I’m once again going to list some ideas I’ve had, maybe riff on them if I get some ideas, and set them free on the internet instead of hording them and not playing.\u00c2\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n
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1. Every adventure starts in a tavern.\u00c2\u00a0 Not every single one, but close enough.\u00c2\u00a0 Just once, I’d like a PC to be the barkeeper.<\/p>\n
2. Remember that ST:tNG where crewmembers were being abducted and examined?\u00c2\u00a0 They’d just disappear for a few hours and then get deposited back on the shit.\u00c2\u00a0 No?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s okay.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d like to rip that idea off.<\/p>\n
Wow, I’m ripping off a plot from Star Trek.\u00c2\u00a0 How original.\u00c2\u00a0 Okay, here’s the cool part: this isn’t the main plot of the game, at least not for a while.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the plot that preys on metagaming players who have seen too many tabletop games before.\u00c2\u00a0 Run this plot whenever a player misses the session.\u00c2\u00a0 If people ask where the PC is, he isn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s just gone.\u00c2\u00a0 The players will probably dismiss that as lazy GMing, but it’s actually some sort of forgetfulness magic thrown off by the kidnappers.<\/p>\n
Just run that until the players get suspicious.\u00c2\u00a0 Drop clues if you want them to go off on it longer.\u00c2\u00a0 When they finally have two people stay up on a night shift, have one of them wink out of existence.\u00c2\u00a0 Or have someone slide feet first into their now empty sleeping bag.\u00c2\u00a0 Or have some NPC accidentally show up when a PC returns.\u00c2\u00a0 When the players are able to deal with extraplanar shenanigans, reveal that they’ve been summoned into the plane of something-or-other and experimented on or forced to fight or something.<\/p>\n
3. I forgot number three.<\/p>\n
4. Play a stick up your ass paladin who doesn’t really care for anyone else, but is solely motivated by the afterlife.\u00c2\u00a0 Kinda the opposite of Michael from Dresden Files.\u00c2\u00a0 Not sure if this is a good long term idea, or just something that’ll be fun till everyone else figures out what he is.<\/p>\n
5. Play a paladin who isn’t holy enough and is doomed to fall, even though he really means well.\u00c2\u00a0 It shouldn’t be a big dramatic turn where he leaves the party and takes blackguard levels, but just someone who can’t try hard enough.\u00c2\u00a0 This is actually the most attractive paladin option I’ve ever thought of.\u00c2\u00a0 They just don’t appeal to me most of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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