Ravenloft adventure design - Wizard of Oz

Sandain

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Hello,

My eldest friend moved to another city awhile ago and now DM's a group. (*sniff* the kids grow up so fast, it seems like only yesterday he was rolling up a D&D basic Elf *sniff*)

He is running a Ravenloft Campaign and his PC's are around Lvl 7. he heard this song by the Scissor Sisters and was inspired to make a twisted evil version of the Wizard of Oz.

He asked for ideas but all I could think of was a Pennegalen for the Queen.

I would love to pas on your collective ideas to him.

Wizard of Oz song lyrics

Once there was a man

who had a little too much

time on his hands.

He never stopped to think that he was getting older.

And when his night came to an end,

he tried to grasp for his last friend

and pretend that he could wish himself health on a 4-leaf clover.



He said: Is this the return to Oz?

The grass is dead, the gold is brown <-Describes the base landscape

and the sky has claws.

There's a wind-up man walking round and round. <-Demented golem/effigy

What once was emerald city is now a crystal town. <-The local village in
its crap state



3 'o' clock in the morning,

You get a phone call from the Queen

With a hundred of heads <-Queen perhaps is a pennangglan or something or
has lots of them as pets?

she says that they're all dead.

She tried the last one on it couldn't speak fell off <-maybe shes one of
those undead that puts new heads on her body. Or was that specifically
a personality.

and now she just wanders the halls

thinkin' nothing, thinkin' nothing at all...



She said: Is this the return to Oz?

The grass is dead, the gold is brown

and the sky has claws.

There's a wind-up man walking round and round

What once was emerald city is now a crystal town.



The wheelie's are pavement

and the Skeksis at the rave meant to hide,

deep inside their sunken faces and their wild rolling eyes, <-general
populace crazed undead or just crazed

But their countless words reveal that they can no longer feel

Love or sex appeal

The patchwork girl has come to cinch the deal <-zombie golem with brains
that tries to seduce or destroy party?



To return to Oz, we fled the world with smiles and clenching jaws

Please help me friend from coming down

I've lost my place and now it can't be found



Is this the return to Oz?

The grass is dead, the gold is brown

and the sky has claws.

There's a wind-up man walking round and round

What once was emerald city is now a crystal town.
 

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For inspiration, he could always read Wicked by Gregory Maguire. It's a biography of the Wicked Witch of the West, describing her birth and life in Oz before Dorothy's appearence. Skip the recent Broadway musical adaptation--it's crap.

Nick Pendrell ran an online game for several years called Bohavia. At one point, the party wound up in Oz. If you want to read about it, the Oz portion of the story starts at Chapter 300 of his "The Story Thus Far" section on his web page. I don't think he ever finished posting the story online, but the Oz section does finish up around chapter 316.

It might give your friend some more ideas on how to run a game in Oz.
 

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