I knew your second one there Haladir. Classice Universal monster.
A book rather than a movie, but:
The PC is introduced to a poet who claims to revere Rovagug. When the PC expresses doubt that he would so openly claim alleigance to Rovagug, the poet introduces the PC to the secret cult beneath the city. However the PC reveals that he is actually an inquisitor of Abadar, and convinces the other visiting cultists to elect him as leader of the local chapter of the cult.
The PC investigates the other leaders of the cult but, one by one, discovers that they are also inquisitors of Abadar with the same mission to wipe out the cult of Rovagug. The six of them chase down the ultimate leader of the cult, have a series of spiritual epiphanies, then go to a fancy dress party.
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PCs are washouts from the city guard. They make do by smuggling a wondrous item which can use special rods to make people experience other people's memories that are recorded in the rod. The item is illegal in the city, but it is not all bad, because a legless man can experience memories of running on the field of grass barefoot.
One of the PCs suppliers gives them a rod which turns out to be a memory of a girl who experienced a couple of guards murdering a politician who was a vocal anti racism supporter in the city.
The night devolves into a series of chases and revelations, femme fatales show up.
In the end, the guards, along with several more guards who were working with them are arrested, and the PCs don't get much of a reward.
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The PC's are tasked with destroying a demonic sorcerer, with magic weapons forged by an ancient order of monks. Just before they are able to kill it, the foul creature opens a portal which sucks the PC's in. When they emerge, the find themselves in a strange land. They soon find out that they have been transported into the future where the demonic sorcerer now rules all. So begins their journey to return the past to prevent this future from happening.
Hama picked great if not as widely know movie.
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My favorite movie? My very favorite movie? It has to be my favorite movie...
Hmm. That would be hard to do an adventure out of, I must say. But I'll try my best:
It would probably be written for only two PCs. One must be Lawful, the other is Chaotic. Their first task is simply to survive an 800 mile caravan trip, from one major city to another without killing each other.
They then encounter each other several times, each after leveling up a bit. Ultimately the main challenge is to join forces to help each other survive the insanities of the large city they live in, despite their radically different life philosophies.
There are few monster encounters, although notable ones include the aberration known as the Ex-Wife and the Pastry Goblin. There are a lot more skill challenges, including a particularly grueling game of Pictionary. Another key skill challenge is a rare test of the Perform (Fake Orgasm) skill.
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The PCs take a bardic friend of theirs on his first adventure in some haunted caves near town. As they explore their bard friend reassures himself by taking on the role of a priest from one of the plays he was in, trying to fight his fears of the monsters in the cave. Coming out victoriously, they make their way back to town. The next few days their bardic friend seems to be acting strange, continuing to assume the role of the priest. Believing it to be in preparation for an upcoming show they leave town to handle a goblin menace.
A few days later they return to town to find out their bardic friend has left. Clues left behind hint that something is wrong, strange plans laid out. Using the clues can they find their friend before something bad happens to him?
Mazes and Monsters
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Rare in the sense it is seldom used in an RPG (at least any one I have played).
I am not going to click on any undescribed link in the same post where someone's making jokes about orgasms, I have learned that in such things discretion is the better part of valor. Sorry.
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After an odd Merrymead night at the tavern, two religious commoners and their uncharismatic Bard friend have an odd run of bad luck and near death. Limping to the local guards, they spend the night in a cell and receive the divine call (and gain a level in Holy Gun/Paladin).
Turning things to their advantage, they cash in on their last adventure's loot and pick up some new arms (and rope), and set out to take down the Sczarni/AC one low-life at a time. Hindered by their craptastic funnyman Bard, they pull through by the skin of their teeth, due only to the secret aid they are getting from the falling Hellknight Paladin, unsure of his own place in it all.
Getting scarred, the Scazarni/Aspis Consortium/other group calls in a legendary Red Mantis Assassin to take out the crusaders, and tracks them down to their latest hit. There is a firefight!!!, (and random classical music in the background that oddly works very well), and the brothers take their first real loss. Retreiting back to their secret layer, they patch themselves up and prep for the final showdown, but after a interparty conflict, the Bard whines that he is so unbardly and takes off on his own, but stumbles upon the lost Hellknight Paladin attempting to get a foreign priest's persective, and the party learns that they might have a secret ally.
Later, they break into the Sczarni's local HQ, but get caught. Unfortunately for the thugs, the Red Mantis Assassin never completely his mission, and is still on the hunt. Sczarni kill the Bard to send a message, and the Holy Guns gain a level of Barbarians, manage to break out of their constraints. Offering a secret family prayer, the Red Mantis Assassin sneaks up for the kill, but stops, and finishes the chant, revealing he is their father. . .
1) This thread has inspired me to track down and see some of these movies.
2) 8th dwarf, I have difficulty believing that "Police Academy" is anybody's favorite.
So as not to be a total thread-crap:
3) An eccentric millionaire dies uttering a mysterious phrase that holds the key to his treasure...
4) A necromancer is committing unseemly crimes to complete a bizarre ritual, to solve the mystery before he completes the procedure the PCs must enlist the aid of another necromancer who has been captured and imprisoned...
6) A giant robot that eats planets... well, you get the idea.
This reminds me of that "guess movie by plot" messageboard game. "Girl comes to town, kills a complete stranger. The stranger's sister vows revenge, Girl hooks up with three weirdoes to track down and kill the sister, too."
@ DM Beckett - Didn't even need to look in the spoiler to know that movie.
This would work nicely as a long running campaign:
Two young PC's are out by their favorite spot by a lake discussing what transpired in their lives that day. An explosion goes off nearby, flinging a mysterious object their direction. One of them inadvertently activates the device, causing him to be enveloped by some sort of creature. After struggling to free himself, he falls into the lake. As the other PC looks at the lake, trying to catch sight of his friend, a group of mysterious warriors appear with a large monstrousity that moves in threatenly on the lone PC. Just before it reaches him, another mysterious armored figure comes out of the lake and confronts the beast, defeating it with little effort. The other warriors retreat and the armor detatches itself, revealing the PC that fell into the lake. After hovering for a moment, the armor disappears into the water. From there, the PC's lives are changed forever.
It is a Youtube video that edited clips from When Harry Met Sally in order to make it look like a thriller/horror movie. There is nothing more objectionable in it than Meg Ryan uttering a curse.
I am not going to click on any undescribed link in the same post where someone's making jokes about orgasms, I have learned that in such things discretion is the better part of valor. Sorry.
It is a Youtube video that edited clips from When Harry Met Sally in order to make it look like a thriller/horror movie. There is nothing more objectionable in it than Meg Ryan uttering a curse.
I am not going to click on any undescribed link in the same post where someone's making jokes about orgasms, I have learned that in such things discretion is the better part of valor. Sorry.
Thanks. Now I have watched it. :) ("Scary Mary" is still my favorite recut trailer, as is the one where "The Shining" is turned into a heartfelt family comedy.)
Sorry if I was a party pooper, but I have been far too long on the Internet to be trusting of mystery links.
Drejk, I think it was the cussing in WHMS that earned them an R rating at the time (as otherwise it's a pretty tame film), yes even beyond THAT scene.
Sarcasmancer - I watch a lot of movies and have a lot of favorites.
My favorite "bad" 80's movies include: Cannonball Run, Smokey & the Bandit, Blues Brothers, Police Academy, Ghost Busters, and so on.
You name a genre I have at least 5 movies from each I will sit down and watch over and over again.
Romantic comedy?
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The player characters are holed up in a church of Aroden that was converted to an inn after His death. On an auspicious night, a man older than he should be wanders in with what turns out to be an artifact that was originally filled with Aroden's blood.
The blood gets used, you see, in a surprisingly role-play heavy game session.
A pit fiend in disguise attempts to seduce the various PCs and NPCs [who are replacement PCs] that run and/or occupy the Inn by way of visions and dreams while his summoned lesser devils surround and attempt to slaughter the occupants of the no-longer-sacred building.
If the players survive until dawn without having lost custody of the artifact nor having spilled out every drop of blood from within the artifact, the forces of evil are thwarted from cloaking the face of Golarion in darkness and damnation.
Romantic comedy?
So I know I'm not the 8th Dwarf (just look at the luxurious red hair in that avatar pic, no way I can compete there), but I'm in the same boat with the "Throw a genre at me and I can give you at least 5 movies in there I'll watch any time" situation, and I'm curious to see how much my answers match up with his. So, I'm gonna jump in on this one :P
Romantic Comedy huh...
- Sliding Doors
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Love Actually
- Reality Bites
- Muriel's Wedding
- BONUS MOVIE!: 10 Things I Hate About You
Note: Those are in no particular order, out of the six of them, 10 Things I Hate About You and Sliding Doors would be my favourites I guess.
Feel free to throw more genres.
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The player characters are holed up in a church of Aroden that was converted to an inn after His death. On an auspicious night, a man older than he should be wanders in with what turns out to be an artifact that was originally filled with Aroden's blood.
The blood gets used, you see, in a surprisingly role-play heavy game session.
A pit fiend in disguise attempts to seduce the various PCs and NPCs [who are replacement PCs] that run and/or occupy the Inn by way of visions and dreams while his summoned lesser devils surround and attempt to slaughter the occupants of the no-longer-sacred building.
If the players survive until dawn without having lost custody of the artifact nor having spilled out every drop of blood from within the artifact, the forces of evil are thwarted from cloaking the face of Golarion in darkness and damnation.
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I love that movie
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My favorite "bad" 80's movies include: Cannonball Run, Smokey & the Bandit, Blues Brothers, Police Academy, Ghost Busters, and so on.
A fabulous list. Ignore the grim man who lives in a humourless bubble.
Romantic comedy?
SAW.
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Campaign: The PCs are Eagle Knights of the Gray Corsairs, on a continuing mission to explore the strange islands and ancient ruins of the Azlanti Archipelago. The campaign is more-or-less an episodic sandbox for exploration, with a few recurring themes and story arcs. Usual encounters are with sea monsters, Azlanti ruins, and the Chelish Navy, who are on a similar and competing mission. The PCs are particularly on the lookout for the terraform device, an Azlanti artifact rumored to be able to raise new islands from the sea... Or sink existing islands back beneath the waves.
Sample Adventure
While exploring an island, the PCs find and activate an Azlanti ruin that calls back an ancient aether ship (as presented in the PFS Season 0 scenario, King Xeros of Old Azlant). Aboard are two dozen crewmen, apparently in some kind of suspended animation. The PCs revive the crew, but doing so permanently destroys the aether ship. The captain of the ship introduces himself as "The Sultan", and explains that they had been suspended and sent on a mission into the Ethereal Plane centuries ago. However, it isn't long before The Sultan attempts a mutiny to take over the PCs' ship. It comes out that The Sultan is a high-level eldritch knight who had started a civil war in Azlant, but the Azlanti were so impressed with him and his cabal that they exiled them to the aether rather than killing them. The PCs regain control of their ship, and themselves maroon The Sultan and his crew on an island-- where he can build his new empire anew.
Best romantic comedy? I'm gonna go with American Psycho.
That guy sure did have an intense love affair with business cards.
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Romantic comedy?
Something like "Never Been Kissed" (I think that was the name) could actually work fairly well. You are a small group of adventurers that for whatever McGuffin reason decide to Disguise yourselves as and infiltrate a community of Halflings/Gnomes/Fey leading to some We BE Goblins-like encounters, but mostly non-combat.
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The party is hired by a powerful and eccentric archmage to guard over his "great work" while he gets it ready for use. But before the archmage can "throw the switch" they are ambushed by overpowering foes from which the archmage had stolen a key item for his work. In the midst of the fight, the device/ritual/epic-spell is activate throwing the party into a demi-plane where they must defeat the realms' thuggish overlord, stop him from marrying the princess, resist the princess' new-found love for one or more of the PCs, unite her and her prince in an enchanted under-the-sea wedding, all the while trying to help the archmage (now with limited amnesia) re-work his "great work" to get them all back home. Bonus if one or more of the PCs performs during the ceremony. Mega bonus if the princess and prince resembles a young version of one of the PC's parents. Completion of the ceremony sends an electrical storm throughout the realm which the archmage harnesses to send them back.
The PCs (low level) are conscripted by the local ruler to serve as tedious workers, filling out endless reports for the debauched bureaucracy for several months with no obvious chance of escape, always captured by the elite guards if they try (the first few months should be just a quick intro-flavor text moment). After a while the guards become lax, greener (appropriate CR for the PCs) guards replace the elite ones that have gone off to do other jobs for the ruler. Then one of the PCs (or an NPC if no appropriately rogue-ish PC is available) gains access to the key to the royal vaults (or are able to make a copy of it). The PCs also find at this time, several ways to escape (though not without danger). The PCs now have the chance to rob the government blind, escape to a neighboring kingdom, and if they make friends with a mumbling and disgruntled fellow conscript the royal palace will burn down.
One of the party's great and beloved mentors is kidnapped by a thieves guild and the PCs must defeat the guild-boss and his martial-artist girlfriend to rescue their mentor...all while being highly sexually objectified. Bonus for terrible acting and worse dialogue.
The party is hired to find a group of young explorers that went missing in a primeval jungle and at the very least bring back their records of their exploration. While following in the tracks of the missing explorers (which can include all sorts of monstrous encounters), the PCs get caught between two warring cannibal tribes. At some point they discover that one of the tribes had captured, killed, and eaten the original explorers and has their equipment, including their records. It's possible for the PCs to trade or negotiate for the records but they may also be able to take them by force. Once the PCs have the records, if they read them, they realize that the explorers became increasingly sadistic in their journey (far more barbaric than the tribes) and in fact were the initial cause for the two tribes to go to war with each other (each thinking their murdered tribes men, their burnt villages, etc. were caused by the other tribe, when in fact the explorers had done so).
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Best done with one player, but may work for more.
PCs are guards, visiting a loved one (a spouse of one of the PCs) in another city. She is working for a local lord who owns a huge castle that is all in a single tower. It is midwinter's eve and there is a huge party at the lord's castle.
Out of nowhere a bunch of thugs come and kill anyone who protests or tries to defend themselves. Not soon after, a bunch of city guards appear and surround the castle.
The leader of the group wants some of his associates freed from prison, and if he doesn't get his way, he will start murdering hostages.
PCs must navigate the castle's hidden corridors, pick enemies one by one and discover that the evil group is not really after freedom for their comrades but after the lord's vault which is rumored to be full with riches.
Lord is murdered, a lot of killing ensues, bonus points for having one guard (a cool one) find a way to communicate with the PCs, also having the leader of the evil group encounter the PCs and pretend to be someone else.
Big bonus points for the evil leader falling to his death. And someone igniting a LOT of alchemist's fire on top of the castle for a huge explosion.
I don't think this really needs a spoiler
Not going to even use the spoiler thing because this will become immediately obvious:
The players are walking down the street in Riddleport when the street starts to shake; Earthquake? A perception roll is made and it seems that the greatest noise is coming from the Great Arch. So the party heads in that direction. As they get closer, the shaking increases. As the Arch comes into view, they can see parts of the Arch falling away. It's easy to see large Runic letters beneath. Suddenly a large Gem on the Arch lights up! The Arch spins into the ground and more rock is shorn away to show that the arch is covered in these runes and gems. The arch stops seven times and then FLOOSH!!!! a huge wave of water rips down the street!
This isn't an Arch, but a Ring! The wave dissapears just as suddenly and there is a rippling surface on the ring.
Not giving people time to be stunned, a ship floats out of the ring.
Well, that's all I got.
I really hope you don't need help in guessing what movie that came from. :D
I really hope you don't need help in guessing what movie that came from. :D
Guess "immediately obvious" depends on what movies you've seen. Sorry to disappoint, but this isn't ringing any bells for me. :(
Of course, I don't recognize DQ's either, but hey...
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PC's are released from jail, having served their sentances.
They are approached by a mysterious man to acquire 3 precious magic items reputed to have been crafted by a long-dead sorceror.
During the quest to acquire the items, they run afoul of a somewhat inept, but dangerous thief guild, a group of rogue king's shadow agents, and a mysterious group of inquisitors.
This leads the party to the main antagonists, a local baron and his mad wife, who have discovered the true purpose of these items is to combine them into a sorceror's stone, and plan to flood the kingdom with gold, destroying the economy and making it easy for their goons to conquer.
The PCs must outwit the baron or destroy this item to prevent the chaos.
I guess you have to be a real stargate fan that bought the DVD collection etc. In the current Second Darkness AP when the GM started to describe the Arch as this thing with runes covering it, I kept saying it was a big stargate. I thought it was a neat idea, but eh.
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I guess you have to be a real stargate fan that bought the DVD collection etc. In the current Second Darkness AP when the GM started to describe the Arch as this thing with runes covering it, I kept saying it was a big stargate. I thought it was a neat idea, but eh.
Well, the problem is that most people know the movie, not the show.
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The party is ship wrecked on an island, and discover that an aging wizard, his beautiful daughter, and their shield guardian construct guardian are the sole inhabitants, survivors of a previous expedition, who have taken residence in an ancient ruin.
That night, the party are attacked by a mysterious monster that they can defeat, but reappears each subsequent night.
They discover that the ruins contain an ancient magical property, to summon an eidolon that enacts the unconscious will of the sleeping wizard (who is sleeping in the activation chamber), who wants to drive off the party before they convince his daughter to leave with them.
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A distant land is ravaged by undead raiders who strike from a mysterious bone citadel that vanishes with the rising of the sun, only to reappear at sunset in a new location, sometimes thousands of miles away. The party must consult a diviner who can predict the next location the citadel will appear, and then secure a means of transportation to take them to the place it is due to arrive (say, flying horses), so that they can infiltrate it and use their powers, skills and a random artifact they picked up on the way to end it's threat forever.
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After Earthfall, arrogant Azlanti supremacists used powerful magic to transport themselves to the moon, where they placed themselves into crystal stasis, to wait out the Age of Darkness, convinced that the 'lesser races' of man were somehow to blame for the doom that fell upon their empire.
Generations later, they have returned, in vast skymetal barges that have physically crossed the void between the moon and the earth, intending to re-conquer the Inner Sea, in the name of New Azlant.
The party is ship wrecked on an island, and discover that an aging wizard, his beautiful daughter, and their shield guardian construct guardian are the sole inhabitants, survivors of a previous expedition, who have taken residence in an ancient ruin.
That night, the party are attacked by a mysterious monster that they can defeat, but reappears each subsequent night.
They discover that the ruins contain an ancient magical property, to summon an eidolon that enacts the unconscious will of the sleeping wizard (who is sleeping in the activation chamber), who wants to drive off the party before they convince his daughter to leave with them.
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Secondary Spoiler:Also, originally/essentially, Shakespeare's The Tempest.
A distant land is ravaged by undead raiders who strike from a mysterious bone citadel that vanishes with the rising of the sun, only to reappear at sunset in a new location, sometimes thousands of miles away. The party must consult a diviner who can predict the next location the citadel will appear, and then secure a means of transportation to take them to the place it is due to arrive (say, flying horses), so that they can infiltrate it and use their powers, skills and a random artifact they picked up on the way to end it's threat forever.
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Can it have a cyclops helper-outer who knows when and how he'll die?
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Can it have a cyclops helper-outer who knows when and how he'll die?A distant land is ravaged by undead raiders who strike from a mysterious bone citadel that vanishes with the rising of the sun, only to reappear at sunset in a new location, sometimes thousands of miles away. The party must consult a diviner who can predict the next location the citadel will appear, and then secure a means of transportation to take them to the place it is due to arrive (say, flying horses), so that they can infiltrate it and use their powers, skills and a random artifact they picked up on the way to end it's threat forever.
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Absolutely. So long as it definitely has a funny wizard who can turn into a tiger!
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A town in northern Cheliax is found destroyed, all living creatures and even wooden buildings utterly ravaged by destructive spores, with unwholesome fungus all that remains.
A fungus-infected black armored Hellknight, with a glowing red brilliant energy longsword, rides alongside a troop of fellow soldiers (advanced giant template vegepygmies in white wooden 'plate'), demanding tribute from villages and towns in this region, and those who fail to pay up are destroyed overnight by what turns out to be a beyond-colossal Mu Spore, upon whose back live an entire community of vegepygmies, clad in bleached white wooden plate armor and riding plant-type fungus-infected dire bats as they swoop down on villages who fail to pay tribute to this new 'Dark Empire.'
Fortunately, the Mu Spore has a weak point, guarded by its many vegepygmy servants, high on it's back...
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Resting overnight in a small mountain town, our adventurers take part in their annual Pharasmin festival of the Release of the Whippoorwill, where the citizens release a whippoorwil and if it's shadow passes over the statue of Pharasma, it will be a long winter.
Attempting to leave later that day for a city large enough to sell their loot, the snowstorm that sets in blocks the only pass out of town, forcing the adventurer's to stay in the town. But the next morning, things turn strange as once again, the Release of the Whippoorwill is to be performed. Exploring the town they find the truth to be they have restarted the previous day.
And thus begins the loop where each day begins with the same day, even death not a release from this cycle. It is up to our brave adventurer's to find out what they must do to escape.
The Party is sent to an arctic wasteland with a group of NPC researchers investigate a large meteor. The group discovers a strange creature frozen in the ice, which they bring back to the camp. After some time, the creature thaws out and escapes. The PC's kill the monster and it is studied by the NPC's. It is discovered that the creature can mimic others, perfectly. Now the party must figure out who is who they say they are.
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The original John Carpenter movie was much better.
What I liked about the alien the most is how well it could pretend to be a specific person, then at a moment's notice become something so alien and disturbing. Freaked me out hard core, and to this day is my fav film monster.
A remote Alkenstar colony has ceased comminucation with it's home nation. A contingency of marines is sent to investigate.
Upon arrival the colony is found completely abandonded, with signs of conflict. Using locate person, they find what remains of the colonists in cocoons, and are swarmed by Azatas.
They must fight to survive with no hope of rescue, and make sure the menace does not spread.
"I saw we row out, and meteor storm the whole colony. It's the only way to be sure."
A remote Alkenstar colony has ceased comminucation with it's home nation. A contingency of marines is sent to investigate.
Upon arrival the colony is found completely abandonded, with signs of conflict. Using locate person, they find what remains of the colonists in cocoons, and are swarmed by Azatas.
They must fight to survive with no hope of rescue, and make sure the menace does not spread.** spoiler omitted **
And it already has the first part here.
Okay, here's another...
The PCs are passengers or crew aboard a ship sailing off the west coast of Garund, south of Sargava. The ship stops at a small town in a remote location to resupply, but find the town abandoned. Searching the town, the party finds the supplies they were looking for, but also hear the sounds of another crewman fighting something. When they investigate, the crewman is unconscious and badly injured, but there is little trace of whatever attacked him. They bring him back aboard the ship, which sets sail again.
Two days later, the crewman, now healed back up, starts displaying symptoms of an illness. During dinner in the ship's galley, that crewman suddenly gets up, convulses, then collapses. Horrifyingly, a disgusting creature (a variant death worm) bursts from his abdomen, killing him, and then, quickly slithers out of the room.
The rest of the adventure consists of the PCs attempting to track down and kill this monster, as it continues to attack and kill the other crewmen. After each kill, the creature increases in size and/or lays more eggs inside its victims. Eventually, the PCs are the only people alive aboard the ship when they finally confront the now-huge creature!
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I would stage
Hmmm.
Lost Coast area, comfortable settlement, aristocrats pushing common folk out of their homes by leveraging wealth against them.
Rumors of lost treasure from a legendary Shackles pirate.
A family of human criminals as the direct antagonists.
Non-lethal fear inducing trap outside the dungeon entrance to force stragglers inside.
Possible friendly CG ogrekin barbarian NPC ally waiting to be freed.
Split the party.
Dungeon heavily geared towards skillmonkeys.
Make it look like the adventure reward is going to be a total Monty Haul and then yoink 90% of it back out of their hands.
Pepper the adventure with songs from a famous female gnomish bard.
im from astoria! great movie too...