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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joël of the FoS" data-source="post: 3230808" data-attributes="member: 17665">Wow, I’m amazed. Pretty cool ideas here so far. Keep them coming, it’s very interesting. I’m collecting these for a netbook, and will put your names in the credit.No. That's too awful to consider. I’ve had years of therapy to forget these critters. I hope my memory won't remember this one to haunt my nightmares.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Well it’s in the Ravenloft setting. There is this lonely island where a werebat built a lighthouse in order to wreck ships and feed from the sailors. Over the decades, a forest of wrecks now surrounds the island. Of course, in Ravenloft, most of these shipwrecks should be mundane, but now I have many cool supernatural / magical options from this thread.Now this thread is pretty cool and should be only oriented toward Ravenloft! If other DMs can get goos ideas out of it for their games, that's fun!Those are mine, removing those similar to ones in this thread:     Thunderball (from Egertus), a small passenger ship on its way to Liffe. This ship never arrived to destination and was thought lost at sea.    White Starfish (from Mordent), a scientific ship studying fisheries, which vanished in the Sea of Sorrows.     Dragon’s Gold (see RL Darklords accessory)    A merchant ship with alien flag (from another plane and dragged to the mists by the lighthouse’s beam)    Merchant boats, lots of them    A ship which cargo held something valuable for a specific party, who could ask the heroes to retrieve it. It simply could be gold and you can play on PC's greed, or more philanthropically, someone they know needs the money (for a hospice foundation, for a ransom, etc.). It could also be an artefact / magic items, or important books / documents, etc.    A Darkonese warship - why was it sunk? Why wasn’t it retrieved by the Darkonese Navy?    A perplexing artefact was recently recovered in the swamps of the Wild Lands. The explorers found many marble statues of great values. Among the findings was a hunk of corroded bronze that contained some kind of mechanism composed of many gears and wheels. The explorers first thought it was an astronomer's tool. An more thorough explanation revealed it to be far more complex, containing a sophisticated system of differential gears. Gearing of this complexity was never seen before anywhere, even in Lamordia. This item was put on a boat, but it was lost at sea. Many people wish to find this instrument and analyse it.     The characters are hired by a Pont-a-Museau man responsible for covering the loss of a ship, the Belle Marée. He explains the wreck of the merchant boat with a costly cargo was seen near île de la Tempête. He asks the players to investigate and retrieve a chest from the Captain’s room.Joël</blockquote>

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