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A group of my friends who do not role play at all have been asking me questions about it for some time now and finally demanded for me to run a game. I wanted to run something for a few hours next weekend. There should be 4-6 players. Any ideas on what I should run? These are people that have no clue what D&D is and I want to show them how much fun it can be. Although some of the questions asked when I finally broke down and said yes were, "Are you going to be wearing a wizard robe" and my favorite "Is there a safe word".
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Greetings, fellow traveller.
I'd suggest having a look at these, free-to-download and short adventures--they are the Free RPG Day modules and are fun and easy to play/GM.
Good luck and have fun!
Ruyan.
Carnival of Tears! That'll disturb them!
Carnival of Tears! That'll disturb them!
That sounds interesting but it seems to be a full module not something I would be able to wrap up in one evening.
I just ran We Be Goblins for some new players. It's a fun option.
I've ran that for our regular group, it was fun and it definitely was considered by me. But in the end I ruled it out because it's an adventure that is something different from the norm and I wouldn't want to run it for new players that don't even understand what it is different from.
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Personally I don't think you can go wrong with Hollow's Last Hope. I've used the module or a version of it modified for home used now to start up 2 home campaigns. It's become my "Keep on the Borderlands" for PF.
Hollow has some NPC interaction, exploration elements, and ends with a dungeon hack, all with a sense of urgency since the players are on a clock. It's also open ended; it could lead into more dungeon delving using the kobold modules after or just making it up as you go, or you could just as well throw a sandbox game at them with the map provided of the area surrounding Falcon's Hollow.
Come to think of it you could even, with a bit of modifying, even tie this module into the original Keep on the Borderlands for one mini-mega-campaign. They start out at the hollow, solve that crisis, then exploring out from there find the caves of chaos in the nearby mountains. Adventure ensues...
While it sounds fun, I don't think you need to do that, actually. The Darkmoon Vale mini campaign has been described in detail a couple of times on these forums. The good thing about it is, 2 modules are for free (Hollow's Last Hope and Revenge of the Kobold King, just see my link above).
For a one-shot I'd suggest Master of the Fallen Fortress. This should easily be do-able and afterwards you might have time to chat and receive feedback.
Ruyan.
Thanks for the help everyone. I'm going to run either Hollow's Last Hope or Master of the Fallen Fortress. Although I am leaning towards the latter. I'll read through both and make my decision by tomorrow.
Regardless I don't want to use the pregens from the Masters adventure. I'd want the basic character classes.