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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psychotic Jim" data-source="post: 5493260" data-attributes="member: 547">Hmm, one fun adventure I ran may not be applicable to d&d actually was in a GURPS Goblins game.  The pcs were poor as hell lower class goblins hired as ratcatchers for a fancy dinner theater type establishment.  Underneath the stage they discovered an actress who'd been killed inadvertently by the theater owner when he was getting way too frisky.  She was pretty vengeful and implored the PCs for help, who tried to drive her away.  One of the characters had been educated in a charity (religious orphanage) school and carried a Bible with him on his person, so he tried to drive away the ghost by holding up the Bible and yelling, "The Power of Christ compels you! The Power of Christ compels you!"  Of course, goblins being the unfaithful creatures they are, didn't work, and the ghost's pleas for help weren't helping her at all.  So she tried a different tactic, offer them information they could blackmail the theater owner with.  And suddenly it was like night turned into day, they lept into it with all their hearts. Unearthing the body and going to the theater owner with blackmail on their minds, they shook him down for some hush money while simultaneously calling the police.   Then after getting their hush money, the PCs turned him in anyway and managed to scam the local authorities out of some reward money for their "good deed".  All in all, a fun session leaving the group's pockets, if not their hearts, a little bit fuller. On a more serious note, games I've played in have from time to time used the inn assassination plot as a mini-episode.  You have to be careful though with this, as too much and pcs can get to wonder, "why do I sleep here again?"  I believe Green Ronin had an adventure where the inn the pcs are staying at is put under siege by several evil cultists (A Dreadful Dawn, IIRC)- haven't used it though.Other resources include the En Route series of adventures for 3.0 and 3.X. Many of the encounters in this encounter anthology take place in taverns or other nearby urban locations.  Examples include a conman who tries to swindle the pcs out of their money and a group of commoners who panic and riot when they (and the inn) are accidentally rendered invisible by an apprentice mage's errant spell. One of the adventures in Tales of Freeport was almost entirely a series of varying subplots that happen inside of the characters' inn at once, with the PCs caught in the middle. Other ideas-a murder mystery, with the city watch locking down the inn until the culprit is found.   -a scooby doo variation on the traditional haunting- somebody is trying to scare away everybody from the gloomy tavern b/c of pirate's gold/secret cult/etc. -Once in a very rare while I hit PCs in their sleep with side treks into the plane of dreams (their minds going there while their bodies still are in the tavern.)</blockquote>

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