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<blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 4207416" data-attributes="member: 2">I agree that a dungeon crawl isn't the best use of a one-shot. They're too static for my taste, so I try to stay away from location-based scenarios unless I have a really, really good plot behind them.Instead, I try to think cinematically. What seems really heroic? For your first con game, stick to a format that you know is fun for you. One example (riffing off the dungeon-inspired-by-aliens) is a rescue mission for the Princess. Posit: a rival group of adventurers to the PCs brought a bizarre item as a gift for the King. It turned out to be an alienist seed for the Far Realms, and now the entire palace is taken over by a revolting and unnatural pocket of kaorti-reality. The King's advisor, innocent for once, tells the group that according to divinations they have a very short time to save the &quot;flower of the nation&quot; - the princess. They're snuck in through the dungeons, and need to make a run to the Princess's room. the advisor gives them keys and a map to the castle's secret passages, but the rival adventures (and the now transformed royals) try to stop them along the way.It's a reverse dungeon!And meanwhile, the far realms affect gets worse and worse as the castle slips away, and time's awasting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Piratecat, post: 4207416, member: 2"] I agree that a dungeon crawl isn't the best use of a one-shot. They're too static for my taste, so I try to stay away from location-based scenarios unless I have a really, really good plot behind them. Instead, I try to think cinematically. What seems really heroic? For your first con game, stick to a format that you know is fun for you. One example (riffing off the dungeon-inspired-by-aliens) is a rescue mission for the Princess. Posit: a rival group of adventurers to the PCs brought a bizarre item as a gift for the King. It turned out to be an alienist seed for the Far Realms, and now the entire palace is taken over by a revolting and unnatural pocket of kaorti-reality. The King's advisor, innocent for once, tells the group that according to divinations they have a very short time to save the "flower of the nation" - the princess. They're snuck in through the dungeons, and need to make a run to the Princess's room. the advisor gives them keys and a map to the castle's secret passages, but the rival adventures (and the now transformed royals) try to stop them along the way. It's a reverse dungeon! And meanwhile, the far realms affect gets worse and worse as the castle slips away, and time's awasting. [/QUOTE]

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