The Weekly One Million
- Thread starter Reynard
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Hey Reynard,
I've been enjoying your weekly one million threads, and I had an idea for "one million adventures", using the quest seeds in DMG and some motives, maybe a complication or two...
One Million Adventures
Quest Seed (1d6)
1- Adversaries table
2- Allies/patrons table
3- Events table
4- Items/information table
5- Locations table
6-
Adversaries Table (d10)
1- Capture
2- Compete with to accomplish another task
3- Defeat
4- Discover hidden
5- Drive away
6- Escape from
7- Hide from
8- Infiltrate
9- Redeem
10- Thwart activities or plans
Allies/Patrons Table (d6)
1- Escort to a location
2- Establish a relationship with
3- Help perform a specific task
4- Hide or protect from attack, kidnapping, or other harm
5- Rescue from existing danger
6- Settle a debt
Events (d6)
1- Arrive/stranded in a strange place
2- Deal with the aftermath
3- Flee or hide from
4- Mistaken identity
5- Prevent or stop
6- Win a contest, race, or war
Items/Information (d6)
1- Deliver to a place or person
2- Destroy, perhaps by a particular method
3- Hide
4- Protect from theft/corruption
5- Retrieve for an ally/patron
6- Recover for personal use
Location (d6)
1- Escape from
2- Explore
3- Protect from attack or damage
4- Seal off
5- Secure for another use
6- Survive in
ADVERSARY’S MOTIVE (d20)
1- Conceal the Truth
2- Conquest
3- Display Power/Prove Worth
4- Freedom
5- Fulfill an Oath
6- Greed
7- Hatred
8- Illness
9- Justice
10- Love/Longing
11- Loss and Desperation
12- Madness/Possessed
13- Misunderstanding (roll again?)
14- Order
15- Personal Power
16- Revenge
17- Self-Gratification/Crime of Passion
18- Social Change
19- Survival
20- Zealotry/Fanaticism
COMPLICATION (d20)
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I've been enjoying your weekly one million threads, and I had an idea for "one million adventures", using the quest seeds in DMG and some motives, maybe a complication or two...
One Million Adventures
Quest Seed (1d6)
1- Adversaries table
2- Allies/patrons table
3- Events table
4- Items/information table
5- Locations table
6-
Adversaries Table (d10)
1- Capture
2- Compete with to accomplish another task
3- Defeat
4- Discover hidden
5- Drive away
6- Escape from
7- Hide from
8- Infiltrate
9- Redeem
10- Thwart activities or plans
Allies/Patrons Table (d6)
1- Escort to a location
2- Establish a relationship with
3- Help perform a specific task
4- Hide or protect from attack, kidnapping, or other harm
5- Rescue from existing danger
6- Settle a debt
Events (d6)
1- Arrive/stranded in a strange place
2- Deal with the aftermath
3- Flee or hide from
4- Mistaken identity
5- Prevent or stop
6- Win a contest, race, or war
Items/Information (d6)
1- Deliver to a place or person
2- Destroy, perhaps by a particular method
3- Hide
4- Protect from theft/corruption
5- Retrieve for an ally/patron
6- Recover for personal use
Location (d6)
1- Escape from
2- Explore
3- Protect from attack or damage
4- Seal off
5- Secure for another use
6- Survive in
ADVERSARY’S MOTIVE (d20)
1- Conceal the Truth
2- Conquest
3- Display Power/Prove Worth
4- Freedom
5- Fulfill an Oath
6- Greed
7- Hatred
8- Illness
9- Justice
10- Love/Longing
11- Loss and Desperation
12- Madness/Possessed
13- Misunderstanding (roll again?)
14- Order
15- Personal Power
16- Revenge
17- Self-Gratification/Crime of Passion
18- Social Change
19- Survival
20- Zealotry/Fanaticism
COMPLICATION (d20)
?
What you've got there is a "Adventure Starter Table", because your first table will lead you only to one other subtable, which then has a complication. If I were to write a "One Million Adventures" table -- which I will; am, even, but it's really complex and difficult -- I would use something like the following categories:
Adventure Type (McGuffin Hunt, Slay!, Save the Innocent, etc...)
"Quest Giver"
Gettin There is Half the Fun (a table saying what kind of environment/terrain the PCs have to move through to get to...)
Adventure Location (subtables for different dungeon types, city neighborhoods, etc...)
Stock Enemies (by rough type: undead, humanoids, etc...)
BBEG
and, as you said, Complications (ally is really enemy, enemy is really ally, third party intrusion, etc...)
But a table for the purpose of jogging yur imagination on how to get the PCs intersted or involved isn't a terrible idea. usually, though, players will either take the bait or they won't and adventure hooks are best designed for specific groups because as the DM you know what's going to get them motivated. It isn't railraoding, it's behavior modification!
Mephistopheles
First Post
Individual threads, please.
Holy Bovine
First Post
I would prefer individual threads but one mega thread is fine with me. Or blog entries. Anything really as long as you keep making them!!!!
WhatGravitas
Explorer
Individual threads.
And for extra goodness, one thread with links to the individual threads, like Jester with his Monster Project.
Cheers, LT.
And for extra goodness, one thread with links to the individual threads, like Jester with his Monster Project.
Cheers, LT.
