Re: [GZG AARs] Scenarios or games with a twist or smile

At 01:54 PM 5/1/02 +1000, you wrote:
>G'day,
>
>I'd be interested in hearing of any scenario set-ups or match-ups that
have
>lead to a light-hearted or exciting or unexpected twist to a game.
That's
>what I was kinda after with my "envoy" scenario. Any more out there,
FT, DS,
>SG, FMA???

Well, I liked *your* scenario, and plan to steal it at some point.  And
I've already posted about the scenario I plan to run involving the alien
animals and the Rifletrees.  I've got another idea involving a crowded
shopping mall and a genetically enhanced super-monkey, but that one is
still in the planning stages....

I tend to base a lot of 25mm/28mm scale scenarios around two characters:
Professor Von Plütdevice and his adorable little daughter Karla.  Both
of
them have an irritating tendency to wander off alone into dangerous
territory; the Professor because he's an absent-minded super-genius, and
Karla because she's an obnoxious brat.

Scenarios have involved teams of various and sundry agents (hillbillies,
Grey Aliens, Marines, a S.W.A.T. team) sent to recover the Professor
from a
town full of zombies -- the product of one of the Professor's
experiments
in tissue regeneration -- and my orignal FMA playtest scenario, which
had
four teams chasing a giggling Karla around the board.  Woe betide the
folks
who actually caught her; the kid bites.  And kicks...with remarkable,
and
unfortunate, aim.

The figure that I use for Karla is actually a RAFM modern vampire,
although
she just looks like a 6 year old girl with a teddy bear.  I've also used
this same miniature in an Alien game, in which I stole the "blip"
concept
from Space Hulk.  Motion trackers told the players that *something* was
coming towards them, but they didn't know what until they had LOS. 
Usually
it was an Alien, but once it was a cat (which they promptly shot) and
once
it was Karla...who they let live.

Until the Chestburster popped out of her.

Generally, I prefer scenarios with a humorous edge to them; I can't take
my
gaming all that seriously.  Not with *my* dice rolls, at least.  Hence
my
fondness for the late, lamented ShockForce....	I intend to get some
more
Copplestone and Foundry modern/near-future figures painted up, and start
running some X-Files style games in the near future.  Probably more
tabloid
news than X-Files, really...but the principle is the same!

I've got some nice Greys painted up, and some Serpent Men/Reptoids, but
I
need to paint up a few Sasquatches (Sasquatchi?), and I *really* need to
find me some Chupacabra miniatures.  Anyone know of a good source for
some?

But most importantly, I have Elvis.  With a gun.

John Crimmins
johncrim@voicenet.com
http://www.voicenet.com/~johncrim