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Definitely needs a Hunting of the Snark section....
But that's First Edition and I have no desire to try to update a first ed adventure. Personally I think it's easier to just start from scratch and I have a little bit of a different take on the whole adventure. I've decided to make it an Adventure Path that travels through various book universes, starting with Alice.
But here on the boards, it's easy to find snark.
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Knowing my players, they'd turn him in and join the Revolution. Vive le Galt!
Good lads. And/or lasses, as the case may be.
Vive le Galt!
Now I'm trying to figure out how to actually build this world. I think I want to make an "Adventure" area for each level for each world. They're going to do some jumping through dimensions and I want to make it such that they have a choose your own adventure type thing going where I may not use all of the adventures written because they chose a different path.
Now I'm trying to figure out how to write the story. I think I'll just start writing it and see where it goes and what ideas I come up with while I'm writing. I was never very good at pre-planning a story line.
Robinson Crusoe. The PCs are shipwrecked on a desert island and have to survive.
Psycho. The PCs need to track down a clerk who stole a lot of money from her employer and then ran off. The lead goes cold at the last inn anyone ever saw her at...
Moby Dick. The PCs are the officers of a ship whose captain is obsessed with hunting down an elusive sea monster... and doesn't care how many crewmembers die in the attempt.
The Lorax. The PCs are a druid and his allies in a struggle to save a primeval forest from an aggressive logging company.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The PCs are brought together individually by an eccentric wizard for a tour of his tower. Hijinks ensue.
Lysistrata. The PCs are followers of Calistria who must convince the local politial leaders to end their war against a neighboring city.
The Grapes of Wrath The PCs have been forced from their home and must jouney to a fabled wondrous new land that turns out to be far less wonderful than advertised.
Lysistrata? Going on a sex strike to end a war, then spending half the time trying to stop the other women sneaking out for sex romps, while a being a fun concept probably wouldn't fly for a lot of people :-)
Decamerone. Jus' sayin'.
I remember that the Alice in Wonderland books were peppered with social commentary (Mad Hatter/Mercury Poisoning and others...) and that makes me think of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It referred to the gold standard/silver standard political split in America. The yellow brick road (gold standard) walked on by Dorothy's silver slippers (silver standard) to the Emerald City (Green/Money)... I'm sure there was more to it, but I forget.
There were others as well, though the current events references drop off significantly. It could be fun for a subtle steam punk element.
Lysistrata? Going on a sex strike to end a war, then spending half the time trying to stop the other women sneaking out for sex romps, while a being a fun concept probably wouldn't fly for a lot of people :-)
The idea was to look to literature for inspiration for an adventure, not to just run the plot...
Here's a few more...
The Crucible. The PCs witness a literal witch hunt that is catching up innocent people and sending them to the gallows. Speaking out against it risks accusation.
And Then There Were None. The PCs receive an invitation to an event at an estate on an island. While there, the guests are murdered off one at a time... Who's next?
Heart of Darkness The PCs go into the wilderness to find a missing explorer. When they find him, he doesn't want to go, and what he's been doing is... disturbing.
I remember that the Alice in Wonderland books were peppered with social commentary (Mad Hatter/Mercury Poisoning and others...) and that makes me think of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It referred to the gold standard/silver standard political split in America. The yellow brick road (gold standard) walked on by Dorothy's silver slippers (silver standard) to the Emerald City (Green/Money)... I'm sure there was more to it, but I forget.
There were others as well, though the current events references drop off significantly. It could be fun for a subtle steam punk element.
I was taught the political allegory interpretation of Oz in high school. It had already been pretty much discarded by then, since no one ever mentioned that interpretation until the 1960s, including Baum. Still, there was a lesson there on literary criticism and allegory, so 9th grade English class wasn't a total waste of time.
But yeah, in the 3rd book (4th if you count The Woggle-Bug Book, but please don't), Ozma of Oz, he introduces the character of Tik-Tok, a copper wind-up man, and that's about a Steampunky as you can get. Well, without steam, I mean.