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Hi all,

I am interested in hearing about cross genre/setting games that folks have put together and how successful they were. Pretty much anything that pulls aspects from one genre or game setting into another that were not necessarily set up to be run together.

To get the thread started I will share the following:

1) Crossed over the Torg Tharkoldu cosm setting into the Shadowrun campaign. A magical experiment that went awry opened a brief portal between earth and the tharkoldu cosm home to magically and tehcnologically powered daemons and a group of humans called the race. During the experiment a technodaemon was "brought" over and after some serious amount of destruction was subdued and dissected starting the corporation that found it along multiple different paths of new cybernetic enhancement, including technomagical enhancements that was supposed to use technology to enhance magical ability. Much money and expense was spent to recreate the accident and a group of 6 daemons was captured for experimentation. Eventually they escaped and mostly leveled the facility they were kept in. Given corporations do not learn from their trafic mistakes like normal people do, they attempted to open the gate a 3rd time. This time a platoon of Race soldiers came through the gate to follow the daemons and "deal with them". Campaign revolved around the daemons killing people and needing to be hunted down and the affects of the corp's testing methods for their new technology and its impact on the streets. Was a very successful campaign which resulted in a massive assault on the offending corporation involving lots of NPCs and the PCs with the backing on an unknown benefactor. The daemons were all recovered, the corp was crushed and the technology and experimental data disposed of or was as far as the players were aware. Of course the benefactor was a lesser known great dragon who took all of the data for himself and eventually used it 2 campaigns later to create an army of replicated humans, but that is another story. One of the daemons actually settled in Seattle and as my campaign world is contiguous is a well known fixer in the Shadows now, using magic and astral masking to hide his true nature.

2) My other successful crossover involved a Call of Cthluhu crossover into another Shadowrun campaign (yeah I Shadowrun is my favorite game to run). Created an entirely new magical tradition with its own trappings and "spirits" to summon using my extensive CoC library. It played a lot like the Universal Brotherhood campaign in 1st edition shadowrun played. Corp looking to "help the common man" by building 5 special housing enclaves for underprivileged Seattle residents. Each enclave was christened by the unveiling of a strange and beautiful sculpture that would help define the feel for the enclaves. Of course the statues all were points on a pentagram with the Aztechnology pyramid at the center and things just went down hill from there. Some very disturbing recovered security video footage helped set the tone when they found video of a star vampire (normally invisible, but they become visible as they consume a victim's blood) attack a security watchman and it looked like the guy was being torn apart by nothing until the horrid shape of creature slowly came into view as it consumed his blood, and later found a crime scene where a corp executive had been killed inside his locked office and his body appeared to be crushed from all around simultaneously which his one foot being detached. The video for that one showed a formless spawn coming through the ventilation grill, flowing over the guy and crushing him, with the foot getting popped off in the process. The campaign was definitely a lot of fun to run.

I have to thank my group who played in these two campaigns. They took to them with gusto an really got into the characterizations of everything really well. Our Shadowrun sessions tend to be a lot of roleplaying interspersed with the occasional dice roll, but we really go weeks without rolling any dice. Really helps the story come to life for me as the GM.

So what crossovers have you done and enjoyed??
Skriker

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