u/AWandererOfIntrest

Hello everyone,

I am planning a custom DnD campaign being set during The Great War (WW1, 1914-1918) where the campaign is the players attempting to stop the war, a possible continuation being ending the war or doing espionage for the kingdom that hires them. I wanted a mix of fantasy and antiquity.

Before this fills the comments yes, I’m aware other games that DnD exist, however my friends (aka players) are more familiar with DnD, however if I must change system I will change the system.

That brings me to the kingdoms, I have three in mind:

- A kingdom mixing the United States and United Kingdom

- A kingdom based on East Asia and part of Russia

- A kingdom based on Europe (aside from the UK)

A few main questions I have are:

1. Is DnD suitable for this, as I know it leans more medieval based fantasy.
2. Guns. Should I add them? They would all be bolt rifles or semi automatic pistols.
3. Should the players get the ‘bad ending’ should I have another campaign about ending the war? And if they get the good ending, no second campaign.
4. Mixing fantasy and modernity. In a world of dragons and magic, would biplanes and machine guns be obsolete.

Thank you so much for reading and giving your time. And I eagerly await your suggestions and comments.

Edit:
DnD will be removed from my table in search of a new system. I will stop trying to force DnD into something it isn’t and just tell my friends to suck it up, I’m sorry for committing the great sin of using a more familiar system as a crutch for my work. Thank you everyone.

And yes, I do play other systems, I’m a huge CoC fan, and before people scream at me to use it, it’s not what I’m looking for, I want a high fantasy to mix with the industrial age, if I wanted to run CoC I’d have run CoC.

So, this is weird to me at least but I usually am just an over thinker. I noticed that when I join a fandom or really like a piece of media, I have an urge to create an OC for it. Now most of them are normal, like a ponysona for MLP or a stand user for JJBA but I just randomly one day made a character for Ferris Buller’s Day Off, just felt compelled to make one and I just did.

I’ve been in fandom culture since I was young, suffered the horrors of Amino, and been to conventions since I became 18. Is it normal to feel that urge to make an OC for media even if it ‘doesnt make sense’? Or am I just weird and have some things left over from earlier fandom days.