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Adventure Ideas that Actually Worked for Your Group

Anonymous Fri 28 Nov 2008 23:54:00 No.3077936 View View Reply Original Report

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1. Capture an iron ship that's terrorizing the coast
2.Prevent a goblin army from invading a city through its sewers
3. Get to the bottom of a library with extradimensional size, 10 basements, and it's own civilization.
4. Find the source and wipe out animal zombies spawning from a corrupted Druid's grove.
5. Wagon Race across a nation.
6. Impress a foreign noble from an eastern country.

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Anonymous Sat 29 Nov 2008 00:02:00 No.3077981 Report

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I once ran an adventure where a cult animated a giant statue of Pelor that started to destroy the city.

They had to try and fight the statue, while fighting cultists, while trying to negotiate with old clerics of Pelor who did not want to see the statue harmed.

It was choatic, but I think everyone had fun.

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Anonymous Sat 29 Nov 2008 00:17:00 No.3078038 Report

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wow, that is a hell of a doll. . .

and me not even a collector (except for the odd Gundam Physalis and Sephiroth. . .currently being fused into a totem/shrine to ward off evil spirits)

Anyways, you lured me in, /tg/ so i guess i best contribute.

Well, it was vampire the masquerade, but my D&D games never got far. But anyways, Had them playing out orders from the Prince of Paris/Versailles to try to quell this growing rebellion. Only most of their missions seemed to inflame the uprising even more. Took them a while to realize that they were being hoodwinked by a 6th generation ravnos playing Prince. Found out roughly at the time the real prince apprehended them and demanded a fancy execution for all of their traitorous deeds.

Ever see a bunch of twinker's try to suddenly bust out atrophied roleplaying skills to save their bacon? fucking hilarious.

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Anonymous Sat 29 Nov 2008 00:23:00 No.3078074 Report

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How did the giant library game go OP?

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Anonymous Sat 29 Nov 2008 00:26:00 No.3078091 Report

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Evil plagues a city, ends with a fight in a cathedral full of cultists and a loli shoggoth.

A group unearths a sealed tome and its in the custody of the church. The Paladins of this particular church think this book can be used fight the evil because there are members of the demonic forces telling them not to open it. A greater evil is unleashed than the local evil forces and has seduced the church. Players work with the local evil forces to subdue the local evil forces to destroy the book and the evil it unleashed.

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Anonymous Sat 29 Nov 2008 00:35:00 No.3078124 Report

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>>3078074
It was in a relatively low-magic campaign, so the strangeness of this enormous dungeon inside a seemingly average building definitely made an impact.

Especially since I just ran with it to the point in which each basement level had thousands of people living inside, with their cultures based on the focal idea that living in this kind of place would drive you insane (at least by ordinary standards), it definitely held the player's attention.

The player's also liked the library aspect, with rare books being used as currency, the shelves being used to create encampments, and the notion of being quiet exaggerated (since being loud attracted the monsters and beasts that lived in there).

I used a lot of Undermountain for inspiration, but things just snowballed into making the place somewhere the players actually continually ask me to revisit.

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Anonymous Sat 29 Nov 2008 00:41:00 No.3078146 Report

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>>3078124
Sounds good. Could you tell us a bit more about what the people living in the library were like?
How long had they been there? Had they been to the outside world?

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Anonymous Sat 29 Nov 2008 00:59:00 No.3078222 Report

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>>3078124
OP I hope you realize it is in fact story time.

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Anonymous Sat 29 Nov 2008 01:12:00 No.3078269 Report

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>>3078146
It depends on the level.

The ground floor is an ordinary, if cramped, library.

The first basement is known for being dry and filled with dust, and contains many scholars who were too weak to proceed further but too curious to leave. They cover themselves in gray cloaks, and tend to hide and flee more so than anything else. With limited food and water, even by the library's standards, it serves almost as a boundary between the ordinary world and the monsters that dwell deeper.

The second level belongs mostly to adventurers that began by seeking magical tomes rumored to be down here but ended up staying, either by fate or choice. This is also where the largest market is, with rare books being exchanged for just about anything.

The third level has small druid groves intermixed within the sea of shelves, remnants of a druidic investigation that's been forgotten by the outside world. They've lost most of their reasoning and powers, and have come to the conclusion that the books and shelves are actually a part of nature. The stranger ones try to do things like planting books like seeds or tending 'groves' of shelves.

The fourth was mostly monsters, with duergar being the most common humanoid, and lower still there's rumors of a drow enclave, a demon temple, and far worse, but few have travelled lower (ie, the players never really got much further than the 3rd floor), so it remains mostly unexplored.

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Anonymous Sat 29 Nov 2008 01:33:00 No.3078336 Report

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>>3078269
if its got its own civilization, how are the basic necessities covered? education is obviously not an issue. mainly food and water I'm wondering. clothing, transportation, etc.

I could make up ideas myself, I'm just wondering how you did that part

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Anonymous Sat 29 Nov 2008 01:41:00 No.3078367 Report

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>>3078336
NOT op here.

Magical books that bend reality and call things into existence?

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Anonymous Sat 29 Nov 2008 01:48:00 No.3078379 Report

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>>3078269

Interesting OP. I may just use this.

As for my campaighns that actually worked...

1. Pirates were being attacked by the Imperials from the mainland. insert Pirates of The Carribean and you've got this adventure. It was pretty awesome.

2. The PC's find a dead body in the street, and people start to crowd aorund them. they are accused of murdering the Prince of Ciladel. In a TWEEST the king was the actual murderer, using a dagger that drains peoples souls. He needed the soul of his son, the soul of an elven goddess, and his own to open up a portal that unleashed the great demon lord Knakutem. The players cornered him an defeated him, with one PC taking only one wound from the dagger. The portal is opened however, and Knakutem is released. Insert climactic battle. The PC's live another day, but the one with the wound is cursed, growing older and weaker everyday, his soul slowly being sucked into oblivion. I have yet to finish this adventure.

3. An army of orcs is coming in from the south, and its up to the PC's who were hired mercenaries to take out their leaders. They failed horribly, many of them dying, but in the final moments, they were able to kill the BBEG. So I guess that one was 50/50..

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Anonymous Sat 29 Nov 2008 01:51:00 No.3078394 Report

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>>3078367
while that could work, if that's the only explanation, then its not very imaginative; its a sort of deus ex machina

>>3078336
cause my idea is that transportation is for the most part by foot, but there would be some routes, and stairs that are wide enough to be used as highways (aisles in bookshelves would be alleys).

clothing I suppose at worst would come from the leather in leather-bound books

food could partly come from monsters and domesticated animals living there

but mainly for everything else they would have to rely on commerce with the outside world, perhaps not consciously, but, say, some ambitious low-life peddlers see opportunity in selling important stuff to the library's residents, stuff that would be easy to find in the outside world but not in the library: food, clothing, perhaps even clean water, stuff like that

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Anonymous Sat 29 Nov 2008 01:58:00 No.3078414 Report

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Small streams with limited plant life growing near them supplied the majority of the food. Fungus was the staple of most diets, and meat from the various monsters (many of which could process wood and paper) was also available. And, in a pinch, many people add things like leather from the bindings of books to their diets.

Dire book worms, foot long and spiky, were raised much like pigs, being fed books that were poorly written.

The majority of survival also relies on the knowledge of the druids on the third floor, who taught the first adventurers how to survive. They also were the ones who came up with the loose set of laws, which include limiting the use of fire and avoiding agitating certain species.

As far as the people know, the shelves go on for miles on each level, as do the books. They use them freely, and have suspicions that they spontaneously emerge from the ground. As such, they have figured out things like how to make wearable cloth from paper.

As far as travel, walking really is the only way, since shelves, a ceiling that varies in height sometimes down to no more than six feet, and a myriad of monsters attracted to sound really hamper most other travel, which is one of the reasons so little of the place is explored. The other major reason is that since the a lot of the landmarks can be shifted around, as well as the low range of visibility, it's only too easy to get lost.

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Anonymous Sat 29 Nov 2008 02:07:00 No.3078448 Report

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>>3078394
Going between levels is difficult, since there's few connections with large differences in elevation. So, food from outside is rare, and importing anything is difficult and demanding, especially when you consider the heightened level of danger due to a large monster population.

But, there is limited trade, with rare treasures and valuable books from the library being traded for things like fruits and spices. These are usually done by powerful men and women who can handle themselves traveling through the first and second layer.

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Anonymous Sat 29 Nov 2008 02:08:00 No.3078453 Report

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In a campaign where the PCs were in the military, I had them be assigned to fight a war in some faroff place and had them take an airship to get there (Eberron-ish mage punk, though it wasn't in Eberron itself). They were attacked en route and crashed into a jungle. I had them play survivor for a while, it was pretty fun.

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