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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kiznit" data-source="post: 4217205" data-attributes="member: 3994">This has been <a href="http://www.circvsmaximvs.com/showthread.php?p=657087#post657087" target="_blank">cross-posted from Circvs Maximvs</a> in the hopes of reaping the most amount of suggestions, hope people don't mind.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> So, I've got a decent take on Step 1 and Step 2 (Happy to still be taking suggestions though), so let's start Step 3.Step 3a: Let's identify things I'd really like to have in this one-shot (which is where the one-shot starts to look like a three-or-four-shot, but that's brainstorming for you). <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A zeppelin/air ship</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sky pirates</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dinosaurs</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">At least three different locales (Museum/Desert/Jungle?)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Occult Nazis</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Natives worshiping something sinister</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some sort of Puzzle</li> </ul>Step 3b: Now we look at our Spotlight Scenarios and try and flesh out a specific set piece that plays to each character's strengths. <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Quintana Smith: Has to retrieve something from a dangerous place through some sort of death-defying feat; i.e. fighting on top of a zeppelin, jumping onto a moving truck/tank/plane, navigating a perilous chasm, etc.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wang-Chung: Group is trapped and he's the only one that can fit into the crawl-space, or the mine-cart, or reach into the alcove, etc. Maybe relic gets dropped somewhere and he scrambles to get it. Maybe he has to gamble with natives.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fiona Devereaux: Besides healing injured party members, investigates museum bodies and other criminal evidence. Secretly in love with Quintana? Villain in love with her?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Umbuntu the Fearless: Is able to spiritually intimidate the natives - maybe single-combat with their leader? Motivates them to usurp against the nazis using them for slave labor? Has some sort of prophetic vision about the relic?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Black Swan: Pilots ship against the air pirates. Connected somehow with the nazis, maybe knows a secret way into their base. Tempted somehow during the adventure to betray her teammates.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Professor Cavendish: Is attacked by the nazis in the museum for something he knows/has discovered. Is forced along the adventure against his better wishes for some reason, obviously holds some sort of crucial key to the relic.</li> </ul>So just brainstorming this stuff we can already see that there's going to be some sort of relic, the nazis are probably enslaving local natives to help them dig/unearth something sinister (that the natives might worship), that the adventure will probably start in the museum somehow... and so on. So far this is a pretty effective adventure design method, if I do say so myself. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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