[UA] My Campaign Is Coming Together

[stuartanderson at uswest.net]

Trent Redfield wrote:

> Well, the plans for my campaign are coming together.
>
> Here's what I have so far.
>
> The campaign will take place in New Orleans, which according to a couple of
> websites is the "Most Haunted City in America".  The PCs will all be
> members of a street gang.
>
> Here is where it gets supernatural and becomes UA: The leader of the gang
> channels the Demagogue.  His right-hand man channels the Executioner.  So
> far the Executioner and one other character have been made.  The other
> character is an arson obsessed with fire and all of its aspects.  Hopefully
> someone elects to run an adept of sometime.
>
> I plan to run this campaign on two levels, both of them street-level
> reality.  One will be the day-to-day operations of the criminal
> organization, be they protection rackets, prostitution, heists, gun
> running, drug dealing, etc.  The second level will be the interaction with
> the occult underground of New Orleans.
>
> The Occult Underground of New Orleans I haven't had time to flesh out yet
> (that's a project for next week).  I know Voodoo will be a major player in
> this particular occult underground.  In fact, the most famous Voodoo Queen,
> Marie Laveau will have possessed some GMC and annihilated their soul, so
> she will be a major player in the OU.  Other than that, I haven't fleshed
> it out too much.  Any suggestions there?
>
> I'll keep the list updated as the campaign comes together.
>
> I will also post everyone's characters when they are all done, so you can
> see how the campaign is shaping up and give me a bunch of ideas.
>
> Feel free to comment on this post and toss back and forth ideas on this
> campaign concept and on New Orleans and the Occult Underground.
>
> - Trent Redfield

If you're interested, I have a system of magical effects, recurring New Orleans
characters, and random story elements which uses the New Orleans Voodoo Tarot.
Marie Laveau is one of the trumps in the deck. It's not set up for UA. The
characters are statted in a bastardized version of FUDGE, which would be easy
enough to tweak. It's the better part of a spiral notebook, so it'd be a lot to
post, but I'd be happy to share some ideas with you. I have several
intermittant campaigns which use this thing: Waukachita Nightshade Group--a
kinda standard occult investigation group HQed in a fictional Louisianna
parish, the Barataria Bombers--a 40s barnstorming baseball team that travels
around and gets in adventures and stuff, Andie Silk--a transgendered private
eye in NO that specializes in kinky cases, and Ozymandius--a blatant rip-off of
George RR Martin's novel, Fevre Dream, in which a vampire buys into a Mark
Twain era steamboat line. Heady stuff. Let me know what you might be interested
in.
--Stu.

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