Need some creative help on folowup to the Black Fang adventure.


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The setup: Some amateur actors put on a poorly written, but well acted play called The Goblin Maid's Lament during the celebration feast the day after the heroes return. The play is laughably bad, so it fades into background noise for the conversations the PCs will be having with townsfolk. However, the acting is good enough that when goblins come up and make off with the gnome girl who was wearing a circlet of disguise, noone thinks much of it, considering it part of the play. That is, untill the feast ends, and a male halfling staggers out calling for the pcs to rescue the girl.

The problem: I could.use some ideas of scenes from the play to describe if the PCs ask. No stumbles or bad acting, need them to actually think the girl is worth saving. Just badly written scenes.

Can any of the geniuses here help me out?

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Well you could take inspiration from the movie Hot Fuzz during the Romeo and Juliet scene I tend to use that as my inspiration for bad acting.

Perhaps the Goblins were tricked by a member of the community to get rid of her because she was showing up A member of the troupe who (possibly) A member of the community considers to be actual "A" list actor, or that she was accidentally the WRONG target and one of the poorer actors was the intended victim in order to adhere to the greater good of the community.

Then again this assumes that your community in the game adheres to the same gray area alot of the NPC inhabitants of my world are in as I like to keep certain areas in the mindset of whats the lesser of two evils?


You could have a scene where the girl is trying to "convince the audience that she is being hunted." Just before the big kidnapping. The problem is that she doesn't show any emotion whatsoever, and in fact says her lines in a monotone fashion....Except when she's grabbed by the goblin...

Another scene could be a horrible portrayal of an event from the characters' recent exploits. Perhaps the scene with the goblins! Then there's a reason for a goblin to be on stage. Just after a character in the scene says, "grab her!" the real goblin strikes (the person with the line, "grab her" could be in on the plot).

Two people are arguing over a chess match. The problem is that the prop is a checker game.

One actor's wooden sword breaks when he tries to "hit" another...right in half...and he keeps trying to fight.

The girl keeps looking at one of the pc's longingly during any "love" scene in the play.

Just before the play, the girl tells them that she needs their help in claiming an inheritance, and that she'd explain more after the production.

The young actress is related to Mayor Kendra or is perhaps the neice of Ameiko.

The young actress teasingly "stole" an heirloom off of one of the pc's, promising to return it after the play.


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Thanks for the ideas, ShallowHammer, didn't think of putting props in the descriptions. Got my thinkings flowing again.


The young actress is the daughter of a wealthy merchant or, to really make it east, the daughter of the mayor that sent them after Black Fang. Even though he doesn't approve of her free-willed career choice, he still wants her back.


Sartugha, I'm curious as to how your game went. Did they rescue the girl? Is there a campaign journal somewhere I can follow? I like your spin on what happened after Black Fang. I'm curious where you will lead this.


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I appreciate the interest, but unfortunatly my father in law hit some heath problems. Still having the plans, but gotta wait for him to get out of the ICU before we can continue.

As for where its going, I'm planning to use this and a few ideas I've found here on the boards to run this campaign as a prequel to Rise of the Runelords, setting it 5 years earlier, just before the "Late Unpleasantness" begins.


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I show up and eat EVERYONE!


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Now now, be patient. You'll have your chance. You already took down the fighter and the barbarian in one breath attack, making them scramble to keep up. It was only a lucky hit from the barb that made you flee. You'll have a bigger stat block when you face them again, as well as some support.

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The Pathfinder comic series storyline has a follow up to the Black Fang adventure. I think the follow up is issues 7-12.

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