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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8477701" data-attributes="member: 27780"><p><strong><u>Dungeon Issue 40: Mar/Apr 1993</u>]</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>part 2/5</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Song of the Fens: We kick things off with a distinctly silly comedy of errors. A troll with an unusually good singing voice has moved into the swamp near an inn. The sheltered innkeeper's daughter falls in love with the singing without even seeing him, and asks the PC's to find the singer and set them up on a date. Will she still feel the same way after actually seeing his face? Can a troll find a human physically attractive either? Can they overcome the fact that he's very poorly socialised and prone to violence at the slightest offence, like most trolls. (when you have regeneration, dismemberment and being pushed off cliffs is just harmless foreplay, as many a looney tunes cartoon demonstrates) This seems like the kind of scenario where you're probably not going to get a happy ending for everyone unless you have extremely high social skills and possibly a little magic to grease the wheels, but it should be fun finding out, with opportunities for things to go off the rails at nearly every opportunity. Even when Dungeon does silly adventures, they give you much more freedom in how the wackiness plays out than Polyhedron. So I guess this is a decent enough april fool for the year, giving you plenty of opportunity to stretch your roleplaying muscles, while not precluding the option of things taking a sharp turn into tragedy. (But in a way that probably won't end the campaign.) Not for every group, but much more usable in a regular game than the latest instalment of the interminable pursuit of small, annoying canines through time, space and multiple genres.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 8477701, member: 27780"] [b][u]Dungeon Issue 40: Mar/Apr 1993[/u]][/b] part 2/5 Song of the Fens: We kick things off with a distinctly silly comedy of errors. A troll with an unusually good singing voice has moved into the swamp near an inn. The sheltered innkeeper's daughter falls in love with the singing without even seeing him, and asks the PC's to find the singer and set them up on a date. Will she still feel the same way after actually seeing his face? Can a troll find a human physically attractive either? Can they overcome the fact that he's very poorly socialised and prone to violence at the slightest offence, like most trolls. (when you have regeneration, dismemberment and being pushed off cliffs is just harmless foreplay, as many a looney tunes cartoon demonstrates) This seems like the kind of scenario where you're probably not going to get a happy ending for everyone unless you have extremely high social skills and possibly a little magic to grease the wheels, but it should be fun finding out, with opportunities for things to go off the rails at nearly every opportunity. Even when Dungeon does silly adventures, they give you much more freedom in how the wackiness plays out than Polyhedron. So I guess this is a decent enough april fool for the year, giving you plenty of opportunity to stretch your roleplaying muscles, while not precluding the option of things taking a sharp turn into tragedy. (But in a way that probably won't end the campaign.) Not for every group, but much more usable in a regular game than the latest instalment of the interminable pursuit of small, annoying canines through time, space and multiple genres. [/QUOTE]
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