TheFreshmanDozen
Ok, quick description:
General
This is the English "Freshman" campaign for the Fall 2011. The setting is low-medium fantasy; there's magic and it's actually somewhat common, but only a very few very experienced wizards or very pious priests can create large and long-lasting effects. The tone for the campaign is rather gritty; it's not as lethal as The Dirty Dozen but most likely some characters, possibly player characters, will die along the way. If this happens, you can continue by playing another character from the squad (or quit the campaign). The other major source for inspiration is The French Foreign Legion.
The situation for the campaign is as follows: You've all gathered to join the Kuiko (local kingdom) Royal Ranger Corps as novices. The reason for doing so is up to the player to decide; the most common ones are avoiding a minor or moderate sentence like forced labor or physical punishment, poor prospects in the world, or desire for glory. Surviving the novice period in the Corps is generally seen to mean that you have proven to be useful member of or even a valuable asset to society.
Being a novice in the Ranger Corps basically means that you get put into a squad of 8-12 people and sent off with a sergeant for dangerous missions for 2-6 months. Everyone that survives gets to join the Ranger Corps as a private, the regular army as a corporal, or just continue their life as they wish. The general rates are that 5-10% get killed, 10-40% get wounded in some permanent way and the rest survive at least physically pretty much the same.
Details
I haven't yet mapped out nearly all the stuff; I'll be doing this after I've talked to the players. The campaign will begin sometime after the freshman sauna (22.9.), and will likely last 3-6 sessions. I haven't yet finalized my decision for the system, but I'll probably use Fate, either 2nd or 3rd edition, possibly simplified so that everybody's comfortable with it.
And if everyone hates this idea, fine. I'll run a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic-campaign.
