Re: (TFT) New Campaign

["Ty Beard" <tybeard@sbcglobal.net>]

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From: "Scott Haley" <someotherwag@earthlink.net>
To: <tft@brainiac.com>


> Since this is the product of the Mnoren, or some other weird,  
> inexplicable culture, you should have some of the products be rather  
> bizarre.

Good point.

> Imagine if one of these machines was stocked with cans of Coke, the  
> only source of it in of your fantasy world.  A wealthy patron with a  
> sweet tooth might send teams to try to make it to level 10 and bring  
> his favorite beverage back.  They'd be like those slaves who ran down  
> from the mountains with snow so that Roman nobles could make  
> slurpees.  Player characters might be hired to do this.  Imagine a  
> dungeon with no coins, gems, or small valuable items left in it, full  
> of caffeine junkie monsters intent on mugging the adventurers.  The  
> empty cans might be more valuable than platinum, since aluminum is an  
> extremely rare metal in most fantasy worlds.  The costliest jewelry  
> would be made out of old pop cans.
>
> Here's a cruel trick: have the players find a coin covered with  
> writing they can't read, or an unusual gemstone that they can't  
> identify.  If someone puts it into a TOMS machine, the readout goes  
> up...and up...and up...  They just threw away something that's worth  
> millions!  There is no coin return, but they can have a really big  
> pile of overpriced supplies...
>
> --Scott Haley

Awww, now that is *cold*.

I love it.

--Ty
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