(TFT) Campaign Idea

[Joey Beutel <mejobo@comcast.net>]

Hey guys, had an idea for a campaign:

its... 'sort-of' dark ages England... but think of it more like a  
fusion of King Arthur and Welsh mythology and more modern fantasy  
ideas (elves and dwarves and such.... though with those being heavily  
influenced by the Fay of myth). But none of that Arthur stuff has  
happened yet. Think of it more like.... a fantasy alternate history  
that could've inspired those myths, and with a slightly anachronistic  
spin to it all.

Now make it that (at the beginning) the characters are sort of lowly  
leaders of small bands of warriors... possibly in the same band. Not  
necessarily warriors, just adventurers, basically. But the game takes  
place over many years, so goes through multiple generations, with the  
characters (obviously) trying to gain power and influence (with the  
objective being that they each kinda gain their own dynasty to rule a  
small kingdom with). They'd continue to participate in regular  
adventures (plenty of room for a king to go off and fight some  
monsters... think Beowulf!), but intrigue would also start being  
important, as the kingdoms end up in competition, and possibly war.  
From there, you basically got a small little wargame with mixed in  
RPG elements (to replace the wargame mechanics that represent duels  
and diplomacy) and the occasional dungeon crawling (where the  
characters are more likely to collaborate).

However, the main 'oomph' of the campaign would be in the overarching  
'plot,' where the fantasy realms are infringing on, colonizing the  
real world. There are the bad guys in this (evil elves, orcs, trolls,  
whatever) who are basically invading the 'normal' (still has magic,  
and i'm thinking maybe dwarves and some other fantasy elements would  
be part of the regular world apart from the encroaching fantasy  
realms) world, while you also have the more neutral but strange and  
aloof elves (who can perhaps be allied with), and perhaps even a  
'good' side as well that is helping the normal world...

Anyway, the  players would have to balance their own little kingdom's  
quest for power with the need to fight off the invaders (I'm thinking  
of adding some 'empire from across the sea' to be a sort of Roman  
Empire-like invader as well... or possibly even the Normans, if you  
date it as being more medieval than ancient), which would include much  
more of the traditional 'RPG quest' elements, though on a bit of a  
larger scale... not unlike a Lord of the Rings sort of situation.

Also, I'd be using Chain Reaction 3 Swordplay (by Two Hour Wargames...  
its free on the site for that company, you should probably take a look  
at it) to do the larger scale combats, with TFT being used for PCs and  
smaller scale combat (large scale here still wouldn't be that large,  
with small scale meaning a dozen participants being around maximum).  
You could probably even use the two simultaneously... I'm working on  
the conversions now to allow that.

So.... thoughts? anyone ever do anything similar? just a stupid idea i  
came up with in my (flu induced) idiocy that should never see the  
light of day? Any suggestions on how to run this?
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