Island concept

[roguerouge]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071002/od_nm/alaska_rats_dc

"Rats are blamed for causing about half the extinctions of various species worldwide since the 1600s and are persistent nuisances once established," a scientist said.

 

[GreatLemur]

Ha. Rats are awesome.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Dire Rat Island. Sounds like a pretty good adventure for a low to moderate level group.

 

[krissbeth]

Please no. Nononononono... Giant centipedes and spiders were horrible enough. An island rat swarm? Nightmares. Eeeeeeeeeeeek!!!

 

[DMH]

Ha. Rats are awesome.

Yeah, right up there with mosquitos (number one killer of humans), parasitic worms, genetically damaging plastics (which you come into contact daily), brown tree snakes and zebra/quagga mussels (cause billions in damage annually).

As for the invasive concept, I tend to use it more in sci-fi settings. When I do use them in fantasy, death and misery follow with starvation, civil war and slaughter of spellcasters (who are either blamed for the invasion or not helping stop it). It isn't a fun concept.

 

[Warren Okuma]

Yeah, right up there with mosquitos (number one killer of humans), parasitic worms, genetically damaging plastics (which you come into contact daily), brown tree snakes and zebra/quagga mussels (cause billions in damage annually).

As for the invasive concept, I tend to use it more in sci-fi settings. When I do use them in fantasy, death and misery follow with starvation, civil war and slaughter of spellcasters (who are either blamed for the invasion or not helping stop it). It isn't a fun concept.

Yeah, in sci-fi settings that is gold.

 

[jdrakeh]

Ha! I've just had an afternoon of Bruno Mattei! Check out Rats: Night of Terror for some ideas on how to utilize this concept effectively not mess this concept up horribly.

 

[QuaziquestGM]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071008/od_nm/ostrich_killing_dc;_ylt=Auz5WWsDfEUW5.4jF0Qrv.wuQE4F

following links on the original page:

how about this one as another news generated adventure seed?


Put the birds in a pen as mounts for a halfling pony express service, and replace the shot gun with either a repeating cross bow wielded by an assassin or a battleaxe held by a halforc.

The hears a disturbance in the night, investigate, try to help the innocent birds and ends up fighting both them and the vengence seeker.

 

[awayfarer]

Even worse, killer shrews!

[Edit] Just thought it was funny because the movie deals with basically the same idea albeit using border collies with rug samples attached to them.

 

[Desdichado]

I don't know why, but the article doesn't come up for me. I've had other problems with links to yahoo stories too... I don't know what's going on with them the last few days.

A rat island, though---I can dig it. I'd throw some skaven in there while I was at it, though. Or the d20 equivalent from Scarred Lands. With Ron Spencer artwork!