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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7731905" data-attributes="member: 19675">I’d start with a less ambitious screenplay than “stopping the forces of chaos”. That kind of epic stuff hasn’t worked for the previous iterations in the franchise.Let’s say...the focal characters take jobs on a merchant’s caravan or ship.  Mid-trip, the journey-masters divert to investigate something.  The “PCs” are chosen to do the initial investigation.   They find horror: dead, mutilated, half-eaten bodies among ruins of an outpost.They return to their base of operations only to find:1) likewise2) they’re abandoned3) ______________If #1 is chosen, that’s essentially Alien.  If #2 is, it could be Invasion of the Body-Snatchers, or one of those myriad storylines based on Theseus & the Minotaur- a sacrifice.  See also Drafonslayer.One of my favorite #3 plots was that they find, among other things, the desiccated body of a diplomat.  He died, not from predation- which becomes a minor plot point- but from an accidental fall in a ravine.  Among his belongings is a signed but undelivered peace treaty...Regardless, movie ends in way that sets up obvious sequel.</blockquote>