OD&D/OSR Campaigns and Crossovers?

[darien]

Has anyone here ever used OD&D or OSR systems like Swords & Wizardry or Microlite74 to do campaigns that are outside the traditional medieval fantasy genre or does a crossover of genres?


I've considered doing a D&D/Digimon crossover, as well as other campaigns that are crossovers as well, such as a campaign involving material from Stephen King's The Stand and a few other works as well.

And of course, I am still working on creating an anime-themed OSR game myself.

[scottenkainen]

One of my two ongoing Hideouts & Hoodlums campaigns had my 1941 heroes heading to Occupied Norway to fight the Nazis away from the home town of one of the heroes. While there, they discovered the Nazis were looking for a wizard's tomb and beat them to it. But defiling the wizard's tomb unleashed a spell that magically merged the Tromso, Norway of our world with the City State of the Invincible Overlord. The heroes had to find the Overlord's scepter, orb, and/or crown and break them to put the worlds back.

[Finarvyn]

I've run the base OD&D rules system for Star Wars, John Carter of Mars, espionage, modern horror, and so on. It's a pretty versitile system and is easy for me to "wing it" with pretty much any setting. My secret is to generate a short weapons list and a short monster (or alien) list. Otherwise I use OD&D mostly as written.

For example, in a modern setting:
Fighting Men = police, military, physical types
Clerics = lesser combatants, athletes, etc.
Magic users = modern mages (if I have magic)
Thief = computer hackers, burglars, sneaky types

[darien]

Mar 25, 2016 12:44:23 GMT -6 Finarvyn said:

I've run the base OD&D rules system for Star Wars, John Carter of Mars, espionage, modern horror, and so on. It's a pretty versitile system and is easy for me to "wing it" with pretty much any setting. My secret is to generate a short weapons list and a short monster (or alien) list. Otherwise I use OD&D mostly as written.

For example, in a modern setting:
Fighting Men = police, military, physical types
Clerics = lesser combatants, athletes, etc.
Magic users = modern mages (if I have magic)
Thief = computer hackers, burglars, sneaky types

Interesting, I might do a modern anime game using OD&D as the base (or more likely Microlite74 Basic as I already have the PDF for that) and I may use your class guidelines for it.