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Another quick idea:
The PCs are exterminators within a big city. Monsters and stuff probably have a way into the major population centers of the city and someone has to deal with them. They probably don't fall directly into police jurisdiction, so third parties need to be called in. The PCs can be contractors themselves or be a part of an entire office of exterminators. Maybe certain businesses or sectors have contracts with certain exterminators and sometimes the PCs have to deal with rivals invading their "turf".

It's not glamorous, but I think it could be fun.

1970 wrote:Another quick idea:
The PCs are exterminators within a big city. Monsters and stuff probably have a way into the major population centers of the city and someone has to deal with them. They probably don't fall directly into police jurisdiction, so third parties need to be called in. The PCs can be contractors themselves or be a part of an entire office of exterminators. Maybe certain businesses or sectors have contracts with certain exterminators and sometimes the PCs have to deal with rivals invading their "turf".

It's not glamorous, but I think it could be fun.

Now THAT is a great idea!

Not only will that give characters of broader types more mobility, but it will send them into all kinds of awfulness.

I envision much of the city as urban blight. Miles and miles of (active and inactive) factories, power plants, and tenement-like housing. The shining, decadent regions are like utopian islands of plenty amidst a sea of pollution and gridlock. This is all criss-crossed with steam tunnels, access tunnels, sewers and public transit train routes. Such places are breeding grounds for mutant [img]things[/img] of all description.

Likely infestations of creatures could get increasingly frightening.

Common Vermin: Black Pudding, Carcass Scavenger, Crocodile (Sewer Gator), Gray Ooze, Green Slime, Insect Swarm (cockroach, biting flies, leech), Ochre Jelly, Puddle Worm, Rat (All), Rot Grub, Vomit Fly, Yellow Mold.

Increasingly weird and terrifying foes would be for more epic struggles. Morlock servants of an enterprising Brain Lasher and its Pure Human politician allies. Escaped war-criminal upgrading bums with cybernetics. Cockroachoid queen and her vile servants...