Shameful Self-Bump.

This could be cool if you do it right. Unfortunately, I don't have enough experience to help you with it.

>>6626934
I'm going to parrot this poster while I bump the thread and try to think of some ideas, but this sounds AWESOME if well done.

Well. That would depend greatly on when civilization in your would could be placed in relation to ours. Just remember that the growth of technology is exponential, and that it could be quite possible to reach a technological singularity at that point in time. Maybe even after that. Your party wakes up in the grimdark future of 40k. But that's just a bit of realism. Personally, I would suggest Steampunk. because I am a fucking faggot for Steampunk.

OK, if it's been a few millennia after magic, tech should have probably advanced considerably, but I'd say go with what you like to describe. Steampunk is always fun, but atomicpunk would seem to me to have some nice thematic connotations, "we have replaced to God of unexplainable forces with the God of logic and reason" type deal.

Also, what will be their first order of business? I'd assume they'd have at least one magic user (will you be counting bardic powers, divine powers etc as magic as well? this is an important question!). They might be quickly snatched up by MiBs, interrogated by a society that has forgotten the power of magic, etc.

Most importantly, what will their quest be once they come out? Return to their own time and loved ones? Fix what went wrong in the past (prevent the MAgi-Nazis)?

cmon /tg/, let's get some shit done!

I'd go futuristic, and the very first thing that happens is they get their hands on some fucking laser swords.

The problem with the reverse-Connecticut-Yankee gambit is that modern combat is all about guns, which are just UNSPEAKABLY deadly compared to anything they're used to. A Star Wars like world with laser-bladed melee weapons and unobtainium armor could very easily get things back to something like they're used to. Still different enough for culture shock, but they won't get gunned down in the street in 1 round.

Besides, steampunk is only fun if you're playing an engineer who can actually play around with the tech, and modern day just plain sucks ass.

They wake up in a Warrior fueled society
where the idea of anything out of warrior worship is thought of as strange.

>>6627039

I'm thinking some sort of quest to discover long forgotten, hidden magic texts to attempt to go back and prevent the mage-nazis. Or if the party likes where they are, they can do stuff in the 'future'.

There could possibly be a secret society of those who had protected magic and kept it a secret.

Ah, so far it looks like the party currently consists of a Fighter, Rogue, Wizard, and a Sorcerer. They don't know what I'm planning.

>>6627100
The "Search for ancient texts and go back in time" thing could bring up a conflict with gov. forces trying to fight magic. They've completely forgotten about it and what it does, so they could be the ones caught flatfooted. Your first step might be to decide just how powerful the PCs' magic IS. How does, say Magic Missile compare to Cruise Missile?

>>6627100
Perhaps in the first couple of sessions, before they are hired by the wizard (or they find these items in the wizard's lair), give the fighter and rouge some nifty magical items that, unbeknownst to them, protection increases as the velocity of the hit increases. Thus they would have moderate to good protection against modern guns, and could stack up as well as the other two.

Just imagine a fighter running towards a gunline of Redcoats or the foxholes of SAS troops screaming GREAT CLEAVE!

>>6627100
>>6627138
Maybe the time traveling also messes with some sort of "eldric horror time guardians" who say they are problem to the time line

C'mon /tg/, of all the awesome ideas to ignore, why this one ;_;

IS the OP even reading? Fuck, I samefagged half the posts in this thread because it was Relevant To My Interests, and yet rather than an Original Idea on the from page, we have spamtacular virusbots.

>>6627230
Magi-Nazi here: I am more superior to all you non magics

>>6627296
Soooooo, are there going to be, say Neo-Magics hiding out in the boondocks of the world biding their time until everyone has forgotten about the Power of Magic so that they can rule again? Or are our PCs the only one who will have magic?

I'd do it where there was a human wizard who led a genocidal crusade across the world, killing all non-humans in his wake. Then the non-human civilized races, along with some of the more barbaric races, rally together and counter-genocide. The elves became the social and political leaders, and they decide that magic is far too dangerous in the hands of less wise races, and so it is banished, punishable by death. The heroes awaken to this world, thrown into a dark age following the criminalization of magic and the elimination of the human species.

This lets you have secret police, dwarven steampunk, rogue wizards, warbands that are no longer held at bay by civilized magic users, secret colonies of human survivors, and secret government programs to redevelop magic under the guise of technology. And any humans in your party need a disguise ASAP.

>>6627418
No we're getting somewhere.

>>6627292

OP is still here, reading. I'm just working on a project that is due Tomorrow at the same time.

I am loving a lot of these ideas, truthfully. Mmm... Dwarven Steampunk.

Don't let me interfere though, guys. You guys work better without OP interfering, from what I've observed.

>>6627100

This will not work. Revise it. Go with a 'high magic' campaign. Fighter is now duskblade, rogue is now... some rogue... caster. Or, suggest they go with caster based prc's. So rogue 3/wiz2/prcx if you follow. This varies depending on the level you want them to get stuck in time at. But high magic is the only way.

After the time freeze, put them in whatever other setting they would be... cool with. Find out what they like. Say they all like westerns because who doesn't?

Instead of a gunslinger the sorc becomes the fastest spellslinger in the west, carving out a niche. The duskblade, forsaking his sword becomes an expert marksman with a magically augmented rifle.

>>6627292
Feel your pain.

Gentlemen, please keep bumping and making this good throughout the night. Must sleep but also must see how op's idea develops. Sounds awesome.

I'm thinking that you should have some underground magical resistance, but just to elaborate on how effective the magical purge was. Like their most powerful member is a level 2 wizard or something.

"The ancient texts speak of a magical weapon of unimaginable and deadly power! It was named 'M'ajik Mis'syl'. To this day we strive to find a tome that will allow us to cast this spell. Once it is ours, we shall rise up, overthrow our oppressors, for they will be HELPLESS before its DEVASTATING POWER."

Also for Tech level, I'd suggest 1950-1980, atomicpunk or near future. Present day is a bad idea and cyberpunk just wouldn't fit thematically. Near singularity settings would make their magic redundant unless they are already level 20 or something. And steampunk is WAAAAAY overdone in magic heavy settings. Even for the scenario described here.

A bump for the guy that wanted this alive till morning.

Ill bump this

I'm stealing this idea and tucking it away in my 'awesome stuff /tg/ has created' folder. Bump for awesome idea that needs to be read.

Yes, Yes. Thousand year old Sorcerer dueling it out with outlaws in the wild west. I do enjoy this idea.

>>6627760
This is hilarious, and you should feel good.

a grimdark future in the 40000.... hey w8 a sec....