Re: GM in need of ideas.

From: "neo" <david@dlsharrock.freeserve.co.uk>

Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:21:10 +0000

<swimminschrage@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:94ffen$vi3$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> I've been GMing for about a year and have been working on a new fantasy
> game that is in the making as I type this. I've been trying to think of
> a cool way to get the game going instead of the usual..."You are all
> transported to this world and must kill the evil king in order to get
> home" trash.
>
> Therefore if anybody has any cool ideas of how to start off please post
> them here.snip

i recently watched a film called Cube and thought at the time what a cool
pbm/pbem or rpg it would make. If you haven't seen it these five or six
people who have never met suddenly wake up one day in this cramped hi-tech
looking room. The room is empty and there's one door in every wall including
the floor and ceiling. Each door is numbered with three 3 digit codes.
That's the start up for the whole thing which is obviously pretty confusing
for the people in the room.

They find out that beyond each door is an identical square room with
identical 6 doors but each door has three different 3 digit numbers. Some
rooms are trapped with gruesome fatal traps and some are safe. Nobody knows
why they are there but its pretty obvious they're in some kind of human
experimental maze or something. It turns out the numbers are x-y-z
co-ordinates showing the next room's position in this huge cube made up of
thousands of rooms and only the prime numbered rooms are safe, all others
are booby trapped. The characters in the film all play a pivotal role in
solving the puzzles. There's the maths genius, for solving the prime numbers
puzzle, an autistic guy for acting like a human calculator, the woman who
keeps them all together and the psychopath who drives them on to work out
the puzzles. The twist in the story is that all the rooms are constantly
moving around and the only way out is via a bridge room which links the
inner cube with the outer wall. The bridge is also always moving around.

Dave

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GM in need of ideas.
swimminschrage@hotmail.com
Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:05:47 +0000

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GM in need of ideas.
swimminschrage@hotmail.com
Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:05:47 +0000