Okay, given the response I got in the RP ideas thread, I'm trying this out. The basic idea is that several groups of soldiers, be they Space Marines, Imperial Guard, Tau, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Necrons, Chaos, or Orks suddenly wake up and find themselves on the shelves of a Games Workshop store. They're the exact same scale as the mini-figures.

And they pretty much can get off the shelves and out of the store they can explore or fight amongst themselves. The problem is that they wake up in the middle of the night when no one is around. Come daytime, the mall opens up and if there is a lot of noticeable damage the Mall security calls the cops. And then the factions have to hide from the SWAT teams, as given the size difference between them, a regular SWAT 9mm submachine-gun is going to be like a full auto earthshaker.

So, I'm looking for more ideas and likely sub-G Ms to help me run this. No more doing stuff on my own.

edited 11th Apr '12 12:29:43 PM by RevenVrake

Shades of Turn Signals on a Land Raider here.

...Knew the idea sounded familiar, just couldn't put my finger on it. >.< But, um, yeah, this sounds potentially goofy enough to dispel some of the stuff that made the later editions of the game rather distasteful to me, so... Interested, I guess. Will try to think up ideas, but for now, um... Kinda dry, ahah. Sorry. >.<

edited 11th Apr '12 12:40:44 PM by Moerin

@Deadbeat: Turn Signals has good comedy in it although this would be more of a free form RPG and not really a funny tabletop based game.

Hmmm, this looks very interesting. Though, I have some questions about the tone of the game just so I know what you're planning.

Will this mostly be a "serious" or "silly" RPG?

What will be the main focus of the game? The escalation of the battle as the aeons-old battle between these forces continue into this new, uncharted and very big land? Or a wackier/less serious exploration of the contemporary human world from the viewpoint of the tiny soldiers come alive?

Will warp magic/Psyker powers/weapon effectiveness carry over from the original game? As in, Warp Daemon figurines working together to Lash Of Submitting real-world humans, Psykers potentially setting the shop on fire, Carnifexes going around eating rats and scaring cats, etc.

Will the characters be "transported" from their setting to the shop? As in, they were sleeping in their barracks/warp/egg sacks/etc. and woke up as figures in the shop? Or will they be "blank slates" as in they just wake up with all the knowledge of the Warhammer 40 K-verse but have no specific experiences from ever actually serving on ships/fighting in wars/slaughtering thousands/etc.?

—pokes nose in—

Are we talking parodic, lighter and softer, or something else? Or just the same edition wot had da Orkz at deir bezt?

As for the tone, it really depends on what the players really want. We could go totally stone cold grimdark or we could go along the lines of the Caphias Cain novels which mix some humor into it.

Also, note, I did not say I would let Tyranids into this universe. They're don't have enough character to really count. One might have made the same argument for the Necrons but the latest codex for them makes them into Tomb Kings in space so they do have personality.

I'm aiming to make this entertaining, not boring or depressing.

Considering at this point in time the Warp wasn't really all that developed Daemons might have a few problems.

My personal preference would be to keep the tone more like the earlier editions, back when they still had that great bite of satire, parody and absurdity and before the setting became incredibly grimderp, but... Hmmm. The fact that everyone is going to be only a few centimeters tall kinda already predisposes this to more on the silly side of things anyways, so I suppose there probably shouldn't be any problems there.

...So yeah, as long as it's treated as seriously as the premise entails, I think it should work pretty well. If the tone starts to get more like the grimderpiness of the later editions then I'd start to worry, but otherwise... Yeah.

...Also, dumb question: would, um... Would Fantasy stuff be allowed too? I already know the answer will probably be "no", but it never hurts to ask I guess.

edited 11th Apr '12 1:15:21 PM by Moerin

If we're going by the earlier editions, where Fantasy and 40K were connected through the Warp...

Can they move when humans are around?

And is Tinyhammer an accepted source of inspiration?

How are you handling Chaos in this?

And how would Epic-scale miniatures fit?

is this going to include the full line of Games Workshop figures? If so it's going to be very strange when the 40, 000 orks meet the original Warhammer and Lord of The Rings ones.