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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DamionW" data-source="post: 2722002" data-attributes="member: 18649">There were two one-shot gaming experiences I've had which I truly enjoyed:1)  The orc/goblinoid raiding party adventure.  The usual complaint against generating an evil character/party is that you can't motivate them to stay together long enough.  Well unless your players are just immature, you can play an evil party for 4-6 hours with no problems.  Playing a hobgoblin, coming up on a village's herd of sheep and setting them on fire to run through the village screaming as a means of inspiring terror is VERY fun.  I think there should be many many more opportunities to explore evil/monstrous characters and 1-shots are perfect for that.2)  Role-playing from a hat.  At my best friend's bachelor party all of us put one character concept, three items in their inventory, a goal in life, a dark secret in separate hats and you had to pick them out to get your character.  I personally played an Elvis impersonating priest who was out to destroy all of the faeries with 16 liters of gin, some lo mein and a prayer while I was trying to hide the fact I was gay.  Other people drew lava monsters, rocks, and other crazy character ideas from the hat and we had to run in the adventure the dm ad-libbed.  That happened to be a D-Day style assault on the "Beach of Inordinate Muttonification" followed by a castle raid to overthrow a BBEG.  It was awesome and I'd do it again any time.Just some ideas.</blockquote>

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