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Message: <blockquote data-quote="infinitum3d" data-source="post: 5627655" data-attributes="member: 6667600">Found this on another site.  It's Medieval Fantasy for children, but can be altered for any genre.Start with a group of ruffians starting a fight in a tavern. (Remind the players that they need to stop them without killing. This will also be a plot hook for later.) Every full moon incredible singing would be heard from the swamp next to town. (Hint : Get some opera music, or Dead Can Dance and play that. Play something sad. ) It is rumoured that there is a fearsome beast in the Swamp. A Swamp man. The headman's daughter has decided that she absolutely loves this singer want wants to marry him and thats the end of it. So the adventurers are asked to into the swamp for the next full moon to ask the singer to come back with them. There is a lot of interesting problems here. Wear armour in a swamp? Build a raft? What is the lay of the land in the swamp? ( 3 islands? One called Stirge Island ? One called Prospector's Landing, and one called Stinky Mire?) Let the players deal with a few critter encounters. (Do they need to kill the crocadiles? Can wolves be heard? Stirges.. . gotta fight them.) The singer in question is an extremely affible Troll named Chumly who can probably be cajoled into coming to town. Green carrot nose glowing red eyes and all. He wears some scraps of fine clothing. (When questioned about himself, he'll have a sad tale and that's why he sings. His father said he was too kind, and his brothers pickled on him for it. Moral story here about being bad to other kids. He ran away and learned to read music in this old abandoned library here.) Chumly comes with the adventurers to town and is extremely shy. He' s too embarassed and doesn' t know what to do. ( Players have to work hard to get him to meet the girl.) The Headman' s daughter freaks out at the ugly hideous beast. He' s ugly and she is vain. She is not nice. Chumly stumbles off crying . (Do the players cheer him up? How?) Lastly. .. the tavern keeper has an idea.. . A singing Troll would be entertaining, and extremely handy should ruffians show up again. He works with the players to hire Chumly. The tavern is called "The Singing Troll", and Chumly lives happily ever after.</blockquote>

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