Venture-Agent, New Zealand—Auckland
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I'm wanting to run a more humourous type of PFS scenario for our local lodge night, a few days after Christmas and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for more light hearted scenarios that would be applicable - more roleplay rather than combat. We're also in the Southern Hemisphere (New Zealand) so Christmas falls in summer - so any appropriate themed scenarios would be nice.
Any suggestions please?
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As the man said, dying is easy. Comedy is hard. But you could play these a bit more for roleplay:
- Anything with Goblin in the title - Rise of the Goblin Guild was my first thought
- City of Strangers 1 and 2
- The Blakros Matrimony
- The Ghenett Manor Gauntlet - in a warm place, but has quite a bit of combat between absurdities
- The Paths We Choose
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Venture-Agent, Netherlands—Utrecht
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I laughed a lot during Our Lady of Silver.
Just play the appropriate music during the opening and it will set the tone for the whole evening.
I'd go with this. I GMed this for Tineke, and it's pretty much perfect for what you described. It's in Katheer, so it's already pretty hot. The opening scene is straight out of Aladdin, and then it throws some weird curveballs at you.
Protip if you're GMing it: for the opening fight, throw everything at your players, and maybe make up some extra stuff too. Make it a hectic fight, as the fights themselves aren't too difficult. Play up the panic a bit. For the courtroom bit, go check out the GM shared prep site, there's a really cool addition that will really spice up the encounter.
This scenario really ranks as one of my favourite I've GMed so far. It's so unlike anything else I've played.
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Reaping What We Sow is a hilarious time, despite having an option for a darker, more horrific theme to it. Just play up the hilarity of the enemies and how ineffective they are, and you'll have a grand time.
Yeah, it's kinda sad that Paizo's first PFS scenario based on Horror Adventures comes off more as The Nightmare Before Christmas than Nightmare on Elm Street. But it was fun, and very thematic for Halloween, when I played it. So I'd actually recommend everyone wait until next October to run it.
Definitely agree with a lot of the recommendations here. My first thought when I saw the thread title was Frostfur Captives, followed by Rise of the Goblin Guild. Goblins are just great NPCs.
The Sanos Abduction has two fun, light hearted NPCs, but turns dark pretty quickly after that.
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The Paths We Choose
There is a mission to embarrass someone publicly. You can't beat that.
I must have missed that one. The down side of variable missions depending on party, I guess.
That does remind me of one Taldor faction mission from season 1 to push someone into the harbor to humiliate him. Of course, I was playing the only Taldor PC in that one with a strength dumped gnome sorcerer. Luckily, my friend's Chelaxian inquisitor was happy to help.
Come to think of it, a lot of the Taldor faction missions in the early years ended up being funny. Not all, but there were a few. "I do this for Taldor" and the one from part 3 (I think) of Eyes of the Ten are two of the all time most memorable faction missions.
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I agree with most of what's already been mentioned. Night March and Overflow Archives are two of my favorites.
Consortium Compact has some potential for shenanigans, depending on your party.
Sewer Dragons of Absalom was a blast for us, but half of our party were circus performers so we hammed the heck out of it (blood bags and all).
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For Paths we choose it really depends on the story lines that are played. There are 7 options which depend on the players factions. Some are light hearted and some are not. There is one which I believe is for the Dark Achieve which is very dark. I heard lots of people talking about the difficulty and it's about crypts and death.
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Venture-Captain, California—Sacramento
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Reaping What We Sow is a hilarious time, despite having an option for a darker, more horrific theme to it. Just play up the hilarity of the enemies and how ineffective they are, and you'll have a grand time.Yeah, it's kinda sad that Paizo's first PFS scenario based on Horror Adventures comes off more as The Nightmare Before Christmas than Nightmare on Elm Street. But it was fun, and very thematic for Halloween, when I played it. So I'd actually recommend everyone wait until next October to run it.
There is an option in there to go dark. If you want to take it there it can be pretty grim.
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I would not call Ghennett Manor Gauntlet lighthearted. though i did have a bad experience with it.
She was also the only frontliner, with a gnome rogue, zen archer, and an underlevel psychic.
I consider School of Spirits fairly light hearted.
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When done "right", The Stolen Heir can be quite funny.
First, you have the Galtans that have captured the girl... they are showing off and using combat maneuvers without the feats. I play them with heavy Monty Python-esqe fake French accents, because Galt to me has to be revolutionary France, right?
The encounter becomes a farce when it is not just hack slash slay baddies.
Then, later, out have to defend a cow from wolves? Priceless!
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Horn of Aroden can be quite enjoyable if you get the right group of players who are willing to really go with the RP of
And I also really enjoyed Out of Anarchy. That has the bones to be really silly and fun if you get the players to buy in and forget how silly the plot and characters are.
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Venture-Agent, Netherlands—Utrecht
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Horn of Aroden can be quite enjoyable if you get the right group of players who are willing to really go with the RP of
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And I also really enjoyed Out of Anarchy. That has the bones to be really silly and fun if you get the players to buy in and forget how silly the plot and characters are.
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Venture-Agent, New Zealand—Auckland
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Thanks for all of those suggestions and I'll certainly keep them under advisement - especially the "Overflow Archive" I had a lot of fun with that one (my female wizard PC decided to do the underwater level as a mermaid - just because she could - while trying to save as many books as possible) and it's on my list to GM. Unfortunately we're a small Lodge down here so a lot of the suggested scenarios have already been played/GMed by most although I will admit, some of them a worth using my one star replay.
One gaming weekend I did GM all four Goblin modules back to back - just because I could ... and .. oh my ghod ... my players just went for it ... We B4 goblins was comedy gold.
And as for the list of modules with comedic potential, I'm going to add "Ungrounded but Unbroken"
Anyway .. it looks like the players want to get their Pirate on, so it may be "No Plunder No Pay" or "Plunder and Peril" - Arrrrr