I received the Hangman's Noose yesterday. I love it as written. I tend to DM solo adventures for my wife and I am thinking of tweaking this module to expand the Jury. If she were to play a character with ranks in the social skills, do you think this would be a decent module for a solo quest. I would think that some of the more honorable members of the jury could be utilized to help in the investigation. I would still see most if not all of the others being done in by the Hangman but I think this would be great in the Alien, Scream type of story--strong female rising to confront a terrible menace all alone.
Any thoughts?
I received the Hangman's Noose yesterday. I love it as written. I tend to DM solo adventures for my wife and I am thinking of tweaking this module to expand the Jury. If she were to play a character with ranks in the social skills, do you think this would be a decent module for a solo quest. I would think that some of the more honorable members of the jury could be utilized to help in the investigation. I would still see most if not all of the others being done in by the Hangman but I think this would be great in the Alien, Scream type of story--strong female rising to confront a terrible menace all alone.
Any thoughts?
Sounds like a great idea. Expand the jury to include more honorable folk like the paladin, and don't have those people get killed off too fast, and you've got yourself a winner!
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I received the Hangman's Noose yesterday. I love it as written. I tend to DM solo adventures for my wife and I am thinking of tweaking this module to expand the Jury. If she were to play a character with ranks in the social skills, do you think this would be a decent module for a solo quest. I would think that some of the more honorable members of the jury could be utilized to help in the investigation. I would still see most if not all of the others being done in by the Hangman but I think this would be great in the Alien, Scream type of story--strong female rising to confront a terrible menace all alone.
Any thoughts?
You have a few choices. The first is having three NPCs who are descendants like the PC. Essentially you're just running the other three PCs. Alternatively, come up with three new jurors, who have more clues to give, and maybe new gruesome ways to die. This would be a good option if you really want to expand the upon the adventure with your own ideas and characters.
Another option is to just reduce the number of jurors to nine. This is a fantasy city after all, they could have nine man juries (or majority vote verdicts, and three voted innocent, etc) This option allows you to run the module pretty much as written. You just have to scale down the combat encounters and make sure the NPCs are helpful when necessary. I'm guessing that's usually the case with solo adventures.
By the way does your wife enjoy an evening of you trying to creep her out?