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From: dickinst@crl1.crl.aecl.ca (Tim Dickinson)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.archives
Subject: RESOURCE: Campaign Spice
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Date: 7 Nov 1995 16:19:50 -0500
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IDEAS WITH WHICH ONE MIGHT MAKE THEIR CAMPAIGNS MORE INTERESTING
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PATRIMONY
A character (or a follower, or henchman) receives an "inheritance"
they didn't know they had from their father or some more ancient
ancestor. Note that these types of inheritances don't have
to be land, wealth or possessions: sometimes certain _rights_
were just as valuable. For instance the right to own land in
certain places, the right to start a business, or be exempt from
taxes, or whatever. For balance, it probably shouldn't be
something _too_ wonderful. It may even have problems attached
(squatters on land, politicians who don't like people exempt from
taxes, etc.).
CHIMNEYS
There's a killer on the loose in town. Someone (something?) is
killing people and stuffing them down chimneys and fireplace flues.
People find out when they light their morning fires and the smoke
backs up. No visible wounds. Is it poisoning? Demons? Rabid
Santa Claus?
FLOATING
Some washing women (damn, I'm sexist) are down by the river when
something horrible floats to the surface. They run back and tell
everyone. Was it alive? Dead? Is it there when someone goes
to investigate?
CRUCIBLE
Some guy off the street comes up to a character and wants to buy
an object they carry (a sword? helmet? shield?). He offers to
pay with a small marble crucible.
CALCULUS
Some sages in the city come up with a new higher-order mathematics
which they say is very useful for describing natural phenomena.
The local church immediately denounces it as unholy and sacrilege.
PROLAPSE
A medical condition with which to inflict a PC; specifically, the
falling down of a part of the body from its normal position,
usually the womb or the rectum. I kid you not. Look it up.
ACID
The players must (for whatever reason - debt, magical item required,
payment to a mage, etc.) retrieve, whole and unbroken, the internal
acid sac of a black dragon. First kill it (non-destructively), then
cut out the sac (tricky business).
RUMOR
A nasty personal rumor spreads about a PC. It's untrue, and
quite nasty. Who started it? What implications will it have?
Tim Dickinson
dickinst@crl1.crl.aecl.ca