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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Baphomet" data-source="post: 5301157" data-attributes="member: 94455">Such a great thread for ideas here. Honestly my usual framework is probably super lame but its always worked for me... I pick a monster I love and make an adventure around it. For instance lets pick Fire Giants. (This is an adventure I made for 3rd edition set in the forgotten realms but the premise still works here and this is how I came up with it) Ok Firegiants awesome, fun monsters to use. We can have warriors and shamans and pet trolls, enslaved ogres, gnolls and imps and a few fireish traps.... maybe they are in league with some devils? So where to put them... hmm ruins, a volcano setting, some mountains... hmmm lets be different and have it be in a temple setting. The characters have to attack a well fortified temple fortress head on! But why? ...... hmmm well lets make it a temple of kossuth (FR) built into a cliffside and the high priest (whos human) and recent staff were further excavating into the mountain to make the temple larger down below when they unearthed an arncient crown of a long dead dwarven empire, the crown holds the soul of a powefull devil that was imprisoned in it thousands of years ago. The human highpriest gets corrupted, driven insane and then possessed by this artifact. It makes him completly immune to any fire attacks and augments his fire powers. As an artificat it can have several other abilitys or whatnot but this is fine wnough for now. So the priest is now insane/evil/ mostly possessed (and extremley powerfull) he sacrifices most of the other clergy members and turns them into undead. The local fire giant tribe (smallish tribe) was then subjugated by him as might makes right and he takes leadership and moves them all into the temple where they form a very elite raiding group. Hooks are other kossuth temples finding out the truth of this and not being strong enough to stop the new faction without hired assistance. Or perhaps the raiders enslave a local village, or the characters are hired by a powerfull demon in guise of a mortal who has been searching for this artifact (and his imprisoned nemesis soon to be slave) for many years and the recent emergence of the item has become known to him. Blah anyways thats kinda my brainstorming sessions I start with a cool monster/villian/location and go from there. Usually its just a monster thats sparks the ideas.</blockquote>

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