Writing an Adventure

[Sir Elton]

I'm writing an Adventure set in Atlantis (GURPS Atlantis provides all the World Setting I need). Apparently, as much interest has been generated on Rune Gate (my Stargate takeoff) no one wants to play.

I'm writing the adventure using the format found in Burning Shaolin to get my practice up and about writing movie scripts. It's set around the foundation of the City of Atlantis; specifically the building of the first pyramid. It's just a modest sized pyramid. It's a Romance adventure: the kind of feel you find in an Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel.

What I'm asking about is simple. Do you want to be suprised? Or is there something specifically you want to see? It will be written using advanced d20 magic as a resource.

 

[Crothian]

Being surprised is good.

 

[Sir Elton]

GREAT! Then I'll make sure you are suprised, Crothian.

 

[Crothian]

As long as that's not you waiting to jump out from my closet......

 

[Sir Elton]

* Booo! *

 

[Drawmack]

It depends on the mood. I definately do not want to be surprised if I am playing my way through a mystery, I want the clues to step me to a single logical conclusion which leads to a system dependant ending (in DnD its a battle, in other systems it could be arrest etc.). OTOH if I'm playing something that borders on archaic or insane mostly just a fun system (like ORK!) then sure suprise away

 

[Sir Elton]

It depends on the mood. I definately do not want to be surprised if I am playing my way through a mystery, I want the clues to step me to a single logical conclusion which leads to a system dependant ending (in DnD its a battle, in other systems it could be arrest etc.). OTOH if I'm playing something that borders on archaic or insane mostly just a fun system (like ORK!) then sure suprise away

Well, after watching a bit of Battlestar Galactica (re-imagined) I was asking about content rather than mood. BSG is much more of a drama than the Original Series had been. It's very gray, from what I've been reading of the spoilers. With Glen L. Larson on the helm as consulting producer it's still has a lot of the original series in it.

Anyway, I thought that the adventure should be about Atlantis' founding. I dare say, it's going to be suitably dramatic. Especially watching BSG and the torture rape scene, I figure that a plague subplot in the adventure would be suitably dramatic, especially when the Technology is Iron Age, without indoor plumbing. Granted, the Atlantean surgeons would be able to do 180 general surgical procedures. I've decided that they don't have a good theory of pathology.