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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 3073096" data-attributes="member: 15538">Even if there are not only so many plots, you sure do run into the same ones a lot.But seriously, you could use a Call of Cthulhu adventure. It would just end with a boss fight instead of the insane asylum. Any time I get stuck for a D&D adventure idea, I just think about scenes from Star Wars, start replacing characters with analogs, and work my way backwards to how that scene came about. Like, hmm, Darth Maul is a tough guy, a hobgoblin with a two-bladed sword would be cool, we'll keep the cloak, lose the tattoos.... he works for an evil old guy, so this guy should, too.... lich would be to obvious, how about a rakshasa? So then we need a battle in a perilous locale, the inside of a castle is fine... how about that ironworks room from Legend of Drunken Master? So the PCs are rescuing important NPCs from inside the castle... princesses are overdone, so let's go with a halfling merchant.In general, once you've made a few accomidations, the overt resemblance to the original is gone.And that definitely applies to the OP. Sure, you can use an adventure by scratching out "Bane" and writing in the name of a different deity. But just doing that changes the adventure. Every name change, every geographic difference alters the context of the adventure. It's not that the settings are indistinguishable, just that games set in the various worlds all gravitate toward a certain adventuring paradigm. That has partly to do with cultural tradition, partly with game mechanics, and partly with the fact that various worlds do have some similarities.</blockquote>

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