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Aug 10, 2014 08:29PM
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me. whaddya wanna do? im up for fantasy, romance, or high school settings.
Theme Action/AdventureThis is the most common and straightforward sort of adventure there is. In the Action/Adventure scenario, you present your characters with a task and then confront them with obstacles to overcome in order to accomplish the task successfully.
Goal Survive Environment
The characters could end up in a hostile environment which they must cross -- a desert, a jungle, or other hostile setting. In the course of the adventure they'll need to find food and water, resist the elements, and perhaps fight off attacks of the natives.
Story Hook Pressing Buttons
As a general story-hook approach, think about the player-character -- his personal goals and his personal dislikes. If the hero is pursuing a specific goal, you have one of the minor villains, as a side-effect of the villain's master plan, thwart the hero's latest step towards that goal. Alternatively, if there's something the hero truly hates to see, have it happen -- and have the villains be responsible.
Plot Geographic Progression
This is the simplest sort of adventure plot. The heroes have an area to investigate or travel through; they have encounters based on where they are. For instance, the traditional dungeon, where monsters are tied to specific rooms or areas. Or, if the heroes are travelling along a narrow valley or through an enchanted forest, they might suffer ambushes and other encounters fixed to various points along their travel plan. The plot, then, is getting to the villain by surviving the intervening obstacle encounters.
Climax Chase to Ground
First, you have the Heroes Chasing the Villain. The villain, after a series of encounters with the heroes, is running to safety, to some place where he can acquire more power, or to somehwere he can accomplish some dread purpose such as assassination or mass murder. The heroes chase him, have to deal with the obstacles he leaves behind, and finally catch up to him before or just as he reaches his goal. Here, we have the final duel between the villains forces and the heroes. Second, you have the Villain Chasing the Heroes. Often, in a story like this, the heroes have found out how to defeat the villain -- such as getting to a particular temple and conducting a particular ritual. The villain chases them all through their quest, catching up to them just as they're commenciing their ritual; they must, with heroic effort, conclude the ritual while suffering his attacks. Third, you have the Master Villain's Sudden Escape Attempt. This takes place in adventures where the Master Villain's identity is unknown until the end. His identity is revealed and he makes a sudden bolt for freedom; the heroes give chase. This usually results in a dangerous foot-chase through nasty terrain -- such as across rooftops, through the dungeons, or across an active battlefield.
General Setting Cosmopolitan City
Most of the story takes place in a large, sophisticated city; center the villain's plot and activities around that city. This setting is best suited to adventures involving more people than monsters; most of your villains should be human or demi-human.
Specific Setting I Classic Dungeon
This would be the standard monster-filled labyrinth; perhaps it's a nesting ground for the master villain's monster troops.
Specific Setting II Palace of the King
The heroes could be here for many, many different reasons: Trying to get a favor from the ruler, part of some nobleman's retinue, members of the palace guard, sneaking in to save the ruler from assassins, sneaking in to assassinate the ruler, thrown into the dungeon for crimes they did or didn't commit, etc.
Master Villain Destroyer
This villain is like the Corruptor, except that he likes destroying instead of corrupting. He operates like the Conqueror, moving in his armies -- often nonhuman or monstrous armies -- and destroying everything in sight. Again, the Destroyer could easily be an evil god or demon, meaning the heroes wil have to find his weakness in order to thwart his current plan.
Minor Villain I Chief Assassin
The Chief Assassin is the favorite killer of the Master Villain. The Assassin works mostly in the field, first killing witnesses who might prove harmful to his master, then zeroing in on the player-characters. He usually meets his end before the adventure's climax, but he may taken one of the heroes down with him.
Minor Villain II Chief Assassin
The Chief Assassin is the favorite killer of the Master Villain. The Assassin works mostly in the field, first killing witnesses who might prove harmful to his master, then zeroing in on the player-characters. He usually meets his end before the adventure's climax, but he may taken one of the heroes down with him.
Ally/Neutral Inquisitive Chronicler
This character is a historian who wishes to accompany the heroes to record their exploits. He constantly pries into the heroes' backgrounds, asking questions that are none of his business, as the adventure continues.
Monster Encounter King Beast
At some point in their adventure, the heroes run across a King Beast -- some enormous, intelligent monster (which speaks the Common tongue) which is the leader of its species. Perhaps it needs help; if the heroes help it they'll earn themselves a favor which the King Beast will repay at some later time in the adventure. Perhaps the heroes are in deadly danger and need help; the King Beast can be persuaded to help, but only in return for a deed or favor in the future.
Character Encounter Thief
At some point in their adventure, the heroes have a run-in with thieves.
Deathtrap Animal Pit
This is a classic trap of the adventure genre: The heroes (perhaps just one hero) are dropped into a pit filled with dangerous animals -- snakes, lions, bears, whatever. They must either fight the beasts or delay them until they can escape -- climb back out, open a secret door, break down a wall, have a rope lowered by friends above, etc.
Chase Special Terrain
You can make any chase more memorable by having it take place in a setting to which it is utterly unsuited. For instance, horse chases are fine and dramatic when they take place through the forest, out in the open plains, or along a road -- but they become diabolical when they take place inside the Royal Palace or in dangerous, labrynthine, treacherous catacombs.
Omen/Prophesy Innocent Fulfills Prophecy
An innocent could fulfill a prophecy -- one which endangers his/her life. This innocent might, for instance, be the one who is supposed to slay the king, but is not a mighty adventurer able to protect himself from the king; the heroes may find themselves sheltering and helping this poor dupe.
Secret Weakness Element
The Master Villain can be banished, dispelled, killed, or otherwise defeated by some of element or item. The Master Villain tries to get rid of all the examples of this element in his vicinity; he doesn't let his minions carry it or bring it into his presence. But he's not stupid; he doesn't announce to the world what his weakness is. He tries to hide his concern within another command. If he's allergic to red roses, for instance, he orders all "things of beauty" destroyed within miles of his abode.
Special Condition Time Limit
Finally, the most obvious condition to place on an adventure is to give it a time limit. If the Master Villain is going to conclude his evil spell in only three days, and his citadel is three hard days' riding away, then the heroes are going to be on the go all throughout the adventure -- with little time to rest, plan, gather allies, or anything except get to where they're going.
Moral Quandry Friend Quandry
At a critical point in the story, one of the campaign's NPCs makes an impossible demand of one of the heroes.
Red Herring Lying Rumor
This is the worst and most useful type of red herring -- the interesting rumor which just happens to be false. In adventures of this sort, the best Lying Rumor concerns the Master Villain; it gives the heroes some "important" information about him which later turns out to be useless.
Cruel Trick Villain Accompanies Party
In this distressing situation, the Master Villain, in disguise or his secret identity, accompanies the heroes for much of their quest. He gets to know them, learns their strengths and weaknesses, learns their plans, and just as soon as it's most efficient for him, he thwarts their current plans and leaves. Alternatively, the Master Villain might be with the heroes all along, up to the very end; the heroes know that one of their companions is the villain, and the whole thrust of the story is finding out who he is. This is the whole purpose of most Mystery-type adventures.
![Lizzie [may soda be eternal] (kisaragiidolmomo) | 959 comments](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1482897471p1/10363657.jpg)
I have a gif for everything
But not when they don't work apparently
See me in chatting in a few minutes
Spam in the appropriate thread, please, ladies.
Okay... Sorry...But seriousely anyone want to roleplay?
Has anyone seen Inglourious Basterds? I want to do something set in World War II kinda like that. If you haven't seen the movie but still want to do it, it won't make any difference.
You're back, I see. Am I going to have to restate my arguement from last time? And please, don't claim to be another person, since this is the exact post from the other group.
OK, I correct myself, I checked and it isn't exact. But it's the same context and I still thing that you seem a bit more than creepy.
And now that I'e actually looked at your account, I feel like I should apologize for the first part. But not the mature part. I've had this exact conversation before and I wish I didn't have to restate it.
My point is, you better make damn sure that whoever you begin a smut play with is over the age of 18 so you don't get into any trouble. And if you're under 18, you should probably take off that part since it could get someone else into trouble.
There was someone in another group who posted about wanting to do a detailed, ongoing RP that involved NSFW, and the list they gave was basically a bunch of stuff that average teenagers were into, especially girls. That just creeped me out and when I said so, after a few posts of them trying to defend themselves, the name changed to deleted account.
And you think it's her? Or you know it is?
Even if it's just a mistake, I still like to point things like that out both to avoid people accidentally getting into trouble with police, and to try and keep people who might fall into that with the wrong person don't get into some kind of worse trouble. I watch too many crime dramas and real crime shows not to think of these things. And eh, someone has to.
lilყ wrote: "And you think it's her? Or you know it is?"I thought it was for a minute, that's why I posted, then corrected myself.
Well, generally speaking, mature at all is NSFW since there's a lot of things that are 'Not Safe For Work', but I'm also saying this because if you're under, you could make someone lose their entire life because they didn't know, and same the other way around.
No, I'm not saying that, and even if I was it's not my group, I'm just saying that if someone does want to do smut with you that you make sure you're both of age so that nobody gets into any trouble.
Mmk, I was just making sure. I just don't want any lives to be ruined because of a mistake.
Now..... I'm hungry and I want something sweet and I need to nap for like 4000 years cause I thought that person was back for a second...
Hahaha oh Lizzie. I like the changes in direction your mind goes.
@Lizzy oh please.. I just need bacon and a good book and my true love and my life will be perfect...
Zac wrote: "Hahaha oh Lizzie. I like the changes in direction your mind goes."I wouldnt be able to survive without that feature
lilყ wrote: "What was the person before's name?"
I don't remember, since their account's been termminated
Xandra wrote: "@Lizzy oh please.. I just need bacon and a good book and my true love and my life will be perfect..."
UHHUHH NO YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR A MISSPELLING HOW ABOUT NO CAN YOU NOT DO THAT
just sayin'
Now let's all go to chat if we gon' keep this up
Lizzy totally understands my sarcasm... *faceplam*And anyone for some highschool romance roleplay? I prefer to be the girl...
((chat thread, remember?))Has anyone seen Game of Thrones? At least season one?? I want to do an RP based in the TV series.
