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[bryant]

So this is an experiment.

I like genre-mashing. I also like drawing on the tropes of Western media to give genres a new spin. I also think the Game WISH is the bee’s knees.

Thus, I’m kicking out Monday Mashup as a writing exercise. The format is pretty simple: I’ll toss out a roleplaying game/setting and a piece of pop culture, and you write up a brief rendition of a possible campaign that incorporates ‘em both in whatever unhealthy form you prefer. If people dig it, I’ll keep going, and if not, I will continue to chortle about my weird ideas in privacy.

This week: the forensic scientists of CSI meet Greyhawk. Go!

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Comments

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

I like it! Both the Monday mashup idea and the specific CSI: Greyhawk deal.

Now, I don't actually watch CSI and I gave up Greyhawk for Krynn in about 1986, so I don't have much to add to this one specifically, but I do think it could be fun, especially for players that are more up on their D&D lore than I. A lot of the fun might be in the battling ingenuity of the GM and players in coming up with / puzzling out bizarre death scenes - Grimtooth-esque dungeon traps, elaborate spells, weird forensic foiling monsters (rust monsters, psionic attacks, etc. etc.)

It's one setting that would actually benefit from D&D's mechanistic sort of magic-as-technology vibe: this spell always works like this, this bizarre monster always does this, etc. And a given player's encyclopedic knowledge of the Monster Manual, usually so irritating, would be a natural and expected part of the game: I could easily imagine a case turning on the precise distinctions between Green Slime, Ochre Jelly, and Grey Ooze.

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

That is a really fantastic point! Wow. You've finally found a use for rules lawyers! Good job!