JUST an idea...

[Atrelegis]

Greetings ladies and gentlemen. This is my first post in these forums, after a few month's worth of lurking and I've decided to start off with an idea.

Since Quoth the Raven has already inserted new regions in the Demiplane of Dread, including the small smurff domain, a crazy thought came to mind.

What about South Park?

Let's put things in a rational order: South Park is a small mountain town, pretty much removed form civilisation, a place of awful rites, superistition, mad science, madder occult events, filled with a great number of citizens with the potential of inflicting evil, if not embodying evil. They have had many brushes with destruction and death, most of which concerned children.

Not to mention a perspective darklord with a very promising backgorund and curse:

Eric Cartman.

Now I know most of you will wave your head in disapproval, sigh with disbelief, or even choose to check another topic, but please bother to read the following facts:

-Eric Cartman is a child, a malevolent one. He is a racist and is offensive to jews, minorites and the poor, mostly due to his lack of affection or a fatherly figure
-He has commited a great number of atrocities, many of which pale some of the darklord's most hideous crimes. Take for example the case of Scott Tenorman, whose parents he ground up and had him eat.
-There is an available figure for him to focus both torment and affection and that is his mother. She loves him and gives in to anything he asks, practically enslaving her. She lives under his iron grip round her life.
-He has a nemesis, Kyle Brovlowsky, who thwarts his plans. Eric is a master manipulator and would be unstoppable hadn't it been for someone with Kyle's resolve to ruin each and every scheme of his. He is his opposite reflection and they are locked in eternal conflict with each other.
-He is a child and will remain a child. The malevolence inside him is enough to make high nigh-omnipotent, but his childish view of the world limits him to a fracton of his potential. His domain could easily be a little hell where time stands still, a place sealed with mountains, away from civilisation and human contact.

Okay, so maybe I said more than I should, but I really felt like I should share this idea with you people. I'm not expecting a netbook out of it, but it was something I'd like to throw into the idea pool.

[Drinnik Shoehorn]

I'll have some of what he's having, please...

[vipera aspis]

am i drunk?

[Gemathustra]

Why am I having flashbacks back to the thread concerning a domain based off of Jimmy Neutron?

[HuManBing]

I'm reserving first dibs on the 3.5 write-up of Mr. Hanky The Christmas Poo. I'd been throwing around the idea of writing up an "Earwax Golem" template for a while now, but now I think I may have to, erm, aim a little lower.

If you catch my - erm - drift...

[Jason of the Fraternity]

-There is an available figure for him to focus both torment and affection and that is his mother. She loves him and gives in to anything he asks, practically enslaving her. She lives under his iron grip round her life.

Actually, with this in mind, I think that it would be interesting to use the Unholy Scion template from Heroes of Horror on him. This would give Eric an array of special abilities above and beyond a merely 10-year-old child. Plus, it would give him the familial charm ability that controls his mother.

-He is a child and will remain a child. The malevolence inside him is enough to make high nigh-omnipotent, but his childish view of the world limits him to a fracton of his potential. His domain could easily be a little hell where time stands still, a place sealed with mountains, away from civilisation and human contact.

And don't forget that this would greatly limit his ability to get 1,000,000 gold pieces...

[Le Noir Faineant]

*Goes and gets a beer*

The silly this idea is, the cool I think it would be to play this out...

[alhoon]

I think there is a funny show there named South Park. I have seen an episode once.

PS Welcome!

[tec-goblin]

welcome atrelegis to the forums!

that's what smurf villages can do to a person - but you were nuts (in the good sense) even before this

[Atrelegis]

So, most of the reactions were expected...

Actually, I wasn;t referring to using south park as a domain in itself, but as a domain concept at the least. A darklord child, surounded by family and friends, never growing old, their population never dwindling people who die and live again the next day as if nothing happened, a life chock full of extremities can all be good points of inspiration for a domain.

Iamgine the characters entering a strange domain, where everything is unfamiliar. They are plagued by prejudice, attacked by alien entitie, get caught up in a crazy story...

And when the sun rises again, they are back to square one.

This experience can cripple a man's mental stability or downright shatter it, as he relives crazy, spectacular or deadly situations over and over, while everyone around him is oblivious to the fact.

Okay, so the South Park idea was dumb. But there are elements that can be used from it...

[Rotipher of the FoS]

If you're saying it'd be played straight, not for laughs, then it sounds a bit more like that Twilight Zone episode based on Jerome Bixby's "It's A Good Life" than it does, South Park.

That might actually be workable, come to think of it...

[DeepShadow of FoS]

Sounds a little like the domain of Wayward on the Bone Sands from the BoS series. That had a child DL who ground people up and fed them to others.

[Sorti]

Okay, so the South Park idea was dumb. But there are elements that can be used from it...

Hey, it was not dumb, I like it...
Nonetheless I think we would lose the main features of the cartoon by making a domain out of it, aince all of the sarcasm and satire (sp?) would be lost...

[Nathan of the FoS]

Have any of you guys read "It's a Good Life"? It has a very "Island in the Mists" feel to it, and it has a certain similarity to the South Park idea--mostly in the child darklord, I suppose.

[Jason of the Fraternity]

Actually, I wasn;t referring to using south park as a domain in itself, but as a domain concept at the least. A darklord child, surounded by family and friends, never growing old, their population never dwindling people who die and live again the next day as if nothing happened

I would agree with Sorti in that you would lose a bit of the Gothic feel if you were trying to stay true to South Park. With all of the satire and sarcasm within the show, I doubt you could pull off a very dark/gothic feel. However, you could certainly use a lot of the elements to create the domain that you proposed.

This experience can cripple a man's mental stability or downright shatter it, as he relives crazy, spectacular or deadly situations over and over, while everyone around him is oblivious to the fact.

Actually, I think that this would make a wonderful situation for players to deal with (not unlike the insanity that occurs in Vechor). Everyone keeps reliving the same day(s), and the only people that are aware of the truth are newcomers to the domain and the Darklord. Newcomers struggle to keep their sanity as they deal with these spectacular or deadly situations ove and over. The Darklord, on the other hand, deals with the frustration that he can never truly win when time keep resetting everything (i.e., enemies return from the dead each day, treasures won are returned during the night, master plans never reach fruitition, etc.).