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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 5285 Location: On High Joined: Apr 20^th, 2009 Gender:	Crossovers? Aug 16^th, 2011 at 3:52pm	Print Post
	OK, I'm not sure why this popped into my head, but have any of you ever considered doing a "crossover" to another campaign, where your characters would make a "guest appearance" in another gaming group?

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The Cougar Avenger Offline Roll 1d20 against ... Posts: 438 Location: McKinney, TX Joined: Oct 4^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #1 - Aug 16^th, 2011 at 4:46pm	Print Post
	I have built this in as a feature in my Megalopolis PBEM game. Currently none of the crossovers have talked yet but they have been in the same battles but from different perspectives. Check out Quest issues 8 to 13 and Archer issues 8 to 11. Currently the Street Patrol characters and Crusade characters are mixing in the same storyline. Will they meet is up to the players.
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Hawk Avenger Offline Posts: 493 Joined: Sep 14^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #2 - Aug 16^th, 2011 at 9:15pm	Print Post
	The Cougar wrote on Aug 16^th, 2011 at 4:46pm: Currently the Street Patrol characters and Crusade characters are mixing in the same storyline.Will they meet is up to the players. I vote yes.


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Majestic Justice Leaguer Offline Guardian of Earth Posts: 5179 Location: Seattle Joined: Jun 8^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #3 - Aug 17^th, 2011 at 12:52pm	Print Post
	Mostly I've had characters (from other campaigns) "cross over" into our Guardians campaign. But we've also crossed over characters from a different campaign we used to play in (Ravensgate; which is a much more grim n' gritty world)into the Guardians campaign. One creative way this was done was to have the characters in the Guardians universe magically come to life (the Guardians are a famous comic book in the Ravensgate U); vice versa for the Ravensgate characters (The Foundry, the superheroes in the Ravensgate world, star in a well known comic in the Guardians U).


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John Galactus Offline The Master Cylinder Posts: 6693 Location: Selden Joined: Apr 11^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #4 - Aug 17^th, 2011 at 5:12pm	Print Post
	If anyone wants to invite six or so guys over to their house for the weekend, I am sure we would all be up for it!

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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 5285 Location: On High Joined: Apr 20^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #5 - Aug 17^th, 2011 at 6:57pm	Print Post
	John wrote on Aug 17^th, 2011 at 5:12pm: If anyone wants to invite six or so guys over to their house for the weekend, I am sure we would all be up for it! Well if you guys want to drive to VA, next Summer, I've got one spare bedroom, for you and the wife (it's got TV, Cable, DVD player, and Wi Fi), but the rest of the guys have to sleep on couches, I can accommodate you for a weekend of gaming (I'll even cover the cost of food). Plus my GF is from Brooklyn, so she'll be happy to have someone who knows what the hell she's talking about when she starts naming streets and subway routes. Plus I'm 10 minutes from Bush Gardens/Water Country USA (and I can get discount tickets), 15 minutes from Colonial Williamsburg, 20 minutes from York Town & James town, and 45-50 minutes from the Virginia Beach ocean front.
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THE ONI Galactus Offline I Roll Too Many 20's Posts: 2696 Location: Long Island, New York Joined: Apr 19^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #6 - Aug 17^th, 2011 at 8:19pm	Print Post
	I wish I would have known that last September.


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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 5285 Location: On High Joined: Apr 20^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #7 - Aug 17^th, 2011 at 9:55pm	Print Post
	THE ONI wrote on Aug 17^th, 2011 at 8:19pm: I wish I would have known that last September. Why's that, were you in teh Norfolk/Virginia Beach area?

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John Galactus Offline The Master Cylinder Posts: 6693 Location: Selden Joined: Apr 11^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #8 - Aug 17^th, 2011 at 10:30pm	Print Post
	I May take you up on that. I for some reason, thought you were up in Toronto. And the reverse is also offered. If you want to come to NY, give a holler.

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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 5285 Location: On High Joined: Apr 20^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #9 - Aug 17^th, 2011 at 11:28pm	Print Post
	John wrote on Aug 17^th, 2011 at 10:30pm: I May take you up on that. I for some reason, thought you were up in Toronto. And the reverse is also offered. If you want to come to NY, give a holler. We'll see when I get back from Iraq, as my GF would like to see her relatives, for a few days.

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THE ONI Galactus Offline I Roll Too Many 20's Posts: 2696 Location: Long Island, New York Joined: Apr 19^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #10 - Aug 18^th, 2011 at 7:48pm	Print Post
	dsumner wrote on Aug 17^th, 2011 at 9:55pm: THE ONI wrote on Aug 17^th, 2011 at 8:19pm: I wish I would have known that last September. Why's that, were you in teh Norfolk/Virginia Beach area? Close to Williamsburg for a few days. I'll take you up on it next time.


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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 5285 Location: On High Joined: Apr 20^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #11 - Aug 18^th, 2011 at 9:13pm	Print Post
	THE ONI wrote on Aug 18^th, 2011 at 7:48pm: dsumner wrote on Aug 17^th, 2011 at 9:55pm: THE ONI wrote on Aug 17^th, 2011 at 8:19pm: I wish I would have known that last September. Why's that, were you in teh Norfolk/Virginia Beach area? Close to Williamsburg for a few days. I'll take you up on it next time. I'm 11 miles from Williamsburg, just insidethe Newport News city limits.

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AlabasterKnight Justice Leaguer Offline Heroing since 1979. Posts: 1142 Location: Phoenix, AZ Joined: Jun 21^st, 2010 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #12 - Aug 19^th, 2011 at 10:32am	Print Post
	Our group, which had been defunct for a while now is beginning to gravitate and swirl into a planned campaign where we are going to 'restart' our continuity. Two of my players passed away last year, so parts of the campaign will reflect that and use the same change for their characters (the surviving members of that group agreed that it would be cool to honor them with plotted endings). Four players will be reprising their characters, but starting at 2nd level (in story they're coming out of 'retirement', after the last group disbanded they went on to different things, one of them was incarcerated, two took normal jobs/life situations, the other was visiting the Pentacles Plot dimension - though I haven't specifically told the player that...) The catalyst is a player moving back to Phx from Oregon; he'll be playing a new character along with a mutual friend who also moved back to Phx after getting his PhD in Biosciences (Interestingly he is going to play a Hank Pym type character; color me excited for that!) Then there are two more players who are starting fresh... (that's 8... and I have two more knocking, but I'm not as young as I used to be...) All in all, once it gets going - which is a logistic nightmare in the planning stage - I'll post updates and details - we plan on playing through the adventures with some homebrew in between and testing of some products. Point here, I would love if any of you were in Phoenix to sit in when we're live and rolling dice. Phoenix has everything you could want about six months out of the year (late fall/winter/early spring)... The other six months, it's all still here, but it's so hot, you can only enjoy it ten minutes at a time.
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Majestic Justice Leaguer Offline Guardian of Earth Posts: 5179 Location: Seattle Joined: Jun 8^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #13 - Aug 19^th, 2011 at 4:03pm	Print Post
	So sorry to hear about your two former players passing away, AK. That's neat that you're honoring them like you are. Having run a large group like that, I can offer a few pieces of advice: 1) Just go ahead and play, even when everybody can't make it. My group's about that big normally, but tomorrow we might only have 3-4 players, and I'm really looking forward to it (as things can move much swifter with that number). 2) Consider getting a few of the players to 'help' in some way. I often appoint one player as the "Knockback Guy" (he simply always looks up the amount of knockback players get per the rules included in Super-Crooks); this saves me lots of time thumbing through rulebooks. One could even chart or keep track of initiative, if one was so inclined (though I've never done that one). This keeps the chosen player much more tied in to the action. 3) Consider giving one or two of the players the opportunity to play a villain. You could even rotate this function. Giving a well-described villain to a veteran role-player can be a lot of fun for everyone. That player gets to "let loose" for a session, and it's far easier and smoother to run a 5 vs. 5 combat than it is to do 8 vs. 8. When the GM is running 5 (or more) villains, it's tough to do them all justice, but other players can end up really bringing them to life. You can't do this all the time (if you did you'd want to rotate the players who played villains), but it can provide a welcome change of pace occasionally. Best of luck with the campaign!


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AlabasterKnight Justice Leaguer Offline Heroing since 1979. Posts: 1142 Location: Phoenix, AZ Joined: Jun 21^st, 2010 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #14 - Aug 20^th, 2011 at 12:20am	Print Post
	One of the two guys who passed was our Tony Stark/Iron Man archtype; IRL he had MD, and we decided that his character basically succumbed to an aggressive incurable cancer, having just prior to his demise did some interesting things with his remaining assets and tech. He arranged for the one character to be released from prison and instigated the team reassembling... The other friend really died of cancer, but in game we're saying he was lasting seen pushing/pursuing a demon host into a portal which then imploded, which is now a plot driver for cosmic magical thing we'll do much later... My biggest group was 15, with a regular 10-12 for about a year and a half... but I prefer 6-8. I like your ideas for smoothing and changing things up; definitely things we wouldn't have done twenty years ago, but I can see them being fun now. Thanks.

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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 5285 Location: On High Joined: Apr 20^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #15 - Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 1:20pm	Print Post
	AK, once this gets rolling, do you plan to keep up updated on the game?

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AlabasterKnight Justice Leaguer Offline Heroing since 1979. Posts: 1142 Location: Phoenix, AZ Joined: Jun 21^st, 2010 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #16 - Aug 25^th, 2011 at 10:29pm	Print Post
	Yes, I hope to create a bulletpoint journal of game minutes so that I can post game results.

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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 5285 Location: On High Joined: Apr 20^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #17 - Aug 26^th, 2011 at 8:51am	Print Post
	AlabasterKnight wrote on Aug 25^th, 2011 at 10:29pm: Yes, I hope to create a bulletpoint journal of game minutes so that I can post game results. Plus we'd all love to see the character sheets as well.

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Ranger Justice Leaguer Offline Also known as Dracos! Posts: 1543 Location: East Indiana Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #18 - Aug 26^th, 2011 at 5:59pm	Print Post
	Hawk wrote on Aug 16^th, 2011 at 9:15pm: The Cougar wrote on Aug 16^th, 2011 at 4:46pm: Currently the Street Patrol characters and Crusade characters are mixing in the same storyline.Will they meet is up to the players. I vote yes. Look to your left. You'll see motorcycles parts all over the road, and if you can spare the time you just might see . . .
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Ranger Justice Leaguer Offline Also known as Dracos! Posts: 1543 Location: East Indiana Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #19 - Aug 26^th, 2011 at 6:01pm	Print Post
	OH! . . . and I think some PBeM Crossover between Megalopolis, Vanguard, and Empire City might just be in order dammit. Plus Dom still owes us some interviews of the excellent GMs running these campaigns

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Display Name Justice Leaguer Offline I Love V&V! Posts: 1851 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #20 - Aug 26^th, 2011 at 6:50pm	Print Post
	Ranger wrote on Aug 26^th, 2011 at 6:01pm: Plus Dom still owes us some interviews of the excellent GMs running these campaigns Hear, hear! Plus, he needs to post them all in one location (the Yahoo! group)!


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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 5285 Location: On High Joined: Apr 20^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #21 - Aug 26^th, 2011 at 8:59pm	Print Post
	Ranger wrote on Aug 26^th, 2011 at 6:01pm: Plus Dom still owes us some interviews of the excellent GMs running these campaigns Yeah, I've been slacking.

	"There is no such things as a dangerous weapon, only dangerous men." "Nemo me impune lacessit"
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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 5285 Location: On High Joined: Apr 20^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #22 - Sep 1^st, 2011 at 8:55pm	Print Post
	AK, any update on how the prep work for your game is going?

	"There is no such things as a dangerous weapon, only dangerous men." "Nemo me impune lacessit"
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AlabasterKnight Justice Leaguer Offline Heroing since 1979. Posts: 1142 Location: Phoenix, AZ Joined: Jun 21^st, 2010 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #23 - Sep 1^st, 2011 at 9:33pm	Print Post
	Slow moving; we have most of the characters fleshed out, but the players all want to wait and start together, so I'm waiting for a friend from Kelso/Longview/Clatskanie to transfer down here to begin it.

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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 5285 Location: On High Joined: Apr 20^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Crossovers? Reply #24 - Sep 1^st, 2011 at 9:40pm	Print Post
	AlabasterKnight wrote on Sep 1^st, 2011 at 9:33pm: Slow moving; we have most of the characters fleshed out, but the players all want to wait and start together, so I'm waiting for a friend from Kelso/Longview/Clatskanie to transfer down here to begin it. How many characters are you expecting total?

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