This is something I could do on my own, but I thought I'd post here to see what others thought. Colaboration is awesome.
I'm 30 years old, married and have a kid. That said, I have two younger brothers living with my parents and I recently got all of them interested in DND. So I've been DMing an ongoing game with them for the past seven or eight months. Not often, just when I'm in town.
That said, its basically a Forgotten Realms setting, since it's easy, but the game had been stagnating, so the last time we played, I decided to mix things up.
I had them investigating strange sightings in the mountains of people with metallic limbs and eyes. They found a recently excavated tower, revealed after a rockslide. upon investigation, they found deep in the mountain the remains of some ancient human city, with the remains of some ancient human technology that has been lost to time.
There was, of course, a Warlock who was experimenting with this ancient technology, creating imperfect cyborg minions. In fact, the main "Boss Fight" was with an undead cyborg in front of what appears to be a Stargate, which was also very recently excavated.
Long story short, while they were fighting, they managed to activate the Stargate, and one of them just decided to jump in immediately. They were winning the fight against the Warlock, when a figure came out of the stargate, covered in shiny plate armor, who was being controlled by the player who had jumped into the Stargate. It felled one of the remaining party members in one hit (he was almost dead anyway), and turned to the rest. The evil Warlock decided to plane shift away, and the remaining party members jumped through the Stargate to get away. Then the plate armor dude picked up the fallen party member and pulled him through the gate, which then shut off.
And that's where I left them. So here's what happened.
Basically, in my setting Humans came to this world thousands of years ago by means of a portal they had built. Humans had incredible technology at this time, but little to no magic. They built a city, but war broke out, and the humans were defeated, their way home destroyed when the wizards of this world threw a mountain down on top of the main Human settlement.
Thousands of years go by, all this is ancient history that not even the elves remember.
So basically, they found a passage back to the human homeworld. Or home realm. Whatever.
They're going to a world that has continued to progress technologically. For whatever reason, they never went back to the Fantasy world. Probably because only a few people actually knew of the experiments with the portals, and they were all on the Fantasy World when they were cut off. I want this new world to be Sci Fi extreme. i'm talking teleporters, flying vehicles, blasters, even laser swords. I might even have some Psionic NPC's. I figure Magic comes from the Weave, which is outside the actual universe, and can therefore be accessed from any universe, it's just people in this world have never figured out how to access it. They, instead, advanced their technology and mental abilities.
So what do you think I should put in it? What issues do you see coming up? I figured I'd use the Modern Magic UA, as many of the PC's have magic of one way or another, and I think it would be interesting to see them creating or discovering a new form of magic.
My intent is to have some kind of catastrophe happen due to the portal which causes an entire city on the Sci Fi world to be warped and transported to the Fantasy World, thus recreating the war between science and magic, but that's a little ways away.
I'm 30 years old, married and have a kid. That said, I have two younger brothers living with my parents and I recently got all of them interested in DND. So I've been DMing an ongoing game with them for the past seven or eight months. Not often, just when I'm in town.
That said, its basically a Forgotten Realms setting, since it's easy, but the game had been stagnating, so the last time we played, I decided to mix things up.
I had them investigating strange sightings in the mountains of people with metallic limbs and eyes. They found a recently excavated tower, revealed after a rockslide. upon investigation, they found deep in the mountain the remains of some ancient human city, with the remains of some ancient human technology that has been lost to time.
There was, of course, a Warlock who was experimenting with this ancient technology, creating imperfect cyborg minions. In fact, the main "Boss Fight" was with an undead cyborg in front of what appears to be a Stargate, which was also very recently excavated.
Long story short, while they were fighting, they managed to activate the Stargate, and one of them just decided to jump in immediately. They were winning the fight against the Warlock, when a figure came out of the stargate, covered in shiny plate armor, who was being controlled by the player who had jumped into the Stargate. It felled one of the remaining party members in one hit (he was almost dead anyway), and turned to the rest. The evil Warlock decided to plane shift away, and the remaining party members jumped through the Stargate to get away. Then the plate armor dude picked up the fallen party member and pulled him through the gate, which then shut off.
And that's where I left them. So here's what happened.
Basically, in my setting Humans came to this world thousands of years ago by means of a portal they had built. Humans had incredible technology at this time, but little to no magic. They built a city, but war broke out, and the humans were defeated, their way home destroyed when the wizards of this world threw a mountain down on top of the main Human settlement.
Thousands of years go by, all this is ancient history that not even the elves remember.
So basically, they found a passage back to the human homeworld. Or home realm. Whatever.
They're going to a world that has continued to progress technologically. For whatever reason, they never went back to the Fantasy world. Probably because only a few people actually knew of the experiments with the portals, and they were all on the Fantasy World when they were cut off. I want this new world to be Sci Fi extreme. i'm talking teleporters, flying vehicles, blasters, even laser swords. I might even have some Psionic NPC's. I figure Magic comes from the Weave, which is outside the actual universe, and can therefore be accessed from any universe, it's just people in this world have never figured out how to access it. They, instead, advanced their technology and mental abilities.
So what do you think I should put in it? What issues do you see coming up? I figured I'd use the Modern Magic UA, as many of the PC's have magic of one way or another, and I think it would be interesting to see them creating or discovering a new form of magic.
My intent is to have some kind of catastrophe happen due to the portal which causes an entire city on the Sci Fi world to be warped and transported to the Fantasy World, thus recreating the war between science and magic, but that's a little ways away.
