: did anyone reading this ever read the YA novel (or see the movie) "Holes"? It's about a summer camp, I think, and on the old UA mailing list it was described as "Unknown Armies... for kids!" Which always seemed like something worth investigating.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I never got beyond the 2nd chapter. I don't remember why.

[bluegargantua]

I really want to do a one-shot Burning Wheel game. There's a rather nice demo scenario on the website about the command group for a horde of orcs and how it all goes downhill fast. Would be a lot of fun.

later
Tom

[smoagendash.livejournal.com]

Tell me more about this "Perfect Red." I have not heard of it.

-Tyler

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

A Perfect Red : Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060522755/002-0532816-0372813?v=glance) is one of those books (you know the type teres beena whole spate of them in the last few years) that takes an item or idea and arces its way through histor. In this case cochineal.

Its a fun read, one of the better of the ilk. But then I'm a sucker for this style of books, even if it drives most of the historians I know batty.

[smoagendash.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, neat! I definitely would like to borrow, at your convenience. It sounds like a great read, and might in fact make excellent fodder for my D&D pirate game (currently on hiatus).

-Tyler

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I borrowed it from the library.