Legacy of Fire as a 1920-1940's ish pulp style campaign (non d20 also)

[Stewart Perkins]

So as the thread states, I was considering this as a future project and wanted to get some ideas and feedback. I was thinking a different system (Savage Worlds and Cine Uni come to mind) but that isn't what I want to discuss (yet). I was looking at ways to keep the majority of the story and ideas in tact but play it more pulp 20s-40s and all that. Ideas?

[Akumamajin]

Great idea I must say. I did something similar with the 'Curse of the Crimson Throne'-AP, porting it to the Legend of the 5 Rings Setting. It was a fun and a blast :)

Hmm what do you thing of the Call of Cthulhu RPG, by the way? In my LoF campaign I heavily upped the involvement of Rovaguk and turned the thing much darker with a destinct lovecraftian twist.

That aside, lets focus on your question. I would make the thing an expedition, be it egypt or marocco or arabia. Almah is no tradeprincess but an archeologist or antropomorphologist that wants to do some excavation in the city of Kelmerane (change name to something different). There you stumble upon some resistance that could range from sinister cults to drug bosses and finde the sinister ruined temple with the deamon in its crypt.

While happy excavating you get assaulted by other nomads/cultists that seem to belong to this place and the lady gets abducted. Your team fallows the culprits to the house of the beasts and rescue her in the nick of time before she is sacrificed.

While in the house of the beast, another ruined temple, you stumble about the lower levels and finde the map of Kakishon. You take it back with you to London until one evening your professor invites you to discuss something amazing.

Your professor has done some extensive studding of the scroll and found out, that certain parts light up when you touch them, simply amazing! While playing with it you get assaulted by assassins, the original hashashin ones. Maybe the map gets stolen or the professor killed ... you somehow fight some more assassins and somehow get your finger on another scroll that tells how to activate it ... or maybe the master assassin does it while dying.

At least everyone gets sucked into Kakishon, while they see the Efrit Army escaping. After getting out of Kakishon you return to London to find it devastated, but the main army seems to have escaped to arabia/egypt/marocco again. Your time in Kakishon filled up many of the main plot, that the ancient Efrit wanted to raise a mighty beast of legends to conquer the world, but got sealed in the map by some vizir at the nick of time ... now he is back and you are the only one knowing where is hideout is. So big standoff in the house of the beast again.

Voilla, this is just a quick draft, but something that we can work with and to get discussion started :)

[Stewart Perkins]

Akumamajin wrote:

Good Stuff

Interesteing Ideas. I will think on them and respond later. :P

[Akumamajin]

A small addition: the dschins of the islamic traditions, from which efreets are the ones with the most destructive urges, are originally invisible, living in something like the etherial plane, but can see and interact with our world quite easy, what makes it dangerous to seek contact with them.

Under this premis the arrival of the efreeti army in London would cause untold damage and havoc, but most people wouldn't see or know the cause. The PCs, touched be the magic of the scroll of Kakishon, would literal be the only people capable to see the truth. This would explain, why no army would be massed against the house of the beast and put the PCs in the roll to save the world as no other could possible do it.

[Stewart Perkins]

Akumamajin wrote:

A small addition: the dschins of the islamic traditions, from which efreets are the ones with the most destructive urges, are originally invisible, living in something like the etherial plane, but can see and interact with our world quite easy, what makes it dangerous to seek contact with them.

Under this premis the arrival of the efreeti army in London would cause untold damage and havoc, but most people wouldn't see or know the cause. The PCs, touched be the magic of the scroll of Kakishon, would literal be the only people capable to see the truth. This would explain, why no army would be massed against the house of the beast and put the PCs in the roll to save the world as no other could possible do it.

Hmm nice addition to consider