Ideas for stereotyped hack and slash adventures

[Olive]

So I'm going to be playing a wee bit of 3.5 D&D for a few months with a few friends and I was thinking about making this a bit of beer and pretzels hack and slash fun but I'm having a weirdly hard time coming up with hack and slash adventure ideas. I mean I can do 'orcs invade small town' till the cows come home, but I guess I'm looking for sillier and more fun ideas that still play to stereotype. D&D clichés would be good too.

Whaddaya reckon?

 

[Wraith Form]

Pretty much any Goodman Games' Dungeon Crawl Classics adventure is both old school and yet very satisfyingly well-written.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I'd agree with Wraith in regards to the Goodman Games DCC's. They seem to be exactly what you're after.

It's also good to see that Optus finally got things sorted out with you too. I had the same trouble with not being able to reach EN World.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Olive]

I'd agree with Wraith in regards to the Goodman Games DCC's. They seem to be exactly what you're after.

I've never been a module person. We never played with them in the old days and I tend to forget stuff I didn't make up myself too easily.

It's also good to see that Optus finally got things sorted out with you too. I had the same trouble with not being able to reach EN World.

Actually I finally found a pretty good and not too slow proxy: 165.228.133.10:3128

I'm convinced it's not Optus BTW.

 

[Shadowslayer]

Heroes get a message looking for adventurers in the next town over. Heroes go to the town...but no one's there. Just burned out buildings and a banner in the center square from some monstrous tribe. Find child hiding in a barrel still alive. All he knows is monsters came out of the well and took everyone.

Works even better if one PC had a relative there.

To insert some silliness, the Orcs in the dungeon in the well have been charmed by some infernal creature, and they are now addicted to pies. Only humans know how to make pie. Enslave whole town to make pie in huge underground kitchen. Must battle orcs, find creature that charmed them, rescue villagers.

A big banquet in their honor follows. No pie is served.

That's all I got.

 

[Olive]

To insert some silliness, the Orcs in the dungeon in the well have been charmed by some infernal creature, and they are now addicted to pies. Only humans know how to make pie. Enslave whole town to make pie in huge underground kitchen. Must battle orcs, find creature that charmed them, rescue villagers.

A big banquet in their honor follows. No pie is served.

That's all I got.

And you don't need much more than that. Hilarious! Nice change from my typical 'Infernal creature enslaves local political authority. Corruption ensues' plots.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I've never been a module person. We never played with them in the old days and I tend to forget stuff I didn't make up myself too easily.



Actually I finally found a pretty good and not too slow proxy: 165.228.133.10:3128

I'm convinced it's not Optus BTW.

So you still can't get on through Optus without a proxy then? It took me several months of having to use a proxy but I now have non-proxy access again. Are you sure you still can't get through without a proxy?

Olaf the Stout

 

[Olive]

So you still can't get on through Optus without a proxy then? It took me several months of having to use a proxy but I now have non-proxy access again. Are you sure you still can't get through without a proxy?

Yup, dead sure. Tried several times today cos I kept forgetting to switch over.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Yup, dead sure. Tried several times today cos I kept forgetting to switch over.

Well that sucks. I hope that whatever is wrong fixes itself up eventually for you.

As for the modules, have you given any a go lately? You might find yourself pleasantly surprised. Goodman Games have 2 DCC's that are only $2 US. You can buy them in PDF format too.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Stormborn]

Have to admit this is not my idea, I read it around here somewhere:

PCs are summoned to a town to go into the sewers/ruined dungeon of the town for typical reasons. They go in and a few days later come out. Only to discover that everythign has changed.

See, while they were down there someone else screwed up and did not prevent the Dark Realm from opening up into the material world during a total eclipse. Now this entire town has changed. Segments of the population have become undead, some suprisingly cunning, and there are demonic forces roaming the streets. Seems that this little town is somehow on a ley line that the forces of Darkness feel the need to control. Now the PCs only have one mission, survive. In addtion to the necromantically changed citizenry they have to contend with dark mages (who decide to toy with the PCs just for fun by doing things like putting delayed blast fireball runes on the backs of human children and letting the PCs "rescue" them), a group of demon worshipping orc mercenaries who have had a change of heart now that they see what happens when they get their wish and arent real sure what to do now, and the remnants of a band of overly optimistic Dudly Doright Lawful Stupid Paladins that have been dispatched by the Forces of Light and feel the need to "rescue" the PCs (and take away any weapons with which they might injure themselves) even if it means beating them into submission. Not very silly, but hack n slashy fun. If you want silly have all this be about finding the host for a demon lord on earth, a destined child who has been bread to serve as his vessel for a thousand years. Unfortunatelly for him they are about 12 years early and the vessel in question is a small sickly lisping little child that insists on carting around her blankey to teddy or somesuch even when cackling manically and ordering the genocide of entire nations.