What kind of adventures did you play in T2k ?

[Tombot]

Only the modules ? Is it primarily focused on the T2k-typical military themes ?
Olefin said in another thread that he likes to play "a military RPG, not Mad Max", that made me wonder.

I actually started my interest in dystopian stuff through old Maxie.
Right now, i am totally stretched by using the first few modules, so i wont be writing anything myself (in terms of gaming).
But... if i would ever reach the point where i played through all of them, or just want to do something else with the setting...

There are so many themes, which i would like to try in T2k.
When i played a western-setting (Outlaw), i let my players do whatever they wanted in that setting. They could have been lawmen, bandidos, indian braves (depending on what year/place, there are major changes in their goals, off course), travelling merchants, and so on.
Just sticking with the battles of the civil war, would have been a bit narrow-minded.

Dont get me wrong here - if you just enjoy the military stuff, thats all good!
But my example about a wild west-setting (thus: playing civil-war soldiers all the time), maybe gets my point through, i hope.

So, please tell me, if you had different (i mean not militarily dominated) adventures in T2k! (Either player- or GM-wise)

PS: Ever had a "faction"-focused, instead of "character-group"-focused, campaign ?
I tried that with CarWars many years ago (several characters within the same faction for every player), and it was pretty cool. But our group went down the drain... Usual shite, y´know

[Olefin]

the campaign I played as a character was more of a military one - instead of just tryign to survive we were more out to kill as many Russians and Poles as we could

for instance we didnt start in the woods after having broken out - we started in the middle of the battle and had a bunch of NPC's with us who (along with one player character) got killed blasting the hole thru the Russian lines so we could get out

course it helped that I rolled a tank for the vehicle - taking on T-80's with a LAV-25 is no fun but an M1A1 is lots of fun - that is until you have to start making fuel for it

[Tombot]

Remember "Once upon a time in america" ?
One of those ideas (a non-military adventure-hook, so to speak) would be centered about a group of war-orphans, living in an occupied postwar-city.

Just change the setting of a "roaring 20´s"-america for the postnuclear germany/poland/(you fit in a place you prefer) and pave the way for a bunch of tough street-urchins. Their rise (and fall?) to a group of criminals.
Maybe they get enough prestige to receive prime-jobs from Gus Stanislavs men. Maybe they kill a greedy Ormo-Guard...
Krakow would be good, cause you have tons of background regarding city-factions.

Missions/activities: starting out with thefts, blackmailing, going to midlevel-smuggling-operations, to highlevel politics and internal assassinations.
Watch the movie (and HBO´s "Deadwood") or play GTA for a while, to get further inspirations.
That might be quite a different campaing. And a challenge to players, since they wont have a gang of trained soldiers around them, from the start.