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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9198204" data-attributes="member: 2209">My favorite that I have done was when I was running a conversion of the pathfinder gothic horror themed Carrion Crown adventure path.&quot;I regret to inform you that Professor Lorrimor Jones, noted Professor of Archaeology at Lepidstadt University has died. In recognition of your relationship with Professor Jones you are asked to be a pall bearer at his funeral and the professor's daughter, the Lady Jessica, invites you to stay at the Jones estate in the Canterwall town of Ravengro during the funeral [the town is next door to the assuredly not-at-all haunted former prison that burned down fifty years ago]. You are a named beneficiary in the will. My office will hold the reading of the will one week after the funeral is completed.Your humble servant, Mathias Murdock barrister at law.&quot;I asked everybody to come up with a connection to Jones to establish why they would be asked to be pallbearers.I got the professor's butler, his college secretary, his archaeology rival, his professional grave digger, the professor's on again off again love interest, and a junior professor he had mentored.I also suggested that I would be using a bunch of famous characters as NPC roles throughout the campaign so they were invited to pick their own as a partial basis for their characters if desired, about half did.The rival was a sort of Belloq from Indiana Jones, the love interest was a bit of Ilsa from Last Crusade, and the junior professor was based on Daniel Jackson from Stargate, complete with odd theories about ancient elven Osirian alien connections.It tied in well to the adventure path, gave people some interesting hooks to work off of, their backgrounds gave me hooks to integrated into the adventure path and play off of, and everybody had a great time with it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9198204, member: 2209"] My favorite that I have done was when I was running a conversion of the pathfinder gothic horror themed Carrion Crown adventure path. "I regret to inform you that Professor Lorrimor Jones, noted Professor of Archaeology at Lepidstadt University has died. In recognition of your relationship with Professor Jones you are asked to be a pall bearer at his funeral and the professor's daughter, the Lady Jessica, invites you to stay at the Jones estate in the Canterwall town of Ravengro during the funeral [the town is next door to the assuredly not-at-all haunted former prison that burned down fifty years ago]. You are a named beneficiary in the will. My office will hold the reading of the will one week after the funeral is completed. Your humble servant, Mathias Murdock barrister at law." I asked everybody to come up with a connection to Jones to establish why they would be asked to be pallbearers. I got the professor's butler, his college secretary, his archaeology rival, his professional grave digger, the professor's on again off again love interest, and a junior professor he had mentored. I also suggested that I would be using a bunch of famous characters as NPC roles throughout the campaign so they were invited to pick their own as a partial basis for their characters if desired, about half did. The rival was a sort of Belloq from Indiana Jones, the love interest was a bit of Ilsa from Last Crusade, and the junior professor was based on Daniel Jackson from Stargate, complete with odd theories about ancient elven Osirian alien connections. It tied in well to the adventure path, gave people some interesting hooks to work off of, their backgrounds gave me hooks to integrated into the adventure path and play off of, and everybody had a great time with it. [/QUOTE]

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