Campaign, A-Potato-Collapse Now

If you want a quick weekend game. Start them off with some action: Suddenly an explosing and fight. It skips looking for the hook to a game and what are we doing... Since you want to guard a caravan - have the start be a raid on it where they are taken by THREAT a) I try to look at mythology: the 4 horse men (death, famine, war, plague) b) stretch it to something else with 4... 4 food groups: Grain - mutant horse, Protien - mutant bull, Fruits - mutant colorful zebra, Dairy - mutant cow. c) add irony: riding lobotomized giant human/ape mounts.

Add a reason: 4 horse men make me think of the apolalypse - so something very bad will happen a) reason: They are preparing for the worst where they believe all the potatoes in thier farms will suddenly vanish. b) thier train of thought: Thinking mel gibson - apocalypto - They believe that they technology will help them so they are gathering it and sacrificies c) lose potatoes... need a potato god: sacrifices to a large Mr. Potato Head Statue. d) irony again: They yell "A-POTATO-COLLAPSE NOW!" while attacking the caravan.

Bonus points if a player plays a plastic plant potato.

edit* Follow up - if you want others to be the cause of the Great Potato Collapse. Have them be the "Black Eyed Peas" who are destroying the potatoes on moral standing.... or something

edit 2* maybe the Black Eyed Peas is an evil alien POD with 4 Peas inside of it. He has inhabitited the holy food pyramid that the horse people worship and his roots are boring through the ground killing the potatoes...

edit 3* the holy food pyramid could be a collapsed FDA building :P