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By: Cheka Man
2012-05-03 08:37 PM
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30 Things to Run or Hide From Plots  (Travel)   (Encounter)

"There is a time to fight, and a time to run and hide,and the clever thing is deciding when it is the right time to do either." Unamed veteran of many hard-fought battles.

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By: Ted
2012-04-30 05:08 PM
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Votes: 2 / 4.250000
Interrogation Plots  (Duty)   (Campaign)

One dead, one escaped, four captured. After a late-night car chase and shootout, Team A of the CRTF are probably prepared for the interrogation. That's not to say they'll be prepared for what they might learn...

By: Kassy
2012-04-11 02:02 PM
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Votes: 10 / 3.700000
A slight problem with Hell Plots  (Travel)   (Encounter)

As you are traveling through the forest you stumble accross a poor peasent, who begs you to help his village.

By: OmegaDraco
2012-02-20 06:07 PM
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Votes: 1 / 3.000000
Bavmor's Folly Plots  (Discovery)   (Side-Quest)

"Bavmor could not possibly have known that the flask was incomplete due to the magical method of its creation. Had Bavmor taken an alchemical approach, he would have known that 10 more ingredients have yet to be found."

- Fitchinger the Great

By: Ted
2012-01-15 03:01 AM
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The Tale of Koboldi Plots  (Event)   (Single-Storyline)

Downsit, you, you and you! Story tell of Koboldi rise to Island King!

By: Scrasamax
2012-01-05 01:35 AM
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Ideas: 0

Votes: 5 / 3.700000
The Invisible Trebuchet Plots  (Crisis)   (Side-Quest)

100 word Plot

By: brutus_bullworth
2012-01-02 10:26 AM
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falling empires Plots  (Crisis)   (Campaign)

3-8 adventures start out on the rural/suburban borderlands of a colapseing empire that’s being invaded by hordes of orks and hobgoblins.

By: Dragonlordmax
2011-11-20 01:26 PM
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Votes: 7 / 4.428571
What hath Science Wrought? Plots  (Discovery)   (Single-Storyline)

Or, 30 Ways for Mad Science to go Delightfully Awry

By: Ted
2011-11-20 02:06 AM
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Votes: 4 / 3.000000
The Sinblades Plots  (Crisis)   (Campaign)

Seven deadly sins plague man kind

Arrogance, Lust, Envy, Greed, Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony

Seven deadly blades for man to find

For man to cause the world great agony

 

By: Agar
2011-07-13 08:25 AM
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Votes: 6 / 3.166667
The Perils of Envy Plots  (Coincidence)   (Mini-Campaign)

An old and respected fortune teller is dying of disease and seeks out the help of andventurers to secure the heir to the fortune teller's power.

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By: RGTraynor
2011-06-26 01:58 PM
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Votes: 12 / 4.375000
30 Small Town Horror Threads Plots  (Mystical)   (Encounter)

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, this place is weird.  Yeah, yeah, that's what they all say about these small New England hilltowns.  Whatever.  This one really IS weird.  You couldn't pay me enough to go there ... only, well, yeah, I DID take someone's money to go there.  Not my brightest hour.  Alright, I'll put this note in the mail; the WiFi node at the town library doesn't seem to work, and everyone I ask says the Internet is down.  I kinda hope it gets through to you.

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By: valadaar
2011-05-04 06:14 PM
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30 WW II Adventures Plots  (Travel)   (Side-Quest)

A selection of WWII Scenerios

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By: Ted
2011-05-01 08:38 AM
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Votes: 2 / 2.000000
The Shattering Plots  (Event)   (Campaign)

What once existed is now shards of reality, floating in the sea of conflict...

By: ephemeralstability
2011-04-24 07:33 PM
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Votes: 4 / 4.250000
Tunguska Dreaming Plots  (Crisis)   (Mini-Campaign)

A (fairly sketchy) outline of a one-off adventure I ran based around the (time-honoured/hackneyed) Tunguska Event of 1908. As such it is quite specific (hopefully not hackneyed) and will probably best serve as a specimen for dissection to get those parts you can use in your own adventures. But then this is an Ideas Guild after all...

By: Dossta
2011-04-21 02:33 PM
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Ideas: 1

Votes: 6 / 4.583333
30 Dragon-Related Plots and Encounters Plots  (Coincidence)   (Encounter)

Dragons are truly awesome creatures.  Too awesome in a lot of ways, really.  Because of their power, their magnificence and their near-immortal lifespans, a GM might hesitate to include one in a campaign as anything other than an end boss.  Here are 30 non-traditional ways to bring these wonderful beasts into your own campaign.

By: Mourngrymn
2011-04-16 12:22 AM
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Ideas: 5

Votes: 9 / 4.333333
Continuous Plot Plots  (Mystical)   (Multi-Storyline)

This is a study of the effectiveness of not the individual but a group of individuals. This is an Open Ended Plot which will not be fleshed out by a single person but by who ever chooses to add content.

By: Ted
2011-03-21 05:03 PM
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Votes: 4 / 3.250000
The King's Issues with Ale... Plots  (Crisis)   (Single-Storyline)

The King has an issue about the ale that is extremely popular in his nation...

By: Moonlake
2011-02-27 06:03 PM
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Votes: 3 / 3.500000
The intertwining of Time and Music Plots  (Mystical)   (Single-Storyline)

The story of a castle where time and the sound of piano intertwines 

By: Dossta
2011-02-25 07:00 PM
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Votes: 10 / 4.550000
A Cupid for Cornelius Plots  (Hired)   (Side-Quest)

Ah, Spring! When a dragon’s fancy turns towards thoughts of (ahem) love. Unfortunately, this particular dragon has been very unlucky in matters of the heart and has yet to mate successfully. The females just don’t understand him, you see. This year, however, he’s trying a different approach by hiring a group of adventurers to take his message of love and/or lust to several scaled beauties that he’s had his eye on for some time. Can they convince one of the ladies to mate with him?

By: Cheka Man
2011-02-23 02:11 PM
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Votes: 5 / 3.800000
The Quest For Helen Plots  (Hired)   (Single-Storyline)

The PCs are sent to rescue the Lady Helen from the pyramid she has been trapped in...but it will not be easy.

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Nine times out of ten, it’s the undead that do the running. Not strictly animal or vegetable, the Corpse bud is a peculiar individual that shares characteristics from multiple kingdoms and species. In appearance, all corpse buds bear a shape of a large rounded top bud divided into four lateral segments, and a much longer, narrower bottom bud, also divided into four segments. Between the two halves are a set of four radial limbs, rounded on top and flat on the bottom, covered with tiny serrated hooks facing towards the body. In overall size, it’s limbs reach as wide as a spread hand, with the body being as thick as a fist. It is as long as a human hand from top to bottom. Internally, the top bud of the corpse bud contains a bacteria filled membrane that produces the hydrogen that the corpse bud uses to stay aloft, and a series of fungal gills for the dispersal of spores for reproduction. The lower half of the bud contains a number of fine filaments, as well as a sharp barbed stinger containing a powerful local anaesthesia. The Corpse Bud mobilizes by inflating its top bud, and steers by rotating its arms rapidly about its body. The corpse bud ordinarily drifts with the wind, orienting towards the scent of recent decay and death. It preys on the recently dead, burrowing the lower bud into the victim, using the anaesthesia in case the victim is dying, and not truly deceased. Once embedded, it releases its filaments into the body, replacing the current nervous system. This gives it full animation of the body, and allows the corpse bud to direct it. Corpse buds are not a malevolent species, being primarily concerned with breaking down the host body for food, and infecting the reproductive cycle with spores in order to mate with other corpse-bud bodies. To preserve the corpse for this purpose, Corpse buds will seek out dry locations to prevent bacteria from destroying the corpses. This often causes a large number of corpse buds to gather in a single location. In culture, Corpse buds are used to repair broken spines or degenerative diseases, as the sentient mind will easily overcome the mind of the non-sentient corpse bud. Once infected by a corpse bud, however, removal is usually fatal, and the infected individual cannot reproduce, or risk infecting another. Thus, it is a technique often reserved for the elderly, or a last resort. Necromancers and other dark sorcerers will often preserve the corpses of their victims magically, and infect them with corpse buds, creating traditional undead as well, so as to seed their lairs with undead both offensive and non, in order to throw their enemies off balance. They will also enslave the rudimentary minds of the corpse buds, and transform the docile things into a plague. There have also been accounts of magically transformed corpse buds with stronger minds and a taste for living flesh, but thus far all accounts are unproven rumors.
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