The Dragonfyre Association is a collective of unique individuals who share a deep and abiding passion for several things. Beer, games, and movies are primary among these. Formed in 1995 under the less-than inspired name of The Red Dragon Club, it morphed several years later into Clan Linnorm (taken from the linnorm dragons found in the 1st Annual Monstrous Compendium for AD&D). Somewhere around 2000 or 2001 the name was changed to the Dragonfyre Gaming Association, or DFGA for short. We are a closeknit group of friends living in the western suburbs of Minneapolis, MN.

Friday, January 22, 2010

The League 2000

Harris mentioned to me some time ago (years?) about a forum post he read that kind of stuck with me. It was about the League of Reagan-era Gentlemen and followed the trend of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in the sense that a group of otherwise unrelated characters were brought together to foil some plot/defeat some evil.

The idea has been rolling around in my head for quite a while and I decided I wanted to do a one-shot with this idea. It would be with Savage Worlds and would involve the League in 1999 - on the cusp of the 21st century. Some villain(s) were threatening the world and only an assortment of characters from the past 25 years stood in their way.

The premise behind the League is that the characters of fiction are real. Most of the most renown characters in the past 30 years have been TV or movie characters - larger than life, people whose name you know even if you haven't seen them or read them.

Here are some characters I brainstormed. You'll see some of these fulfill different niches, and more than a few are essentially "duplicates" (fulfilling the same role). But you get the idea.

John McClain – Die Hard

John Rambo – First Blood

Doc Emmet Brown – Back to the Future

Clarice Starling – Silence of the Lambs

Sarah Connor – Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Jules Winnfield – Pulp Fiction

Egon Spangler – Ghostbusters

Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez – Highlander

Ash Williams – Evil Dead II

Roy Neary – Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Karate Kid – Karate Kid

Cole Sear – The Sixth Sense

Agent J – Men in Black

“Crocodile” Mick Dundee – Crocodile Dundee

David Lightman – War Games

1 comment:

Spoonbridge said...

I didn't know Ash had a last name! So, when Ash wakes up in the future at the end of Army of Darkness, he'll have to battle Terminators, then, right?

In the original, the characters were all from the '80s, as the scenario was set ten years after their incidents.