{"id":3087,"date":"2016-08-12T13:36:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T20:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2017-05-30T16:28:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T23:28:36","slug":"hell-on-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/hell-on-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell on Wheels (for Gateway 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy post-<em><a href=\"http:\/\/gamingballistic.blogspot.com\/p\/gurps-day.html\">GURPSDay<\/a><\/em>\u00a0day!<\/p>\n<p>You may\u00a0have noticed I missed the Thursday deadline this week. Sorry about that! Occupational hazard from working overnights&#8230; I fell asleep, plain and simple, just passed out in front of the computer and didn&#8217;t wake up until it was time to leave for work again. (I am told sleeping four hours a day for extended periods is bad for you, but hey &#8212; so far so good!)<\/p>\n<p>The other deadline very much on my mind lately is for game submission for the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/strategicon.net\/index.php\">Gateway 2016<\/a> convention. That deadline would be&#8230; today. Sooo, I spent the morning after work brainstorming possible games to GM over the Labor Day weekend and finally came up with a blurb. That&#8217;s really all I need at this point &#8212; I don&#8217;t have to have the game prepped and ready to go for another few weeks, I just need to know enough about it to get it in the convention program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mind-blown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3088\" src=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mind-blown-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"mind-blown\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mind-blown-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mind-blown-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mind-blown.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are all the game possibilities I dreamed up\u00a0before finally hitting the one that felt right. This is the totally freewheelin&#8217;, no boundaries, sky&#8217;s the limit, completely spitballing ideas phase:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Streets of Fire (I will absolutely run this one day, but it&#8217;s going to need a <em>lot<\/em> of prep work and I just don&#8217;t have the time right now)<\/li>\n<li>Cavemen<\/li>\n<li>Four-color superheroes<\/li>\n<li>Modern grimdark superheroes<\/li>\n<li>Escape from New York<\/li>\n<li>Star Wars<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek<\/li>\n<li>Bunnies and Burrows (players seem to love B&amp;B as much as I do! Definitely running more of these eventually)<\/li>\n<li>Old West<\/li>\n<li>Cowboy Bebop<\/li>\n<li>Cyberpunk<\/li>\n<li>Stranger Things\u00a0(I loved the show, but I think a four-hour game of it would be&#8230; challenging)<\/li>\n<li>Firefly and\/or &#8220;Generic space western tramp freighter crew&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Fantasy Dungeon Crawl<\/li>\n<li>Fantasy Dungeon Crawl with PCs as the monsters<\/li>\n<li>Secret Life of Pets<\/li>\n<li>Real world RPG players &#8220;magically sucked into the game world&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Gritty Espionage (&#8220;Jason Bourne&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Cinematic Espionage (&#8220;James Bond&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Haunted House\/Call of Cthulhu<\/li>\n<li>Sequel to &#8220;The Boogeyman&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Big Trouble in Little China<\/li>\n<li>Age of Sail Pirates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->Basically, I let my brain percolate while I worked until it spit out an idea. Then I&#8217;d spend a couple of minutes mulling over what the PCs might be like and what adventures they could go on. If nothing really grabbed me, I just jotted it on the list and moved on until the next one.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of fun ideas in that list, and it will be nice to have it for the <em>next<\/em> convention prep, but I wasn&#8217;t really feeling any of them for this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I was cruising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/rpg\/\">\/r\/rpg<\/a> and saw a thread title called &#8220;Scenario\/Encounter ideas for motorcycle-traveller based RP.&#8221; Not the thread, just the title&#8230; for whatever reason, the word &#8220;motorcycle&#8221; set off my &#8220;Winnah!&#8221; bells and I immediately grew enthused about creating a party of PC outlaw bikers (shades of &#8220;Sons of Anarchy&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>I spent just a minute or two thinking of possible adventures for a group of PC criminal bikers and quickly realized I had like a dozen. Yay, game chosen!<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, now the real prep work is just beginning (and will be covered in future posts), but I have a very broad idea of what seems like a fun game so I entered this as my blurb for the convention booklet and registration:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The Hellhounds outlaw motorcycle club has been in decline for years, but this big score could really turn things around. Just watch your back as you make the drop &#8211; &#8211; things in this world aren&#8217;t always what they seem, and no matter how tough you are there&#8217;s always a bigger fish. NOTE: Characters are outlaw bikers and not Nice People at all. NO GURPS experience needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BAM. Deadline met, game submitted! Now I just have to actually prepare it and run it, but those are the fun parts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Random Tidbit<\/strong>: I am <em>really<\/em> looking forward to reading this week&#8217;s GURPS release, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warehouse23.com\/products\/SJG37-0153\">Adaptations<\/a>.&#8221; Meta\/GM-y kind of books are my absolute faves!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post and others like it, might you consider the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/TheMookNet?ty=h\">Game Geekery Patreon<\/a><em>?<\/em><br \/>\n<!--Precis - After falling asleep and missing yesterday's GURPSDay deadline, today I look at my brainstorming process for deciding on a new game to run at the Gateway 2016 convention in a few weeks. --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Happy post-GURPSDay\u00a0day! You may\u00a0have noticed I missed the Thursday deadline this week. Sorry about that! 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