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[masque]

'Childish Things' 

After rummaging their ship/TARDIS/main mode of transport, the PCs discover a strange object. An ordinary rabbit made out of cloth and rags. No one knows who this belongs to but they can't help but shake a sense of familiarity regarding it. All of them remember this simple rabbit appearing or playing a role during their childhood or earliest days. Even the Robot or other extremely alien PCs seem to have deja vu when it comes to this toy. The question, of course, is why? 

Note: Works best with an extremely varied TARDIS crew. Really play up the strangeness and mystery surrounding this rabbit. Two Earthlings might have reasonably stumbled across this at one point or another during their lives but an Ood? Or a Cybermen? I doubt it.

'TPK' 

After centuries of hopelessly trying to fill the void that is immortality, the Celestial Toymaker has finally found his greatest game yet. Tabletop Roleplaying. Abducting our PCs, he forces them to play through his specially made Sword and Sorcery campaign creating an entire fantasy world in his Toyroom with him serving as the worlds' god or more appropriately GM. To lose is to become his toy and remain forever in his Celestial Toyroom. Trouble is the Toymaker is not the fairest of GMs and will try his utmost to prevent our heroes from succeeding. 

'Mr. Widemouth'

Your PCs under the pretence of being child psychologists interview a child who proclaims to have an imaginary friend much like a Furby called Mr. Widemouth who encourages them to do dangerous things yet is unable to be seen by their parents. Mr. Widemouth however, is very much real and does not at all approve of the PCs arrival. In fact, he is very, very angry. 

Note: Based on the Creepypasta of the same name.

'The Burger Wars'

A malfunction with the TARDIS causes it to land in the US in an alternative and extremely bizarre future. The entire country after being destroyed in an unspecified nuclear war has now been divided up among the descendants of various fast food corporations. The most prominent of these being the great-great-great-great-great grandson of Ronald McDonald and the Burger King and their deranged followers. With their TARDIS captured, the PCs must pick a side if they stand any chance of surviving this strange world.

Note: Based on an old Judge Dredd comic strip in 2000 AD. Honest. 

As per usual if anyone has any suggestions, criticisms or general ways to expand on this idea (as well as my previously posted 'The Show Must Go On' idea) please don't hesitate to speak up.

[thereviewer]

Oct 16, 2018 19:48:37 GMT masque said:

'Childish Things' 

After rummaging their ship/TARDIS/main mode of transport, the PCs discover a strange object. An ordinary rabbit made out of cloth and rags. No one knows who this belongs to but they can't help but shake a sense of familiarity regarding it. All of them remember this simple rabbit appearing or playing a role during their childhood or earliest days. Even the Robot or other extremely alien PCs seem to have deja vu when it comes to this toy. The question, of course, is why? 

Note: Works best with an extremely varied TARDIS crew. Really play up the strangeness and mystery surrounding this rabbit. Two Earthlings might have reasonably stumbled across this at one point or another during their lives but an Ood? Or a Cybermen? I doubt it.

'TPK' 

After centuries of hopelessly trying to fill the void that is immortality, the Celestial Toymaker has finally found his greatest game yet. Tabletop Roleplaying. Abducting our PCs, he forces them to play through his specially made Sword and Sorcery campaign creating an entire fantasy world in his Toyroom with him serving as the worlds' god or more appropriately GM. To lose is to become his toy and remain forever in his Celestial Toyroom. Trouble is the Toymaker is not the fairest of GMs and will try his utmost to prevent our heroes from succeeding. 

'Mr. Widemouth'

Your PCs under the pretence of being child psychologists interview a child who proclaims to have an imaginary friend much like a Furby called Mr. Widemouth who encourages them to do dangerous things yet is unable to be seen by their parents. Mr. Widemouth however, is very much real and does not at all approve of the PCs arrival. In fact, he is very, very angry. 

Note: Based on the Creepypasta of the same name.

'The Burger Wars'

A malfunction with the TARDIS causes it to land in the US in an alternative and extremely bizarre future. The entire country after being destroyed in an unspecified nuclear war has now been divided up among the descendants of various fast food corporations. The most prominent of these being the great-great-great-great-great grandson of Ronald McDonald and the Burger King and their deranged followers. With their TARDIS captured, the PCs must pick a side if they stand any chance of surviving this strange world.

Note: Based on an old Judge Dredd comic strip in 2000 AD. Honest. 

As per usual if anyone has any suggestions, criticisms or general ways to expand on this idea (as well as my previously posted 'The Show Must Go On' idea) please don't hesitate to speak up.

I like these ideas a lot! The last one I would fully expect from a Judge Dredd Comic. I also have plans to run an adventure somewhat based on and inspired by the late Steve Dillion's classic masterpiece; Cry of the Werewolf where Dredd faced off against a group of werewolves. I plan to reuse the Werelox from the Doctor Who Magazine Comic Strip in place of the Werewolves with an unknown puppet-master controlling the Werelox and purposefully spreading the virus across a planet for unknown reasons. 

Though the idea of two fast-food-joints going to nuclear war with each other is one of the least strangest ideas that found its way into comic form.

Hence my thoughts on 'TPK.' The idea of the Toymaker being gamemaster is enough to bring a wide Joker-like smile to my face and make me laugh in all the right ways. I am now picturing William Hartnell saying "No camping!" While the Toymaker laughs and declares "LOL N00B!" It actually reminds me of the current Rick and Morty VS Dungeons & Dragons comic going on now. Yes. You heard me right. There's an officially-licensed crossover comic which pairs Rick and Morty with Dungeons & Dragons. Before you ask, yes, it is completely insane and well worth a read. 

'Mr. Widemouth' also sounds great. Kind of reminds me of The X-Files mixed with Stanley Kubrick's The Shinning and Silence of the Lambs with a pinch of Child's Play and Gremlins thrown in. I might actually want to run this adventure now! 

Is 'Childish Things' meant to be based on anything? That one I get a sense of Red Dwarf crossed with Toy Story and Rick and Morty's 'Total Rickall' episode influencing this one.

Anyways, great work! I'll definitely try to run some of these in the future!

[masque]

Glad you liked the ideas. Feel free to expand on them for your own campaign. To be honest, the 'Childish Things' Adventure seed I just came up with on my own without basing it on any pre-existing material. I had the idea that the rabbit could possibly be a piece of therapeutic tech often used by therapists throughout the galaxy which brings up otherwise forgotten happy memories by implanting itself in the patients' mind. I don't know, it was just a thought.

[starkllr]

'TPK'

After centuries of hopelessly trying to fill the void that is immortality, the Celestial Toymaker has finally found his greatest game yet. Tabletop Roleplaying. Abducting our PCs, he forces them to play through his specially made Sword and Sorcery campaign creating an entire fantasy world in his Toyroom with him serving as the worlds' god or more appropriately GM. To lose is to become his toy and remain forever in his Celestial Toyroom. Trouble is the Toymaker is not the fairest of GMs and will try his utmost to prevent our heroes from succeeding.

Oh, fun! And of course, since it's a role playing game, the PC's will not be themselves - they'll be playing characters.

The Toymaker might have some pregen characters they can pick from (without letting them see the character sheets, of course!). I'm imagining something like the recent version of Jumanji here.

Or the PC's might have to create and stat up their characters. Break out the D20's and random tables! Or if you're feeling especially nasty, pull out the old Traveller rules and see if you can kill off one of the PCs during character generation!

[thereviewer]

Nov 8, 2018 19:18:51 GMT starkllr said:

'TPK'

After centuries of hopelessly trying to fill the void that is immortality, the Celestial Toymaker has finally found his greatest game yet. Tabletop Roleplaying. Abducting our PCs, he forces them to play through his specially made Sword and Sorcery campaign creating an entire fantasy world in his Toyroom with him serving as the worlds' god or more appropriately GM. To lose is to become his toy and remain forever in his Celestial Toyroom. Trouble is the Toymaker is not the fairest of GMs and will try his utmost to prevent our heroes from succeeding.

Oh, fun! And of course, since it's a role playing game, the PC's will not be themselves - they'll be playing characters.

The Toymaker might have some pregen characters they can pick from (without letting them see the character sheets, of course!). I'm imagining something like the recent version of Jumanji here.

Or the PC's might have to create and stat up their characters. Break out the D20's and random tables! Or if you're feeling especially nasty, pull out the old Traveller rules and see if you can kill off one of the PCs during character generation!

Another idea (and probably the one I'll use when I eventually run this game), is take note of how your PC's play throughout your regular games and have them wake up in a Fantasy-Like World already within the Toymaker's realm and have them regroup after discovering their new identities and character archetypes before the Toymaker appears (either in his Chinese Mandarin Getup or perhaps a new look if you are inclined to give him one) to explain what's going on and what's at risk here.