As we near Thanksgiving, I feel it is my obligation to pad this sad little menagerie of failure that is our gaming blog, as the rest of you have yet to pony up and give something to the community (of course Kyle is exempt from this verbal thrashing.) I am only one man, people. While I certainly am capable of providing content for the blog, much of it would be impertinent and, frankly, boring to behold.
Still, while you all sit back and enjoy watching this vessel of ideas sink beneath the black fathoms, this ol' captain's not letting it go down without a fight. So, ha, pansies.
Anyway. I'm starting a few newbies on the hobby in two weeks, and I figured I could squeeze some help from you sods. That's right, I insult then request. That's how I's be doing mah bidness.
When we start our first gathering on the 17th, I intend to go on a long diatribe dispelling many misconceptions of the genre; namely, class association (Conan's a Rogue) , time-period confusion (it's Grecian-Roman fantasy instead of Medieval) and spell system haziness (spell-components are a joke).
After I'm done being an idiot and after they're done asking me stupid questions such as "Can I be a Fire demon?," I intend to do a lengthy adventure that should take them up to 4th or 5th level.
This is what I've got planned so far.
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The Bronze Colossus
For generations, the lands of Corsinia were menaced by the Bronze Colossus. This immense marvel of machinery and engineering was a moving mountain styled in human features. It could level cities with one swipe of its gigantic arms, and did so rather frequently.
A few hundred years ago, however, the machine broke down and sank underneath the earth, so that only its 20-meter head was the only thing left aboveground. As things would have it, people began to venture inside the hollow Colossus in search of knowledge and valuables tucked away in its depths.
They would be surprised to know that while the Bronze Colossus had stopped destroying their houses, the machinery inside continued to run. This lead to an awful lot of deaths, so people stopped bothering to go inside it. Some of what was inside was taken, but what lay farther beneath still remains to be taken by those stupid enough to venture inward.
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The placed would be laden with "traps" that are just the moving parts of the Colossus, such as gears and burst piping. The major "treasures" would be the heart of the machine (a magical urn that spreads fluid into the bronze "veins" coursing throughout the entire structure), the fire-wrought engines placed at each joint (literally a big bunch of magical fire put under the pipes to heat the fluid to create steam that pushed rods, and in turn, the gears that moved the colossus).
Any suggestions? What would you guys want to see out of an adventure like this?
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Yeah do a biot off Greek mythology, bring in a lot of riddles and puzzles for the greek would love that. And Lets face it they made that bitch. As to what you say I'm working on a revision to something I had thought of. I just don't post cause I'm not to sure where I'm going with it yet. And that no one replies to anything on here but me and you. Oh yeah Tom wants to talk to you he's having Cp problems get his number from Cody. MAybe wqe can chat later outie.
hmmm... perhaps some kind of evil plot by some insane wizard to unearth the colossus and use it once again to destroy the world... you know, some insane plot... think of it, lets say he succeeds and the thing rises once again, then the PC's would have to battle him in a moving colossus, and then they have to destroy it and get out before the whole thing collapses and kills them. Sounds epic to me.
'd like to base this off of what Cody said. Have it so when the colossus is moving they have to fight on it. LIke via ropes and what nought have them running across killing peons as they make thier way toi the top to stop said mad man. That would be awesome.
I like the idea of encountering an infestation of vermin in one of the limbs or something. Lots and lots of skittering of legs or flapping of tiny legs in a small, claustrophobic space. Think mynocks.
And anything that reminds me of Shadow of the Colossus is aces in my book. It is the second best game ever made, after all. (ZOE is the first)
I'm planning this to be more episodic than our usual campaigns. I'm tired, man. I don't have the drive to write a story alongside the one I'm already writing. I'm forming adventures around a single idea, and that's it.
That said, I'm not sure how much I want in the "recurring ideas" field. This first adventure is it for the colossus. The next villain-of-the-week will be something completely unrelated. This is me trying to distill the "classic" D&D into as pure a form as I can get. The players are lazing about, some dude comes and muddies up their drapery, and they go to his lair and stab him in the face and steal his stuff. After that, they're just waiting for the next chump to present himself for face-stabbing.
I probably should have explained that before asking for help... now you've presented an idea I was going to use again in the Agartha campaign. (I'd done it before with the kraken...) Thanks, Cody. You've ruined it for everybody.
YES!!! I was the only one directly referenced!!!! I rock! But seriously... yeah, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Alex, Kyle, you're off the hook.
This one's gonna be in a lot of anguish, however. I hope you've brought ointment.
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