Post by Disparagingtheboot on Aug 13, 2016 18:19:40 GMT -5
This isn't a recruitment thread, unless something really picks up interest. It's more for rapid fire throwing-out of all your ChroD campaign ideas, all the games you've wanted to run or play in. "Pitches" can be as long or as short as you want.
Example:
- In a fairly nice, quiet town called Princeton, you attended a fairly nice, quiet private high school called the Nadir Peak School of Princeton. You had a pretty average life- some hobbies, some friends, and so on. Sure, there were parts that didn't always make sense. Like when you realized your house didn't have an address. Or when you an A on your report card, but it didn't list any classes or anything else and the whole report card was just a blank sheet of paper with a large "A" written on it in marker. Or how your parents are physically identical and neither of them blink. But none of that really bothered you. You had classes and other stuff to worry about. You were in the second half of high school, on the cusp of or just over the line of adulthood when it happened. At the beginning of the year, the very beginning, it was just a little disturbance. In his beginning of the year speech the principal mentioned that the state government had chosen your school as one of the test sites for a "new educational college preparatory standardized educational system" sponsored by Fiber, some "educational technologies" startup you'd never heard of. He tried to make it sound like an honor for the school, but he crammed the announcement in at the end and almost seemed like he was hurrying past it. Also, he was sweating through the whole speech. And there were guys in dark suits and glasses lurking around. But you got used to all of that. Things were maybe a little weirder, a little louder, a little more dangerous, but what were a few more lacerations and broken bones? Only a few kids disappeared, and it wasn't anyone you knew well.
And then, one night, when you found yourself staying late at the school for whatever reason, it happened. You heard what sounded almost like an explosion from the woods behind the school, you saw a white flash, and you blacked out for a little. When you woke up, you realized that you weren't actually a high school student. You weren't a teenager or a young adult or an adult or however old you thought you were. You weren't human. You were a creature of metal and plastic and living fire and cameras and wires and gun barrels and cement and eyes, you had been placed in that school to do a job- and you had failed.
Or:
- The once-prestigious Long Beach Island Oceanographic Institute is desperate for funds and starts using its small fleet of air and watercraft for a smuggling operation. Essentially, Breaking Bad if Walter had a degree in Marine Biology instead of chemistry.
And, one I've always wanted to try:
- Evil carnies. They're one of horror'a favorite go-to enemies. But what's it actually like to be an evil carnie? What are their lives like? Basically, all the players are spooky carnies. Funnel cake is required for each session.