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Offline kevin video

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Need to do a Scavenger Hunt Adventure
« on: November 28, 2012, 05:17:55 PM »
Nothing specific. Just need to do a fun little lvl 2 adventure of some kind that involved a scavenger hunt for first timer players. I'm told that doing something like this helps ease new players into a group setting.

Looking for ideas. I was thinking "1) Find any 1 undead, slay it, bring back its head. 2) Bring back 100g worth of silver from a Silver Bell (Book of Beasts). 3) Something else."

If there's an actual written adventure I'd run that.
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Re: Need to do a Scavenger Hunt Adventure
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2012, 05:43:07 AM »
Who is it that organized this scavenger hunt? Cause I can totally see some gnome have one of the items be "a lock of hair from the princess" (or something else which would put the players in a lot of problems).  :plotting

Are there other groups participating aswell? Cause I recall Might and Magic VII started with a nice scavenger hunt. One of the items there was a seashell. This item could be found somewhere (I think it was in a chest in the serpentfly infested swamps), but it could also be bought from some lady there. So if there are many group participating and it's a big event, have some entrepreneurial villager collect all object X he can find (maybe it's all of them, maybe he missed a few). He/She is now selling them for a hefty profit.  :p

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Re: Need to do a Scavenger Hunt Adventure
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2012, 06:27:16 AM »
A werewolf pelt, now they have to figure out which of the many suspects in town really is a lycanthrope.
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Re: Need to do a Scavenger Hunt Adventure
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2012, 02:17:33 PM »
I'm playing the 1st run of the "Age of Worms" path and...
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... the initial task sounds easy enough, but, as always, it keeps getting complicated. Personally, i like that... (i won't go into more spoiler stuff)

Start off slow and with a bunch of clichés (i.e. major hints to what the players are supposed to do), like:
"Dying traveler on the road: Carry this family ring/letter/ to my family, please... Aaaaaaaaaagh..."
 They get there and most of the family is already dead from a disease or something... Only a younger brother survived and he became a bit bitter and reclusive after that. He survives by selling old trinkets and objects in town from time to time, so he's probably a spelunker of some sort. However, nobody has seen him for weeks. The best guess is that he's probably digging around some old caves and ruins near town.

The PCs get to the caves/ruins and they've been settled by goblins or a religious death-dealing cult or whatnot...
Feel free to expand from here. The brother may be a captive or a survivor, who ended up having his exit cut off by the goblin incursion...

The PCs will feel the need to get him out of there and return him safe and sound to his home.

You could then elaborate even further, by having the goblin or cult incursion part of a bigger plan of an unknown entity, into which the PCs happened to trip on...

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Re: Need to do a Scavenger Hunt Adventure
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2012, 05:08:05 AM »
A rare flower that requires some hiking in the mountains and either ingenuity or a climb check.

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Re: Need to do a Scavenger Hunt Adventure
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2013, 08:23:36 PM »
Bring me a beholder's footprint...
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Re: Need to do a Scavenger Hunt Adventure
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2013, 01:43:56 AM »
Kill the original werewolf and bring me his head so we can reverse the plague.

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Re: Need to do a Scavenger Hunt Adventure
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2013, 03:28:36 PM »
Bring me a beholder's footprint...
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