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[bryant]

Let’s take this meme out for another spin. Yep, it’s time for another Monday Mashup.

Ryan made a suggestion which I’m going to take up. He pointed out that a lot of respondants were interested in the idea but didn’t know enough about Greyhawk to take a stab at it. He suggested that I should pick a piece of modern media, and let people choose their own game for the purposes of adaptation. I think he’s right.

Thus, how to participate: pick a roleplaying world and talk about how you’d use the specified book/movie/TV show/whatever as an inspiration for a campaign or one-shot set in that world. You can post on your own blog or LiveJournal or in the comments here, as you see fit.

This week, your mashup subject is Invasion of the Body Snatchers. (The 1978 remake is also valid fodder.)

My contribution follows.

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[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Cool, another Monday Mashup! Only on Tuesday for me since I wasn’t online much yesterday.

Fun idea. The D&D setting I know best is Dragonlance. If you transplanted the pod people into Krynn you’d have much the same contrast of paranoia and high fantasy that you describe for FR. One of the big secrets revealed halfway through the Dragonlance series is that the evil draconian armies are being manufactured from good dragon eggs. It’s a pretty ho hum secret, all things considered, so maybe you could replace it with some kind of body snatcher riff to give it a little more oomph.

But I gotta figure that when you get right down to it, in many D&D worlds, with polymorph spells, and gateways to the Abyss, and giant floating eyeballs with more eyeballs on stalks for hair that shoot fricking death rays out of their fricking eyeballs, aliens that can look like people are just not going to be all that horrifying. Unless you can think of some clever way to go right for the players’ own sense of autonomy (“something is turning PCs into … gasp … NPCs!”).

Hmm. What about a game set in the modern day, or in the Atomic Horror 1950s, where the players played the alien body snatchers? Each new person they take over they get to add to the roster of characters. Let them kibitz as much as they want and call it a hive mind.