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Barbarians of Lemuria suggestions

Started by Soylent Green, May 27, 2011, 02:20:15 PM

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Soylent Green

Anyone have any suggestions for a BoL one-shot?  You'd think it be easy, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment and, silly me, I've kind of offered to run it over the weekend.
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arminius

I can't make heads or tails of the game these oracles are designed for, but they could help inspire you for a BoL scenario:

http://www.random-generator.com/index.php?title=In_a_Wicked_Age

danbuter

The players find an abandoned city. There is treasure laying about, food on tables, and no sign of any people. At night, ghosts come out.
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Take any Conan or other pulp short story or western movie and take those elements. Have multiple parties competing for one or more things who can ally with or attack the PCs.
 
Example: The party was hired as guards and other crew on the princess' ship. You're also to keep the princess from escaping as she's headed for a wedding she's not enthused about. Your ship has been attacked by pirates. many have died on both sides, including both captains. The sails became entangled which prevent maneuvering and a squall has pushed both ships to the shore, the treasure ship has broken up and the pirate ship has been beached a hundred yards away.
 
As the game opens, a tribe of savages had overrun the ship while your group had was making a sortie to capture the pirate ship. The savages grabbed the princess during the fighting and got away towards further inland. Both pirates and gruards (reduced to PCs and a small handful of NPCs) are presently licking their wound on the respective ships. The bones of the PCs' ship are sitting on top of a king's ransom that has spilled into the water.
 
The PCs could forget the princess and concentrate on killing or making a deal with the pirates and then trying to get the pirate ship free and loaded with treasure. If the natives knew of the treasure, they might be convinced to help but they might double cross the PCs and take it all. The princess is worth as much as the treasure. They native tribe has overwhelming numerical superiority but is divided into two factions, the chief wants to marry the princess and the shaman wants to sacrifice her. If the party stays inland too long, the pirates will get away with most of the treasure. If the pirate ship escapes, the group will have to travel inland through more tribes of savages.
 
Oh, and of course the princess is hot and made eyes at several ofthe PCs earlier in the voyage.  If desired, add a monster who the princess will be sacrificed to that will run amok if not appeased.

boulet

A little city at the center of a thriving farmer community in a lovely green valley but threatened by a nearby volcano. Eruptions have increased in violence and frequency for the last few weeks. Following some mysterious prophecy, the PCs are hired to capture the beautiful priestess of a nearby Ishtar temple. She is to be sacrificed to the angry flaming mountain god. The priestess is well protected and won't let herself captured easily. Are the PCs going to snatch her? Convince her of the necessity of the sacrifice, and pay the temple the price of blood? Maybe the PCs will prefer to find a solution to the mountain god problem without any human bloodshed? Is it all about a clash of power between Ishtar and the mountain god or are there covered forces at play?

The Butcher

From Dusk Till Dawn, BoL style!

Players (plus a few NPCs) are a mercenary band between profitable but hard-hitting jobs. They arrive in town and hit the local watering hole for some R&R and to lick their wounds before the next job. At night, Bad Things happens outside (vampires, zombies, cultists, enemy army) and they end up barricaded inside the inn. One or more of the serving wenches may be a "mole" for bthe antagonists outside. There may or may not be a subterranean tunnel leading to the stronghold of the baddies (the cultist's shrine, the vampire lord's castle, etc.), but finding it won't be easy, nor will the fight that will follow.

Did this for a Solomon Kane (Savage Worlds) one-shot game a few years back. Hope that helps...

Soylent Green

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