Inspired by
Whomever1's recent PA Forum post on the subject, I decided to try rolling up a completely random scenario, using the tables in the
Pulp Alley rulebook. This is something we hadn't done in years, and never really did then, since there were results on the scenario table that we always avoided, like
Death Trap, nobody wishing their leader to start the game alone and surrounded by enemies. This time, however, I would simply let the dice take me where they would. To begin, I picked up a d6 and rolled on the scenario table:
4.
Death Trap. Well, this was easy enough to see coming. Thinking about it, though, I saw it was a good fit for my solo
Vice Alley campaign. In it, the
Bay City Cyclones had caned their rivals, the
America Forever Party, severely in their last two meetings, and Bo's league would be seething for some payback. The AFP would be the attackers, and the Player League, while the defending BCC would be the Bots. As a bonus, I would have the Vice Alley setting and all the back history of the campaign to use in divining the meanings of randomly generated plot points.
The scenario provided the Major Plot Point (Jack Murphy, the leader of the Cyclones), so I only needed to roll up four Minor Plot Points:
1.(encounter)
Missing Informant: A natural. A meetup with this guy would explain how Jack was caught alone in the first place.
2.(contraband)
Camouflaged Explosives: Hmm...could that Foreign Agent in the last scenario have let something slip about saboteurs?
3.(encounter)
Suspicious Guard: Another natural. He doesn't need a reason to be there, or to need dealing with...he's a guard, and he's suspicious. One More!
4.(treasure)
Cursed Disk: Huh. You know, there are so many scenarios where this would fit right in...just not this one. However, quite a few months back in this campaign, a shipment of valuable artifacts was hijacked on its way to the
Bay City Museum of History, and individual items from that shipment have been turning up from time to time. This must be another one, and the strange pictographs engraved on it could well be a map...to some future scenario where a cursed disk makes perfect sense.
Ready to rumble!
AAR Here: http://imgur.com/a/HWg23Thanks for your interest!
rags
13 December 2013, 09:54:12 PM