[1-On-1 D&D] PLOT IDEAS NEEDED!! Help?

[LostSoul]

Well there are three hags that live in the swamp who have some cockatrices as their pets.

The children are not dead. Just coming back with no memories and a little sliced up

I recommend using the three hags as a source of information. It could be an adventure or two just getting them to tell the PC a riddle.

 

[Angelsboi]

i was actually thinking about the hags (hag template from Ravenloft) have a couple people in town under their spell (Charm Person and the CC II Hexed template) who are kidnapping the children.

The PC and NPC can fight the hexed creatures and find out they werent acting of their own accord.

 

[LostSoul]

i was actually thinking about the hags (hag template from Ravenloft) have a couple people in town under their spell (Charm Person and the CC II Hexed template) who are kidnapping the children.

The PC and NPC can fight the hexed creatures and find out they werent acting of their own accord.

Yeah, but that's so straight-forward. Once the PC finds out that there are Hags in the forest, he's going to think that they are responsible. (Baba Yaga and all.) And I think it works better if the townspeople are doing malicious things out of thier own accord - not innocent victims of an Enchantment spell. As though everyone in town knows what's going on but are all in denial about it. They just don't want to talk about it or face facts.

 

[Angelsboi]

oh really? Whats to have them know there are hags in the forest? Thats actually the plot for the first buffy episode (except the master = hags and the hexed creatures = vampires).

Having a townful of malicious people killing kids doesnt strike the theme of the campaign. Besides ... hes here b/c there is supposed to be someone or something here that holds the key to his amnesia and i think i JUST figured out what it is!!!

 

[LostSoul]

oh really? Whats to have them know there are hags in the forest? Thats actually the plot for the first buffy episode (except the master = hags and the hexed creatures = vampires).

Having a townful of malicious people killing kids doesnt strike the theme of the campaign. Besides ... hes here b/c there is supposed to be someone or something here that holds the key to his amnesia and i think i JUST figured out what it is!!!

I wasn't proposing people killing the kids... just letting it happen because they were afraid of something worse. But if that doesn't fit your campaign, cool, I hope it gave you some inspiration.

re: the hags. The reason I didn't really like the hag idea was because I didn't think that it made the problem (the kids disappearing, being mutilated, etc) personal to the PC. You know, it didn't expose any of the PC's personal qualities or whatever. Maybe it does, though, since I don't know the PC.

But hey, I guess I was going with the "demons lurk in all of us" theme and it doesn't fit your campaign. That's cool. This thread has given me some ideas for my own game...

 

[Angelsboi]

His amnesia stems from the Darkenshire thread below. The world is covered in patches of mist and its b/c of some people destroying the Shadow Planes.

Ill wait here while you read it:

World Hook
The land is covered with random patches of mist

World Secret
The Plane of Shadows is metaphysically sick and its sending mist through rips and tears hoping to get someone to fix it. This opens a world of ideas on planehlopping and Ravenloft.

PCs Homebase
A medium-sized village that is surrounded by mist. No name for the villiage.

World Secret
A group of adventurers went off to stop the mist. Two of the survivors came back and settled down and had a child. A year and half later, the father died under mysterious circumstances. Another year and a half later, the mother passed away leaving her child behind in the orphanage. The 8-year-old girl is being stalked by the 'Shadow Man.'


Granted i have to make her like 15 now (shes a hafling). The dwarf was a part of the original group and she will recognize him.

The demons in all of us theme is cool but this is a very small town who have their graveyard 3 miles north in the woods for fear of the undead. besides, he is *amnesiac*. What is GOING to be personal to him?