RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 20, 2011 at 8:42 pm
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2011 at 8:43 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
Okay - I ran my Christmas Special D20 modern game and this is what happened:
President Truman summoned four worldly heroes from around the globe based on intelligence that Santa had been kidnapped by the Devil.
In their desperation to win the war even though Germany had been defeated, the Japanese summoned the Christian Devil, who kidnapped Santa Claus and held him hostage in the Devil Fortress in the city. To this end, the Battle Pope was flown in from Italy, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt resurrected himself from the dead, Al Capone was temporarily released from Prison and was put on medication to give him some sanity, and Splendiferious, God of Rock and Roll, temporarily left his tutilage of the young Elvis Presley in order to team up and rescue Santa before THE BOMB is dropped.
The four were put on a plane, refueled in Hawaii, and flew then directly to Nagasaki over Enemy airspace. However, they encountered the flying pirate airship of Davy Jones' corpse. Because the cannons were backed by devil magic, the plane couldn't simply fly around it, so the four landed on the ship and prepared to fight. They swiftly beat the pirates, sent Davy Jones' corpse into his own locker, and blew up the ship mid-air. They didn't look back at the explosion as they flew away.
When they arrived to the Devil Fortress (they parachuted in), the devil sent in his devil-ninjas and battled the group Adam West Batman style. The devil knew he was beat, so he teleported to the basement, where he waited for them on a platform over a lava pit.
When they arrived, the devil said they could have Santa back if they beat him at a challenge or contest of any kind - however, each person only gets one challenge. Al Capone challenged him to a target practice contest, shooting at a target that would get ever farther away. The devil won that contest.
The, Roosevelt challenged the devil to fisticuffs and eventually knocked the devil out cold. They won Santa back that day and the Devil returned to Hell.
However, not until they returned to the fortress' main room did they realize that the Devil had cursed Santa with lycanthropy. When they entered the main room, a projector displayed the Devil's message and then showed a picture of the moon, completing Santa's transformation into werewolf santa. After a tough battle, Santa was defeated and the projector was destroyed, allowing Santa to revert to his normal state.
Afterword, they boarded their plane and quickly took to the skies as the Anola Gay dropped the bomb. They didn't look back at the explosion.
That was a wonderful game. I wanted to fit in a giant mecha battle against godzilla in there somewhere (a converted American coal-powered battleship would be the mecha) as well as a battle against a giant tentacle monster (it IS japan, after all) but I didn't have time or the necessary stats.
Anyway - just thought I'd share that with everyone.
President Truman summoned four worldly heroes from around the globe based on intelligence that Santa had been kidnapped by the Devil.
In their desperation to win the war even though Germany had been defeated, the Japanese summoned the Christian Devil, who kidnapped Santa Claus and held him hostage in the Devil Fortress in the city. To this end, the Battle Pope was flown in from Italy, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt resurrected himself from the dead, Al Capone was temporarily released from Prison and was put on medication to give him some sanity, and Splendiferious, God of Rock and Roll, temporarily left his tutilage of the young Elvis Presley in order to team up and rescue Santa before THE BOMB is dropped.
The four were put on a plane, refueled in Hawaii, and flew then directly to Nagasaki over Enemy airspace. However, they encountered the flying pirate airship of Davy Jones' corpse. Because the cannons were backed by devil magic, the plane couldn't simply fly around it, so the four landed on the ship and prepared to fight. They swiftly beat the pirates, sent Davy Jones' corpse into his own locker, and blew up the ship mid-air. They didn't look back at the explosion as they flew away.
When they arrived to the Devil Fortress (they parachuted in), the devil sent in his devil-ninjas and battled the group Adam West Batman style. The devil knew he was beat, so he teleported to the basement, where he waited for them on a platform over a lava pit.
When they arrived, the devil said they could have Santa back if they beat him at a challenge or contest of any kind - however, each person only gets one challenge. Al Capone challenged him to a target practice contest, shooting at a target that would get ever farther away. The devil won that contest.
The, Roosevelt challenged the devil to fisticuffs and eventually knocked the devil out cold. They won Santa back that day and the Devil returned to Hell.
However, not until they returned to the fortress' main room did they realize that the Devil had cursed Santa with lycanthropy. When they entered the main room, a projector displayed the Devil's message and then showed a picture of the moon, completing Santa's transformation into werewolf santa. After a tough battle, Santa was defeated and the projector was destroyed, allowing Santa to revert to his normal state.
Afterword, they boarded their plane and quickly took to the skies as the Anola Gay dropped the bomb. They didn't look back at the explosion.
That was a wonderful game. I wanted to fit in a giant mecha battle against godzilla in there somewhere (a converted American coal-powered battleship would be the mecha) as well as a battle against a giant tentacle monster (it IS japan, after all) but I didn't have time or the necessary stats.
Anyway - just thought I'd share that with everyone.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
