Grimm's Fairy Tales?

[Mark Hoover]

Sketching an adventure outline: a sickly woman approaches the brave heroes in some way to ask their help in finding her brothers who have been cursed and transformed into monsters. She knows their general range; a nearby mountain vale where they are supposedly living in a cave that none but them can enter.

The party fights their way there, discovers the secret entrance and clears the cave, subduing the "brothers" so that the woman can place upon each of them a signet ring to remind them of their home and human lives. The rings do their work, the brothers are returned and everyone lives happily ever after...all thanks to the works of the Brothers Grimm.

This is a very loose adaptation of the 7 Ravens. I was hunting for some inspiration and came across a really old volume of Grimm's that I had moldering away in the basement. I'm wondering if anyone else has used these stories for their games? Currently I'm trying to conceive an adventure based on Little Red Riding Hood, working together a werewolf, red herself, and a woodsman to tie it all together...

[Gnomezrule]

You will want to watch the recent Red Riding Hood movie. Its awesome. Gary Oldman the paladin/inquisitor werewolf hunter.

I have not used Grimm's. However there is a pair of old modules that Gygax did based on Alice in Wonderland. I have never run it but I have thought about it a few times.

[malebranche]

"Red Riding Hood" is indeed good, as is "The Company of Wolves" (from the 80s, I think).

I recently ran one where Red (named Robin in-game) helped the heroes out with another fairy-tale adventure. She seemed like a bada** wolf-hunter, but turned out to be a vampire, who was in league with a worg.

[Mark Hoover]

klassy.

I also have in mind a riff on Robin Hood:

the party is in attendance at a faire and a hooded stranger steps up on the archery range, fires, and splits his opponent's arrow. The sheriff (a good NPC who is a friend to the PC's) leaps up and calls out "Thrush of Keysley, you're under arrest!" but the party is too busy watching the ground around the target rot into a terrifying blight...

Turns out there is a bandit in the woods, with a "Troupe of Lively Lads" and instead of a friar there's a druid. Thrush and his bandits are under an evil effect that's slowly corrupting them into aberrations and Thrush Cowl carries an additional power that causes blight wherever he fires his arrows.

Turns out the druid is also in love with Thush's main squeeze; a maid at the town inn named Marion. He courted dark powers to win her and now those powers have gone awry. The party will have to either help their friend the sheriff who REALLY just wants them brought to justice and cured of their curse or the wicked druid who lies his way into getting them to try and kill Thrush.

[Bwang]

I used a few Grimm tales in my game, the original ones. Quite horrific.

[e-terah earthenchild]

oh.That sounds awesome.How about Beauty and the Beast?Or the Frog Prince?Anybody here ever read snafu comics Everafter by endling?Gritty good.

[tauntdragoon]

check out the tv shows grimm and once upon a time they might help some as they are using the dark versions of the tales i like them a lot better then most other telling cause they use the darker nature of the stories as i have not read any of the grimm tales i only know the upbeat happy Disney version's they given me some thought on plot point and what not