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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Personally I've never been all that keen on Bears Den. Don't really know why, perhaps it's because it's basically a stand alone and appears difficult to include in an ongoing campaign - how do you get the PCs from Warsaw to the Ukraine for example when you've got Omega happening a few months before, and the closest Nato unit is up in the Baltic (US 8th ID). Sure you could run a group of Pact soldiers with perhaps a Nato pilot or POWs, but...
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I just love the sandbox-setting of T2k ; the option to do many different campaigns-settings/one-shot-scenarios in the world of T2k.
The authors (and fans!) provided a lot of different stuff to do just that. Your right - not all of it will fit into on ongoing campaign.
But there are so many different angels to show to your players the developments in the aftermath of a third world war... thats the most amazing thing to me.
I loved that (a huge, well developed background with many colourfull regions) about "Traveller" too. To follow a certain group of characters for a while - stop - and to create another one somewhere else in a different part of the world. Because the gamesetting has so many facettes... With all new options, locations, enemys and friends.
To me the trick is to end a campaign right after its peak - as long as the players want to do more with those characters (but had enough time to accomplish quite something within that setting).
And somewhere in the future, my players will have an adventure in the ukraine,too! After "Bears Den" the pc´s might stumble over a few inspirations from "stalker"... ?! Yeah, maybe