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<blockquote data-quote="Noctem" data-source="post: 6736007" data-attributes="member: 6801315"><p>I did this one year and it was quite a bit of fun. Have everyone start in a tavern as a peasant. Then suddenly the town gets attacked by demonic spirits which jump into people and transform them into random monsters. Have 20 monsters ready of around the same level. Have all the players roll a d20 to select a random monster they transform into and give them "character sheets" of the monsters and the abilities they have including any special ones you want. Then have them be the bad guys as they go through the town and complete objectives like destroying the main gate, killing innocent people, fighting off the town guard, destroying the church (which is where lots of people have gathered since it's a safe haven against monsters or so they think..), invade the castle, etc.. If they die have the demonic spirit inhabiting the body jump into another nearby innocent person and make them roll on the d20 again. Basically they work together because the demon spirits work together toward the common goal of freeing the big bad. Kill enough innnocent people to get bonus abilities and that sort of thing. It was lots of fun and I have people ask me to run it every year now.</p><p></p><p> If you don't feel like doing a one-off, I would suggest having everyone go to sleep in the fields of the dead and then having a sort of vision / dream where all of the above takes place. Once they wake up after killing the king and queen (royal blood is the final requirement to free the big bad) you could have it be an adventure hook into something else. Like either investigating the dream they had together, researching the past, trying to prevent this from happening if it was a vision of later events, etc.. or combine, it can serve multiple purposes. Or it could just be a good reason not to sleep in the fields of the dead again. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Noctem, post: 6736007, member: 6801315"] I did this one year and it was quite a bit of fun. Have everyone start in a tavern as a peasant. Then suddenly the town gets attacked by demonic spirits which jump into people and transform them into random monsters. Have 20 monsters ready of around the same level. Have all the players roll a d20 to select a random monster they transform into and give them "character sheets" of the monsters and the abilities they have including any special ones you want. Then have them be the bad guys as they go through the town and complete objectives like destroying the main gate, killing innocent people, fighting off the town guard, destroying the church (which is where lots of people have gathered since it's a safe haven against monsters or so they think..), invade the castle, etc.. If they die have the demonic spirit inhabiting the body jump into another nearby innocent person and make them roll on the d20 again. Basically they work together because the demon spirits work together toward the common goal of freeing the big bad. Kill enough innnocent people to get bonus abilities and that sort of thing. It was lots of fun and I have people ask me to run it every year now. If you don't feel like doing a one-off, I would suggest having everyone go to sleep in the fields of the dead and then having a sort of vision / dream where all of the above takes place. Once they wake up after killing the king and queen (royal blood is the final requirement to free the big bad) you could have it be an adventure hook into something else. Like either investigating the dream they had together, researching the past, trying to prevent this from happening if it was a vision of later events, etc.. or combine, it can serve multiple purposes. Or it could just be a good reason not to sleep in the fields of the dead again. :) [/QUOTE]
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