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View Poll Results: What's your favorite T2k MacGuffin?
Dirigible 4 11.43%
RESET 6 17.14%
Black Madonna 11 31.43%
Social Security Records 3 8.57%
NBC Weapon/Launch Codes 1 2.86%
Gold Bars 2 5.71%
Carl Hughes 0 0%
Iranian Crown Jewels 0 0%
Satellite Data Tapes 1 2.86%
Other (please specify in post) 7 20.00%
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Old 07-20-2020, 09:51 AM
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RESET is the uber MacGuffin if the whole offensive really was launched just to provide cover to get it
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Old 07-20-2020, 03:02 PM
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Default RE-SET's Back, Alright!

I figured out how to edit the poll, so RESET has been added.
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Old 07-20-2020, 06:55 PM
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I have a hidden WW2 supply/repair depot floating around with several Panther tanks plus a Nazi loot convoy that includes, among other things, the Amber Room.

Pity the poor group that finds it and then tries to keep it to themselves!!
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Old 07-20-2020, 08:23 PM
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RESET is the uber MacGuffin if the whole offensive really was launched just to provide cover to get it
*sigh*
No. It really wasn't. That's clear when you examine the bigger picture as I did some years ago, and there's absolutely no evidence to support that claim.
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Old 07-20-2020, 10:46 PM
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Oh I know Leg - but even the original Krakow module floated that idea as why the offensive was launched - to provide cover to get Reset.
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Old 07-20-2020, 10:57 PM
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As a rumour.
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Default Pope MacGuffin I

I tried to run a campaign in Austria. The MacGuffin was the body of Pope John Paul II, being transported from Rome to his home town in Poland. I was inspired by Rainbow 6's awesome write up of the Swiss Guard in T2k.
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Old 07-21-2020, 09:52 AM
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I tried to run a campaign in Austria. The MacGuffin was the body of Pope John Paul II, being transported from Rome to his home town in Poland.
VERY cool idea! WAY more imaginative than the stuff I usually come up with.
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Old 07-21-2020, 03:36 PM
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I preferred Black Madonna to Reset, but both are close. I really enjoyed both MacGuffins as something Really Powerful, but there's no way the PCs can use it-- they HAVE to give it to someone else for it to realize its value.

The dirigible is one I have to run with sometime, though, I've become an airship fan in the years since. I just need a group that will commit to the time that a T2k game will need.
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