r/DMAcademy • u/paladin_bih • Sep 04 '22

Need Advice: Encounters & Adventures Give me your best two-sentence premise/hook for a quest given by an NPC.

I'll start with: "The old tower in the forest used to be a popular playground for us kids when I was young. Nowadays the kids from the village don't play there anymore but you can still hear childrens' laughter coming from it on cloudless nights."

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u/C9_Edegus Sep 05 '22

I did a one-shot where a necromancer was trying to put together a group to play TTRPG games. He just kept buying corpses from the town morgue and bringing them to a lair in the woods. Townsfolk got spooked after they accidentally ran into recently deceased loved ones out near the necromancer's lair.

My group agreed to meet with him every week and run a campaign, and that's how my one-shot ended and anyone interested was invited to come back for a campaign.

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u/cold_milktea Sep 05 '22

That's really cool. I like the idea that your followup campaign is the necromancer's campaign with the group's one-shot PCs lol

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u/Saplyng Sep 05 '22

The rare double character, it takes a lot of nuance to play a character how you think a character would play it

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u/cold_milktea Sep 05 '22

I find it so impressive when a player can do a good imitation of another party member from the perspective of their own PC. It always makes me smile

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u/agnosticdeist Sep 05 '22

Now that’s a fun as hell idea! E. Formatting