Silly One-Shot Campaign Ideas

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>>46165582

The party is a group of average teenage summer camp counselors.
An ax murderer is on the loose.

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I've always wanted to run a Hitchhikers game for a few sessions. The old radio series/tv series, not the film. Doesn't require a lot of prep for it either, just a basic outline etc and a good ability to think on the fly.

Closest I got was playing with a master GM who is part of my RPG community. He's an old guy but he ran Paranoia perfectly, it felt very BBC Sci-Fi.

>>46167685
I ran a game kind of like that where we ran DCC with every player getting a block of 20 1-hit wonder serfs. There's a pissed off revenant wandering around their village who's venting his fury on the villagers because he can't get in the castle.

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I'm shamelessly (and no doubt artlessly) stealing this from another Anon on /tg/ some time back, but I loved the idea so much that I've kept it. I plan to run it at some point. The pitch went something like this:

>"You look down at the appetizer and realize that your bloomin' onion is made of fingers. No one else seems to notice."

And that kicks off an Unknown Armies one-shot in which the players unexpectedly become initiated into the occult underground by way of shutting down Outback's designs to complete a terrible ritual involving no small amount of human sacrifice. This takes place in Phoenix, Arizona, in the midst of five curiously-positioned Steakhouses (they're really there if you Google maps it).

Pic related.

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What happens in the grotto stays in the grotto... your party learns the dark secret behind (and underneath) the Hef's infamous pool.

>>46165582
>One-Shot Campaign
Learn the damn lingo already or lurk the fuck moar!

>>46172878
I could do that, or I could talk to people and learn about cool things I want to learn about instead of worrying about jargon.

An ancient evil has awoken.

>>46167565
How would run a tabletop session like that? Do you just have a metronome ticking away and force everyone to rap their actions?

>>46165582
Ninjas have kidnapped the fiancee of one of the characters right after she accepted his proposal.
He gathered a small group of his friends to get her back.
Are you and your pals bad enough to get into the clan's stronghold and kick ninja ass?
She's secretly a ninja herself, and must marry another ninja as per tradition. However, being a bad enough motherfucker to get to her will earn the blessing of the clan.

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>>46172878

>>46171335
Shit and here I thought nothing occult happens in my hometown.

Personally I wanted to see about doing a Starship Troopers style one shot but seeing about having it snowball into a campaign.