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GreatLemur said:
Yeah, a wendigo is the first thing I considered as a replacement for werewolves.
Rhun said:
We're playing a kind of DnD for Dummies homebrew without levels. In general theory they're probably 6-10 level in relative power to standard 3.5 DnD characters. But I'm cool with customizing any encounters to their power level no problem, so any ideas you may have would be prefectly helpful.
Gilladian
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There's a dungeon magazine that has an adventure where the PCs are chasing a fugitive who ends up in an inn; the inn then collapses into a cavern with a link to a shadow plane. It was a good adventure and could be used as a basis for a much larger plotline.
Like, now that we have no Inn to live in, and winter is here, what are we going to do?
Or maybe instead of collapsing into caverns, it collapses into the ducts for the furnace system. Maybe powered by natural steam from hot springs. Hot springs could be inhabited by mephits or elementals or other creatures.
Sounds fun!
Like, now that we have no Inn to live in, and winter is here, what are we going to do?
Or maybe instead of collapsing into caverns, it collapses into the ducts for the furnace system. Maybe powered by natural steam from hot springs. Hot springs could be inhabited by mephits or elementals or other creatures.
Sounds fun!
freyar
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If you go with the wendigo idea, WotC has a free adventure for them here, called "Frozen Whispers." It's for 3rd level, but you could probably adapt it fairly easily.
OTOH, if your players know of your fondness for lycanthropes, you could really throw them for a loop with a tsochar from Lords of Madness.
OTOH, if your players know of your fondness for lycanthropes, you could really throw them for a loop with a tsochar from Lords of Madness.
The Human Target
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Gilladian said:
So, I'm for sure stealing the idea of an encounter in a hot spring cave system. Thats going to work out really well, and provide great contrast to the rest of the adventure.
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freyar said:
I've had that adventure downloaded for some time. Its already been an inspiration to this upcoming session. Great minds think alike!
And Lords of Madness is probably my favorite monster book. I loves me some aberrations, though I haven't gotten to use the tsochar itself yet.
I'm formulating this adventure as I type, so when I get the main points nailed down I'll post em.
For the Wendigo idea, there are stats for creatures like them: the Weren in D20 Future p221-2, and the Sasquatch in D20 Dark*Matter p20-1 and the D20 Menace Manual.
You could also throw out something along the lines of the classic movie, The Thing. Heck, add in some stuff from the John Carpenter remake.
All you have to do is take a Doppelganger and give it both the Woodling and the Feral Templates (a net +5LA from templates, as I recall). A homicidal bestial shapechanging plant should prove quite challenging. If that isn't bad enough enough, give it levels in Monk, PsyWar (with powers like Expansion) or Warmage.
You could also throw out something along the lines of the classic movie, The Thing. Heck, add in some stuff from the John Carpenter remake.
All you have to do is take a Doppelganger and give it both the Woodling and the Feral Templates (a net +5LA from templates, as I recall). A homicidal bestial shapechanging plant should prove quite challenging. If that isn't bad enough enough, give it levels in Monk, PsyWar (with powers like Expansion) or Warmage.
How about, during the depths of winter, the auroras take on a strangely beautiful and hypnotic quality at night, luring people out to a freezing doom. Villagers, especially young women, have been drawn out - some barely being saved, others perishing in the snow.
It is actually the work of a young painter's ghost who froze to death the previous winter (perhaps a suicide?), and who has grown lonely in his undeath. This particular adventure would involve a lot of background hunting (the conditions around his death), especially locating the man's corpse and returning it for burial.
It would be especially awesome if the players were staying in his old (unoccupied) house, and maybe saw some paintings of an eerie night sky that could serve as clues, especially if you drop the description nonchalantly at the beginning of their stay.
It is actually the work of a young painter's ghost who froze to death the previous winter (perhaps a suicide?), and who has grown lonely in his undeath. This particular adventure would involve a lot of background hunting (the conditions around his death), especially locating the man's corpse and returning it for burial.
It would be especially awesome if the players were staying in his old (unoccupied) house, and maybe saw some paintings of an eerie night sky that could serve as clues, especially if you drop the description nonchalantly at the beginning of their stay.
Some more ideas...
A child who is linked to the hungry spirit of the mountain unconsciously begins to channel that malevolent spirit's energies towards the Party (IOW, The Shining).
Simple cabin fever could be a hazard.
Other cannibal story tropes linked to winter & the mountains: The Donner Party, the soccer team crash-landed in the Andes (see the movie, Alive!), Ravenous (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800024170/details).
A child who is linked to the hungry spirit of the mountain unconsciously begins to channel that malevolent spirit's energies towards the Party (IOW, The Shining).
Simple cabin fever could be a hazard.
Other cannibal story tropes linked to winter & the mountains: The Donner Party, the soccer team crash-landed in the Andes (see the movie, Alive!), Ravenous (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800024170/details).
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