I'm looking to start running a DS game in a few months & wanted to get some of the groundwork laid out early.
Can anyone point me in the right direction for Adventures/ Adventure Ideas that are generic enough not to require a specific citystae/region or ones that are not for DS originaly but that could be transplanted into the DS world with a little muddling & tweeking?
Thanks for any info you folks can give me!!
Slingbld~
1) Start them off in a small trade village. The name doesn't really matter and you can decide its location/who runs it later. Something is coming to destroy the city. This can be raiders, monster(s), and so on. The best option is to simply go with something natural, like a sandstorm of legend, that will bury the entire village no matter what the PCs do. Maybe the storm has unnatural origins? If so, why?
2) Start them off in an ex-slave village. This may explain some of the skills the PCs have, especially magic, and will give them a lot of different directions to go. Either someone is extorting the village (threatening to reveal its location) or, worse, a city-state has discovered the village and is now raiding it for much-needed slaves.
3) Start them off "on the road." They need to deliver some "thing" to someone either in a trade village or fort. What it is and where it's going can lead to bigger and better things.
Hope that helps.
Say that really fast "Dwelves dwell in deserts" :D
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...I'm on different drugs, now.
1) Start them off in a small trade village. The name doesn't really matter and you can decide its location/who runs it later. Something is coming to destroy the city. This can be raiders, monster(s), and so on. The best option is to simply go with something natural, like a sandstorm of legend, that will bury the entire village no matter what the PCs do. Maybe the storm has unnatural origins? If so, why?
That's one of the ideas I had.
Another is to transport them from the "Realms" and into the Athas reality.
I'm also interrested in any adventures that may have been published that would not be too hard to bring over into the DS setting.
Any ideas 'bout those?
Slingbld~
Shadowrun adventures actually convert nicely, believe it or not.
Ohh, with all the balician templars called Mr. Johnson... :D
Care to give an example? I like to learn exotic things...
I'm also interrested in any adventures that may have been published that would not be too hard to bring over into the DS setting.
Any ideas 'bout those?
Slingbld~
Try the free adventures for download on the Wizards' webpage. After just doing a quick review how about:
The Burning Plague
Change the kobolds to something from Athas, maybe Tari. Make the main villian a gith cleric.
Set it in a ex-slave village that characters live in. Or have it be a client-village of one of the merchant houses. The merchants hire the party to stop the plague and reopen the mine.
Dry spell
The bandits have destroyed a oasis or two, instead of lakes.
Eye of the Sun
Maybe yuan-ti sun priests are behind it all.
Into the Frozen Wastes
Despite the name this could be set in the silt sea or the sandy wastes. Replace the druid with a templar, and the villian with a defiler or some athasian monster.
Just some suggestions.
Try the free adventures for download on the Wizards' webpage.
Excuse me while I smack myself in the forehead!
Thanks for the tips!
I'll also look into teh Shadowrun ones
Keep 'em commin'!
I doubt I'm the only one here that wants to know this stuff!
Slingbld~
Care to give an example? I like to learn exotic things...
I'm having a hard time just thinking of one off the top of my head, so I'll go with Dreamchipper (that old standby).
Instead of chips, it's psionic devices owned by an SK. During the fall of Tyr, you could say that these thieves break in and steal them. Three thieves, three "chips." What the burglers don't know is that the devices contain personalities of ancient and loyal warriors of Kalak. Through the devices, they are able to control their new "owners." They gather power around them using the knowledge of several thousand years.
The PCs need to get the devices either for a Templar, a noble, or maybe the Veiled Alliance or the Order. Endless fun.
2) On the run from slavers, the PCs join a caravan heading out of [city-state of choice], heading towards [village of choice]. Along the way, marauders from [slave tribe of choice] raid the caravan, thinking to seize it's goods. The PCs help fight off the marauders, only to recognize one of them: His sister, who had disappeared years ago! The PCs must now make a choice: Track the PC's sister down, or let her go on with the life she's chosen.
3) A monastery in [village of choice] has been studying the application of psionics towards generating rain. The nobles of [evil noble House of choice] has long coveted this research. The PCs, while stopping off in the village, get caught in the crossfire, as the evil nobles launch their scheme to get a hold of the monastery's secrets. Which side will they choose?
4) A ruined city has been uncovered by the sifting sands! The race is on from a dozen quarters in [nearby city-state of choice] to plunder the ruins and discover its treasure.
5) The [material of choice] mines in [city-state of choice] have mysteriously become haunted, and many slave miners die horrid deaths. Templars catch the PCs at a "crime" and tell them: Either clear the mines of whatever is haunting them, or the PCs will become mining slaves!
--that's just off the top o' my head NB