Twilight Nightmares (was Your Preferred T2K Timeline)

[sic1701]

One of the previous posters mentioned the "Twilight Nightmares" book...what was the jist of that book? I have heard of it, but know nothing about it. Can someone clarify?

[kato13]

Originally Posted by sic1701

One of the previous posters mentioned the "Twilight Nightmares" book...what was the jist of that book? I have heard of it, but know nothing about it. Can someone clarify?

They are short adventures which could come from the X-files. They have E.T.s, intelligent dogs, giant mutant animals, self aware computers, etc. It is a very worthwhile read.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Originally Posted by sic1701

One of the previous posters mentioned the "Twilight Nightmares" book...what was the jist of that book? I have heard of it, but know nothing about it. Can someone clarify?

From what I remember it was a "What if" type book of scenarios very much in the vein of the X-Files as Kato has said. It was meant as something different to throw at the players if they wanted a change of pace but I vaguely recall it was all meant as a sort of a "if the players don't like it pretend it was a dream" idea.
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[sic1701]

As in, historical "What Ifs?"?

[kato13]

Originally Posted by sic1701

As in, historical "What Ifs?"?

No more like what if there were two extra-terrestrials who look human wandering around Poland, or what if the "Warlord" enslaving people with remote controlled vehicles is actually a sentient Artificial intelligence. There are "Jurrasic Park", "Predator" and "Them" story lines as well.

My running of Damocles (from Morrow Project) pulled a few bits from the sentient AI one.

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[sglancy12]

Originally Posted by kato13

No more like what if there were two extra-terrestrials who look human wandering around Poland, or what if the "Warlord" enslaving people with remote controlled vehicles is actually a sentient Artificial intelligence. There are "Jurrasic Park", "Predator" and "Them" story lines as well.

My running of Damocles (from Morrow Project) pulled a few bits from the sentient AI one.

Of all the scenarios in Twilight Nightmares, the best one, IMHO, was "Warlord." The others were a bit too informed by particular movies, as Kato13 mentioned above. I really liked the robot tanks in Warlord. They were particularly menacing. I especially liked the self-aware installation enslaving humans to perform the functions it can't perform for itself and creating a elite of "trustees" to supervice the other humans.

I think there might have enven been an option for the Warlord to turn out to be an update of the Wizard of Oz in so far as there is no self-aware A.I., just a guy down in the heart of the installation pretending to be the big scary sentient computer.

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[boogiedowndonovan]

I actually liked the Predator influenced Merc 2k scenario in the Brazilian rainforest.

And come to think of it, the "Warlords" scenario sounds a little like "Terminator" or even the Stephen King book/movie Maximum Overdrive.

I always thought the dinosaur scenario was a tie in to the GDW Cadillacs and Dinosaurs game (which was based on a comic). Did anyone else pick up Cadillacs and Dinosaurs? Never played it, but I was working on a T2k/Cadillacs and Dinosaurs scenario for my t2k gaming group shortly before we all parted ways. I wasn't going to tell them about crossing over into dino land either, hehe.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by boogiedowndonovan

I always thought the dinosaur scenario was a tie in to the GDW Cadillacs and Dinosaurs game (which was based on a comic). Did anyone else pick up Cadillacs and Dinosaurs? Never played it, but I was working on a T2k/Cadillacs and Dinosaurs scenario for my t2k gaming group shortly before we all parted ways. I wasn't going to tell them about crossing over into dino land either, hehe.

Well, of course you don't tell them they're crossing into dino land! I didn't tell my players they crossed into a D&D land when I did that to them, either!

I never played C&D, but I "sort of" have it. I know I have a physical copy of it around here somewhere, but I've long since scanned it so it will be easier to find.

[waiting4something]

Originally Posted by boogiedowndonovan

I actually liked the Predator influenced Merc 2k scenario in the Brazilian rainforest.

And come to think of it, the "Warlords" scenario sounds a little like "Terminator" or even the Stephen King book/movie Maximum Overdrive.

I always thought the dinosaur scenario was a tie in to the GDW Cadillacs and Dinosaurs game (which was based on a comic). Did anyone else pick up Cadillacs and Dinosaurs? Never played it, but I was working on a T2k/Cadillacs and Dinosaurs scenario for my t2k gaming group shortly before we all parted ways. I wasn't going to tell them about crossing over into dino land either, hehe.

Yeah I liked the Predator theme one in Brazil too. I would have changed a lot of the story line though and made it more like the movie Predator. I'm pretty sure that one will kill everyone off, unless they just said screw this and left.
The "Them" one was pretty cool and I think the idea was really stolen from the film Aliens. I think a line from Private Hudson was written in the book as well. The adventure in the Phillipines "THIS AIN'T NO WEATHER BALLOON" was a good story too. The rest just seemed kind of blah. I liked the idea, even though it's sci-fi and would really piss a lot of players off. We always hear of strange lights in the sky and unexplained monters, so what the hell.

[waiting4something]

I always thought it would have been cool if they did a Twilight story in Romania Transylvania with a vampire like clan or a legend of a wolf man or something lose in the country side attacking people. I guess it could be anywhere, but in Romania it would be more old school with some history to it.

[sic1701]

And I gotta ask...how many of you have incorporated some kind of zombie-apocalypse into your campaign?

[Cpl. Kalkwarf]

Originally Posted by sic1701

And I gotta ask...how many of you have incorporated some kind of zombie-apocalypse into your campaign?

Yup did that, still playing it.

[sic1701]

Originally Posted by Cpl. Kalkwarf

Yup did that, still playing it.

Excellent!