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Today I had the privilege of running D&D for a group of players who have never played the game before. It was a great experience, but I thought the most interesting thing was that it was a Frankenventure.
What's that?
It's an adventure composed almost entirely of encounters and dungeons cribbed from pre-made adventures and stitched together into a cohesive story.
So I thought I'd start a thread that would celebrate people's most successful Frankenventures. I'll begin shall I?
Frankenventure Name: Hollow's Whispered Offering
Adventure Elements: Adventure hook and Droskar's Crucible from "Hollow's Last Hope", Opening encounter from "AP1: Burnt Offerings", final encounter "AoW Whispering Cairn" Filge's Observatory.
Stitching: The PCs are brought together when they all visit the local temple at the same time in the hopes of getting cured of a coughing illness they've caught. Waiting outside the temple with a group of the sick the PCs band together to fight of a band of Goblins ("Goblin Assault" from Burnt Offerings). During the assault the goblins burn up the cure sitting in a nearby caravan. The PCs are tasked with retrieving iron cap mushrooms for a replacement cure. Brief investigation later leads them to a nearby inn where they talk with a Dwarven historian who tells them of a possible location for the iron cap mushrooms a place called Droskar's Crucible.
The PCs encounter a zombified goblin "shaman". In the "shaman's" pocket is a note saying: "I have a gift for you. Come see me. -Filge"
The PCs then play through Droskar's Crucible. On returning to Falcon's Hollow the PCs then give the cleric the required ingredients. The next morning when they return for their cure the cleric informs them that the bodies of those who have succumbed to the Blackscour Taint had been stolen. After some investigation the PCs are led to the nearby observatory where they encounter Filge preparing the corpses for a full blown Blackscour Zombie invasion of the town.
Filge is a powerful character, I made him the disgraced son of the village cleric. His big plan was to waste the village's divine magic fighting back the blackscour taint, until they would be defenseless against a zombie invasion. He's dead.
