Same Adventure, Different Themes

[mmadsen]

That's absolutely perfect, by the way.

Thanks, blood. (I had to find an online Planescape "cant" dictionary for that...)

(Makes me want to replace all kobolds and goblins everywhere with serpent men and stooped, degenerate ape-men, actually, but now my love for pulpy stories is showing...)

My work here is done.

I think the druid would be an evil wizard-priest worshipping the Gulthias (sp?) tree, who would get killed by the tree in some way if the PCs did everything right.

Ooh, good idea...

Now how do we manage that in D&D...

 

[The_Gneech]

That's absolutely perfect, by the way. (Makes me want to replace all kobolds and goblins everywhere with serpent men and stooped, degenerate ape-men, actually, but now my love for pulpy stories is showing...)

If you run it, I will play!

I think the druid would be an evil wizard-priest worshipping the Gulthias (sp?) tree, who would get killed by the tree in some way if the PCs did everything right.

Well, except for the "get killed" part, that's exactly what he was, wasn't he? Maybe he could be devoured alive by a swarm of twig blights...

-The Gneech

 

[Tuzenbach]

The Caves Of Chaos

You know, the main monster bit of The Keep On The Borderlands? After the party "clears out" most or all of thier first cave of "evil humanoids" they exit to find themselves surrounded by the local constabulatory of humans.....and hobgolins and elves and orcs! It seems that the "evil humanoids" that dwell in the caves have a legal right to be there. The party's just committed mass murder. Even worse - they're now being sued by the rest of the inhabitants of the neighboring caves!

Of course, the party only came to the conclusion that the Caves were inhabited by evil creatures from the human con-men who "set them up" and offered them gold.

 

[mmadsen]

Post-Apocalypse Sunless Citadel
The sunless citadel is obviously a sunken portion of a mall or apartment complex. The kobolds and goblins are warring tribes of mutants. Perhaps the kobolds are hairless mutants with a big-brained "sorceress" leading them. Does the vampiric tree need an origin story, or is it just another awful mutation?

The dire rats certainly fit.