I need a dark military campaign or chain of adventures...

[Pop'N'Fresh]

I'm running Dark Legacies with the Savage Worlds rules for a group of brand new players. I have the DL books as well as the SW books, but I don't have any adventures for it.

Can anybody point me in the direction of some good adventures that are set in a dark, low-magic world? Preferrably some good military or mass warfare type adventures.

The rules system doesn't matter as I'll be converting them to Savage Worlds stats anyways.

[Arcane Joe]

Did you ever watch that Sean Bean TV series 'Sharpe'... If your players are not familiar with that material you could draw some great ideas from that series which was set during the Napoleonic wars.

If you go to the List of Episodes in Wikipedia, you can click on each and get a synopsis of all the 'scenarios'...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_(TV_series)#List_of_episodes

All 16 of which could be readily adapted to a role-playing setting.

[Repairman Jack]

I ran the Sharpe stories as a campaign once. The setting was Iron Kingdoms, which has gun technology. A pretty good campaign really.

[Dragonchess Player]

The Red Hand of Doom could work fairly well, IMO, with some modification. The Dungeon adventures "Encounter at Blackwall Keep" (#126), "The Hateful Legacy" (#131), "Tides of Dread" (#143), "The Muster of Morach Tor" (#144), and "The Distraction" (#145) can also be used for a military-themed campaign.

The old 1st Ed AD&D H-series (mostly H1 Bloodstone Pass and H3 The Bloodstone Wars) has a lot of material that can be used. The module I14 Swords of the Iron Legion is a collection of short adventures based around mass battle scenarios.

[Dread]

if you don't mind doing heavy modifications, pick up some old Twilight 2000 modules and modify them for the game system.

[Pop'N'Fresh]

Thanks for all the ideas guys! Love these boards!

I am gonna grab the Sharpe series and give them a watch, and the Dungeon references will definitely deserve a peek as well. Red Hand of Doom is another one I may try, but it's a bit higher level I think so it may not be appropriate for Novice characters.

[Lord Raptor]

Pop'N'Fresh wrote:

Thanks for all the ideas guys! Love these boards!

I am gonna grab the Sharpe series and give them a watch, and the Dungeon references will definitely deserve a peek as well. Red Hand of Doom is another one I may try, but it's a bit higher level I think so it may not be appropriate for Novice characters.

I would also recommend the Roughneck Chronicles for ideas as well.

[Jeremy Epp]

Lord Raptor wrote:

Pop'N'Fresh wrote:

Thanks for all the ideas guys! Love these boards!

I am gonna grab the Sharpe series and give them a watch, and the Dungeon references will definitely deserve a peek as well. Red Hand of Doom is another one I may try, but it's a bit higher level I think so it may not be appropriate for Novice characters.

I would also recommend the Roughneck Chronicles for ideas as well.

Also in this same message board Darkjoy made up a couple of linked adventures for Dark Heresy which might just fit the bill...

Here

[Jeremy Epp]

Just thought of something although not a campaign exactly there are a number of products out there with adventure generators that can certainly give you the basic premise for on the fly missions.

For military/quasi-military generators off the top of my head there are:

Living Steel: old game by Leading Edge, rules had serious issue but fluff was first rate and mission generator set up for rebuilding after if all comes crashing down situation.

Tour of Darkness: Savage Worlds setting taking place in Vietnam with building occult in the background. Still available in PDF form.

Necropolis/Necropolis 2350: Again Savage Worlds setting this time futuristic war against undead. Mission generator should work well, plus main campaign is a long term retaking of major city which might work in your situation as well. Original printing from Pinnacle is PDF only but new version from the author at Triple Ace games just came out and is print run as well as a PDF of the Players Guild which has mission generator but not the re-take the city story arch.

Tour of Darkness and Necropolis are available all over the place like RPGNow, Studio2 and maybe even Paizo (haven't checked)

[Daeglin]

Another literary reference is the series of Black Company books by Glen Cook. If you are already familiar with them and enjoy that type of dark military setting, you could consider picking up The Black Company Campaign Setting currently on sale half price in the Green Ronin section of "The Golem's Got It - On Sale" :)

Realistically, most of the d20 material in the book would not be useful to you in a Savage World ruleset, but there are nuggets of advice on running Character scale vs. Company scale adventures, as well as adventure seed ideas, and summaries of the plots from the books to build adventures off of. My recommendation would be to get it only if you already like the books (or if 20 bucks was burning a hole in your pocket anyway).

[drunken_nomad]

12tomidnight has an entire campaign of really cool modern horror adventures and most are already Savaged for your convenience. And between now and Nov 1st, it looks like every download is 50% off at their home website.

And if you want a cool fantasy adventure for 8th level characters in a swampy setting, look around on that site (I know you didnt ask for that, but Im just sayin...)

[Pop'N'Fresh]

Actually, I do have the Black Company novels, as well as the RPG, didn't think to look there for some reason, odd. Glen Cook rocks.

I glanced at Necropolis and it has some stuff there that I could use too, as long as the vehicles and guns can be removed, and the undead replaced by demonic hordes (which isn't too hard I suppose).

Is the Roughnecks a TV series? Or are they books?

[Lord Raptor]

Pop'N'Fresh wrote:

Actually, I do have the Black Company novels, as well as the RPG, didn't think to look there for some reason, odd. Glen Cook rocks.

I glanced at Necropolis and it has some stuff there that I could use too, as long as the vehicles and guns can be removed, and the undead replaced by demonic hordes (which isn't too hard I suppose).

Is the Roughnecks a TV series? Or are they books?

Roughnecks was a TV series you can order/borrow/acquire on dvd. :)