Plagues, Diseases and an abandoned town

[Angelsboi]

My Players KEEP AWAY!!!!!!!!!


















































Ok now that thats done ...

My PCs have happened upon a small town of globe (im thinking hamlet). They have been ambushed by a pack of wolves who have the Plague Carrier template (WOTC Site). Its surrounded by some trees and nestled amid some hills.

Im trying to think of what to put in the town and how to make an adventure out of it. Ideas?

 

[MarauderX]

I am thinking.... Ninja Scroll. The instead of having the 9 devils of Kimone, just have a group of bandits that are trying to clear out the public so they can move in and sack the town to supply their hidden army. If you see the movie, you will get a ton of ideas for how the town would be layed out to give that spooky aspect.

 

[Angelsboi]

i dont have time to track Ninja Scroll down and watch it.

 

[Golandrinel]

How about arriving to find the inhabitants all dead (or near death) the plague has brought them to the brink of ruination ... but something else, something unnatural is taking advantage of the villagers poor state of health and is feeding on them ... a vampire might suit....

[edited due to yet another silly typo]

 

[Angelsboi]

that might work. But would a vampire be living in a small hamlet? If not, where did it come from? Could 3 4th level creatures fight it and win?

I know for one of the NPCs they are going to face a Druid 3/Ranger 3

I could twist it but i do want to focus on the plague as that is the main thing going on in story right now.

 

[Golandrinel]

Perhaps you could have it that the vampire is nomadic in it's behaviour brings the plague to villages in the form of it's rat / bat / wolf followers so as to obtain an easy food source.... you would only have to reveal this at the end of the module and even then you need not have them fight the vampire. Anyhow, it doesn't have to be a vampire, your druid guy might be doing it to punish the village for cutting down his trees!

 

[BV210]

If you want a cool "abandoned town" adventure, check out "The Dark Place" from Dungeon #48 (I think). A summoned yugoloth has decimated the place and is thrilled to see the party arrive.

 

[Dinkeldog]

I moved it. Any wonder why?

 

[Angelsboi]

ok ...

1) Dont have Dungeon 48.

2) The druid is a woman. She is a worshipper of Vaath, the god of plagues. She is working under a young man (A PCs brother) who holds an artifact (He's mentally defficient). She's not about revenge on destroyed trees, shes working for money and i havent the foggiest on the other reason ...

 

[MarauderX]

How about revenge because she is a social outcast and/or megalomaniac? It worked with well with a lich that I had that was withering away a section of forests, and he had a pretty decent sized undead army worked up that would ambush those that entered the 'dark woods'. The lich had researched emanating magic that prevented druids from using any of the trees to their advantage (there was a PC druid that was getting rather frustrated).

Of course this lich had multiple layers to him (multiple personalities) and would change his mind on a whim although it would mess up plans he had been laying down for decades, and it was this that the players had to make him do to keep screwing up that ended his attempts to take over the world.

The lich poisoned things (like the town well, grain stores, animals) so that it would produce more bodies, hence more undead, and the PCs came across a dying village that was yet to be raised as zombie warriors. They fought their way up the undead food chain to face him, and they were smart enough to use sneek up on him and learn about him a bit more and they used trickery and good role playing to talk him into wasting spells so that they could take him instead of attacking him outright.

That was what I ran for a string of adventures in 2E, and I hope it helps.