Deathwatch makes me sad. It starts like two hours ago and I still have no material. I always kind of expected this would happen, that thread is like three months old and seeing it suddenly swarm with activity is like seeing your dead lover return to life after you've moved on and found someone else. I'm not saying it's dead or anything, I'll see what I can come up with, but for the grand framework I've got for the next mission I've hit a roadblock in the actual implementation.
Making things worse is that my brain has become a veritable font of cool ideas for a completely different campaign.
Like, what if your average generic fantasy kingdom suddenly experienced some kind of massive astral conjunction, resulting in huge planar rifts to the Abyss and 9 Hells to pop up all over the world. Demonic and Diabolic Warhosts pour through and within a matter of months civilization is swept aside and the campaign setting is turned into a blasted hellscape, just one more front for the Blood War. Buuuut, one lucky city's circle of mages gets their shit together and erects a magic dome encompassing some 50-100 miles around their capital. The dome keeps the bad guys out, and life goes on semi-normally, the bubble being large enough for the city and surrounding villages to be self-sufficient. This goes on for a few hundred years, with elite organizations being formed to maintain the barrier and deal with isolated incursions. The players would be members of one of these organizations, with missions ranging from taking out cults, killing lone demons that manage to slip through the barrier, moving on at the higher tiers (It would be a 4e setting) to leaving the barrier and clearing out areas to expand the sphere, fighting more powerful demons and, getting to the epic levels, heading deep into enemy territory and even leaving the material plane to search for a means of banishing the demons for good. It'd be awesome, but thinking about it makes me guilty because I should be thinking up cool stuff for Deathwatch.