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Arminel 11-05-07, 02:07 PM

Thinking about running a campaign using the storyline of Max Payne as a basis. Your world is thrown into chaos from the American Dream, the reality of life hitting you harder than the sounds of your own damnation. Your only people who know you're not guilty keep dying around you. You keep tallying your head count, but things aren't getting better, but worse. The technology jump from modern day to the D&D equivalent shouldn't be difficult, just a few house rules here and extra spells should do the trick. Technology would likely not include firearms but perhaps early explosives, and instead of "bullet-time" they have each other. PCs would be playing a bunch of rogue-typed, jack-of-all-trades-typed, or "darker" characters. Classes that come to mind are Rogues, Beguilers, Rangers (particularly the Urban Ranger), Scouts, Thug-variant Fighters, Factotums, Warlocks, Swashbucklers (less flashy, more Edmund Dantes post-imprisonment), Hexblades, Bards, and Ninjas all come to mind, though Ninjas I might nix for flavor-sake. Monks might work, but that would take a bit of work (in my estimation). Paladin might work, but with a "enforcing the law by whatever means" type of attitude. Druids would use the Druidic Avenger or the "swift and deadly hunter" variant from UA (pg58). Marshals could be a good choice as an enforcer of the law, but I'd probably modify it a bit, and it might replace Paladin. The standard D&D pantheon would work, but they are uncaring for the most part and stay out of the picture. The world itself would mostly be like a New York City (or Noir York City if you will) so mostly an urban game where the characters will have multiple encounters of varying types, and generally little time to sleep. I might house-rule something for spellcasters being allowed a concentration check to regain some spellcasting without the standard 8 hours of rest, with increasingly difficult DCs as they don't get enough rest. I would also need to develop Valkyr as a drug, of which I have no experience in the D&D sense, perhaps looking through the BoVD would help. This is mostly an emerging idea I'm having, elaborating as I type and glance through books. Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? This would be be a first for me, but I'm already enjoying the idea. Nobody else among those I play with has played the Max Payne series, making this even more enjoyable.