Everyone has those moments when your DMing energy is running low. When you just do not want to put forth the effort into your game. Unfortunatly, for those moments, the little blue pill will not work. However, we have the next best thing...
The mindless encounter / adventure of the week! The rules are...
1. The encounter / adventure sould be easy on the DM to run.
2. It should be as world neutral as possible.
3. If possible, it should use the core rulebooks.
4. Try to include plot hooks to entice the most stubborn of players to want to do the encounter / adventure.
Edited to remove a very bad joke.
Slavepits of the Cinderforge (EL 6)
The party is on the road through hilly terrain when they come upon an escaped human slave, battered and bloody. He beseeches the party for aid.
If they help him, when he recovers he reveals that he is Tellen (LN Human Wizard 5), a prosperous weaponsmith. Several weeks ago he was kidnapped by a brutal cleric of Erythnul named Halcon, who brought him and all of his tools and wealth down into a system of caves in the hills, to an area known as the Cinderforge. The Cinderforge contains a wide rift to the Elemental Plane of Fire. There he was made to toil under the vicious cruelty of an evil azer known as Es'kutha. Halcon and his gang, the Black Ring, are using slaves to construct a device he calls the Spiral of Entropy.
If the party can enter the Fireforge, defeat Es'kutha, Halcon, and his Black Ring, and disrupt the creation of the Spiral, Tellen is prepared to offer them a substantial cash reward (2,500 gp per PC) or a 15% discount on anything they purchase from him in the future (their choice).
Fireforge Slaver
The Champion of Entropy and his Cronies
Optional:Pit Fighter (needs to be leveled up)
Demon Summoner
Advanced Steam Mephit
Map: Dungeon 137's Map of Mystery, the Cinderforge
As for the Spiral of Entropy, you can either make it up or assume that when the party arrives, it has not yet been completed (or perhaps it has, though it looks like it hasn't, a la the second Death Star - this is an item of ruin, you see).
How was that?
TK
~claps~ Good one, Thanis
