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#1 leliel Sep 26, 2008 15:04:22	Well, I just got a strange urge for a campaign where the PCs are dimension-traveling agents with a mission-Destroy all iterations of that bane of fiction, Mary Sue. Naturally, this is an impossible task, but that's not the entire mission of the PCs-just destroying the Sues who are so bad, that they threaten the fabric of Fiction-land, and at epic levels, the banishment of some of the authors who create them to another dimension. So, workable but wacky idea, or not?
#2 axterix Sep 26, 2008 15:12:26	Party would need a DMPC as the most powerful member of the party and whose personality mirrors the DMs
#3 leliel Sep 26, 2008 15:20:46	Who they would kill as part of their tutorial.
#4 awesome_dude Sep 26, 2008 15:25:40	I once played in a Mary Sue campaign in GURPS (the PCs were more awesome versions of their real-world selves). It was wild. Especially when a PC died and everybody found out he didn't really die or was reborn or something. That never got old.
#5 axterix Sep 26, 2008 15:27:22	It could make for an interesting campaign, especially if you can introduce some moral issues into it. The Mary Sue is benevolent, the best ruler ever. If you kill it, chaos will reign and the world goes bye-bye. What do you do? Do you leave it? Do you try and set up someone to be ready to take over to avoid the chaos? Or do you kill it and let chaos reign?
#6 lemonfrosted_dup Sep 26, 2008 16:06:49	It could make for an interesting campaign, especially if you can introduce some moral issues into it. The Mary Sue is benevolent, the best ruler ever. If you kill it, chaos will reign and the world goes bye-bye. What do you do? Do you leave it? Do you try and set up someone to be ready to take over to avoid the chaos? Or do you kill it and let chaos reign? Kill it, then kill the new overlord who's guarenteed to be a Sephiroth clone.
#7 axterix Sep 26, 2008 16:15:05	You could also play it partially like Quantum Leap. Drop them into situations and they've got to figure out where they are at, and, if they fail to figure it out, some support from Al.
#8 the_ubbergeek Sep 26, 2008 16:54:56	Haters are as bad as fanboys. I hate that kind of premise, lame and reek of juvenile 'take that!'.
#9 exposed_wires Sep 26, 2008 17:05:14	I think it could be fun if you keep it light-hearted. Take your inspiration from deviantart.
#10 Seeker95 Sep 26, 2008 17:39:12	Two things: What is this Mary-Sue of which you speak? (I assume there is some kind of tropism involved, but am willing to confess I am completely ignorant in this matter.) Are you ever going to actually try one of these not-D&D D&D campaigns you keep mentioning?
#11 bruceski Sep 26, 2008 17:47:42	Two things: What is this Mary-Sue of which you speak? (I assume there is some kind of tropism involved, but am willing to confess I am completely ignorant in this matter.) Are you ever going to actually try one of these not-D&D D&D campaigns you keep mentioning? A Mary-Sue is a self insert into a work of fiction. Generally refers to the extreme version: self-insert only better. For example, a Harry Potter fanfic in which a new student shows up with high mastery of magic, and who immediately is pursued by Harry Draco and Snape. Male version is the Gary Stu.
#12 exposed_wires Sep 26, 2008 18:01:08	http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySue
#13 darknesseternal Sep 26, 2008 23:22:28	Who they would kill as part of their tutorial. Drizzt Do'Urden. Seriously. Like 5 times.
#14 awesome_dude Sep 26, 2008 23:33:32	http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySue JOKE'S ON YOU YOU DIDN'T HIDE THE LINK DID NOT CLICK DID NOT CLICK
#15 corncob Sep 27, 2008 0:38:59	You do realize your concept amounts to trolling imaginary people, right?
#16 Darth_Caffeineus Sep 27, 2008 7:02:04	Can I play in your game the session the party visits the Forgotten Realms?
#17 mr_teapot Sep 27, 2008 9:03:18	Finnally, a use for the Forgotten Realms setting.
#18 the_ubbergeek Sep 27, 2008 14:14:25