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scissorman
Feb 7, 2011
Ramrod XTreme

fatherdog posted:

Well, I mean, the endgame is always gonna be "Dystopian government conspiracy" so I can turn it into The Running Man, but that (and likewise the Evil Corporation idea) is something you want to gradually build to. I need some kind of good interstitial for the early part of the campaign. The orphanage idea might have some legs, but one of the reasons I want to do an X-Crawl campaign is to let people go buck-rear end wild with whatever ridiculous overpowered optimization they want, and I don't want them to have to choose between sending money back to the orphanage or buying their next ridiculous magic item.

(Also I'm 99% certain that one of my players is going to use an X-Crawl campaign as an opportunity to play Kenny Powers as a Sorcerer which would probably not mesh well with altruistic motives.)
Maybe you can introduce a shady rival team or otherwise play up the bad side of professional sports.
The other team could try to sabotage one of their runs and now the group wants to get revenge but there's more going on - fantasy drugs and other cheating are an excuse to introduce unique effects and items , other teams that were screwed over by the bad guys if you want to add investigation etc.
And behind them you have the evil corporation/government, which is now conveniently embodied by what was originally just a rival sports team.

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