Serienna said:
Those are fantastic ideas. I love the idea of short cross-pollination campaigns personally and currently I'm at the conceptual stages of building one.
Good luck with that.
The real impetus behind the world-hopping was to gather new worshippers. Simon (the DM) had lots of different RPGs and settings and we'd always try and use the material in some capacity even if it wasn't D&D.
So the general idea was that there would be some problem somewhere and Thrin (or other PCs) would go in and sort it out.
- On Oerth, Thrin defeated a Draeden (with the help of the Norse Pantheon and a Stone of Amplification wrested from the Cult of Incabulos...that was a series of epic fights)
- On Nehwon, I remember multiple adventures helping Ninguable and at least one excursion against the Gods of Lanhkmar).
- On Mystara, Thrin tried to supplant the main Thyatian (war) goddess. That didn't go well, although I maintain she got lucky. Thrin was captured and had to be bailed out by the Norse Pantheon.
Lots of dealings with Graz'zt (Thrin's uncle). We sort of had a Thrin = Luke Skywalker, Graz'zt = Darth Vader thing going on with Thrin always trying to turn him to good (the two couldn't fight each other because of a truce...we'd been battling for years before that though).
Lots of dealings with the Devils (Mephisto in particular), where Thrin offered to help him defeat Asmodeus in return for a Layer of Hell. Of course Thrin was captured by Mephisto (I let my guard down in that encounter...I blame the fact that it was the first time I met Simon's wife to be that day). Again had to be ransomed, I think Mammon and Co. fleeced me for about 50 million that time.
Aiding Doomstar against the Moorcockian Sword Gods and the other Eldren.
...I think we had about a dozen worlds all in. I'd need to look up all the details.
For instance the Cyberpunk 2020 adventures came about when someone stole the Sword of Kas (very powerful in our Campaign) from Odin's vault. The cultprit Dimension jumped to the Cyberpunk 2020 world where they became a serial killer. So Odin sent Thrin in to get it back.
Part One: Initially appeared in a brawl between police and some cyber criminals, got arrested, and released to track down a serial killer: who had the Sword of Kas, he had built up a large cult following. During this time I had several run ins with the Arasaka Corporation (weapon manufacturer who sort of owned the police in the US) and things didn't go so well (they wanted the sword too). Had to deal with power-armoured soldiers but took them out and held one of their employees prisoner (In Asgard - since they'd just have got him released from jail).
Anyway, managed to find and slay the serial killer and take the sword but there was an army of cultists to take on. Unwittingly Thrin used the Sword of Kas to slay them all and as a result was possessed by the sword and turned to Chaotic Evil with one mission...to kill Odin (for keeping the sword locked up all those years). Got back to Asgard and fought against Tyr and Odin who double-teamed Thrin in an Anti-Magic Shell and managed to subdue him long enough to get a Helm of Opposite Alignment on him, then drop the AMS.
Part Two: Arasaka aided by a Dimension jumping Alien managed to get half a dozen soldiers kitted out in state of the art powered armour to gatecrash Thrin's home realm in Asgard (they could lock-on because I had their executive prisoner). These things were massively powerful and caught Thrin napping (literally...in bed with Reesha*). Thrin didn't have his full gear on but these things were mega tough as I recall, fitted with repeating grenade launchers I think Thrin was down to about 50% hp in one round. Had no option to teleport out, get my gear and take them out one at a time. But they had left by then.
*aka Mrs. Thrin, a Barbarian Warrior Princess Hero-deity (a bit like Red Sonja).
Part Three: Went back to cultivate some worshippers. Had an appearance on Oprah, getting worshipped by the Aryan Brotherhood (White Supremacists) which Lawful Good Thrin tried to turn to good. Negotiated with Arasaka swopping my Eldren Tech (PL 9 to their PL 6 stuff) for gold bullion - unfortunately for them we had booby trapped the stuff with micro-incendiaries and after the deal was done Thrin paid them back fro trying to kill me. Thrin also teamed up with the SAS, and got betrayed by the British Government and ambushed by Borg'ed out Russian Mercs (the leader of which was played by another PC)...Thrin was killed (and sent back to Asgard).
Still, fun times.
Star Trek! How did your lowly gods deal with the omnipotent Q?
Sadly we never encountered him (IIRC). Thrin encountered the crew of the Enterprise: D, but I can't remember the specifics of that adventure, may have involved Time Travel.
What would Q classify as in your ranking system? And what about their ability to completely rewrite reality?
I think you could argue they should be Time Lords perhaps.