Comments on: 10 Sci-Fi Plot Twists

By: Mike Bourke

Mike Bourke — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 23:13:39 +0000

The non-genre-specificity can actually be an advantage, Samuel – it creates a window to drop in a little out-of-genre flavor and content into a fixed-genre campaign. Variety is the stuff of life 🙂
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By: Samuel Van Der Wall

Samuel Van Der Wall — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 22:11:25 +0000

@ Mike – Thanks for #11!

@ John – Yeah, I agree. When I started researching this I realized many plot twists aren’t really genre specific.
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By: John Lewis

John Lewis — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:04:43 +0000

Excellent plot twists Sam. Most of these could be used in a variety of genres and games.
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By: Mike Bourke

Mike Bourke — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 23:45:26 +0000

This ISN’T one that I’ve seen in the media. “The Enemy of My Enemy is My Enemy”. Group X (who include the PCs) are contacted by a group who claim to be the enemy of some threat facing Group X, with plenty of very convincing (and completely genuine) evidence, backed up by intelligence reports from within that Enemy. The enemy-of-my-enemy seeks an alliance against the enemy, and the PCs have to make a final investigation of the prospects, give the final do-it-or-not decision, and plan how best both sides can take advantage of the alliance if it goes ahead. At the 11th hour (and 59 minutes) they discover that the enemy-of-my-enemy are even worse than the enemy for completely different reasons or are simply using Group X to weaken their enemies before attacking both. The only way for Group X to survive is to negotiate a peace treaty with their initial (and still hostile) enemies – in the process sacrificing a large part of their ideals and humanity. Guess who group X are gonna send? This touches on a couple of major themes – the price of victory, humanity/morality vs expediency, does the end justify the means, and which is the lesser of two evils. Fun post, Samuel 🙂
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