Have you ever struggled with putting together a last minute
adventure? Tired of running the same module, or paying a subscription fee in
hopes of getting a suitable adventure to run for your players? What if I told
you adventures await you at the local grocery or corner store? Are you telling
me my local bodega sells published adventures?
Yes, they do you just have to find them hiding in your local paper.
My local newspaper is the Jersey Journal, located in my hometown of Jersey City, New Jersey. I have read the pages of my local paper since I was a teenager. From time to time, a story I read in the paper becomes the source material for one of my campaigns. One of my adventures written for one of the Canonfire post fests was inspired by a newspaper article for a shortage of flu vaccines in my area. Then it steam rolled by reading another article on low reservoir levels due to increased usage during the summer time. My mind started putting the pieces
together, and then an advertisement for bed bug removal crossed my path. Eureka
an adventure was born! I wrote nearly ten thousand words for an adventure named
“All Dried Out”. Because of its size, it released as part 1 and part 2.
The shortage of flu vaccines translated into an incurable
disease. Than the water shortage gave me
an idea that the disease would cause those affected by the disease, to suffer
dehydration if they could not get enough water. The bed bugs gave me an idea to
create a parasite, which transmits the disease.
This also rolled over into creating the main adversary, though even he
is not as big as a concern as the player characters believe. However, we find out that a priest of
Incabulos was behind starting the infection, which can lead to more adventures
spun from a few articles in a local newspaper.
I wonder how many other people have used similar vices to
put together an adventure.
Later
Argon
