So, I had a fun idea for a "palate cleanser" between serious scenarios for my party. Basically a Cannonball Run-style race from Baldur's Gate to Waterdeep with the PCs as one team competing against a series of other teams. The intention: go through the check-points, deliver a McGuffin, interact with the other teams en route, no teleportation or planeshifting magic, four legs with a 48-hour stop-over at neutral groudn between legs two and three (ripe with potential for social encounters), a "Running Man"/"Hunger Games"-style announcer more or less cryptically announcing each leg before it starts with the finish line at the Yawning Portal in Waterdeep, prizes and glory to the winners etc.
I've been fleshing out the competing teams (NPC groups based on aesthetics and music genres) and a rough outline of the route/legs... so, I guess, sharing the idea - but also looking for creative input. Shoot!
EDIT: It needed a theme song! So it got one! :) [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qi2M4pkEKDgZPG8fE9Ru0G2_zad2kE08/view?usp=sharing]
I was thinking having 3 eyed ravens as the "camera man", reporting back to the organisers (yea, stolen from game of thrones!). Or the party could have an object of scrying that keeps tabs of their whereabouts and actions, but this item is also an objective, you can take out other players objects to eliminate them from the race. It adds an extra 'thing' to protect. Make it just large enough to be problematic in a combat or hazardous terrain (think trying to hold on to it whilst walking a narrow ledge on a mountain side).
The running man and deathrace 2000 both have stalkers actively trying to put an end to the teams, who of course don't follow the same rules as the participants, and might not be obvious at first that they are a stalker. Although it's best not to make the players paranoid, I did it once with a doppelganger, now they think every one is!
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Hey fellow DMs
So, I had a fun idea for a "palate cleanser" between serious scenarios for my party. Basically a Cannonball Run-style race from Baldur's Gate to Waterdeep with the PCs as one team competing against a series of other teams. The intention: go through the check-points, deliver a McGuffin, interact with the other teams en route, no teleportation or planeshifting magic, four legs with a 48-hour stop-over at neutral groudn between legs two and three (ripe with potential for social encounters), a "Running Man"/"Hunger Games"-style announcer more or less cryptically announcing each leg before it starts with the finish line at the Yawning Portal in Waterdeep, prizes and glory to the winners etc.
I've been fleshing out the competing teams (NPC groups based on aesthetics and music genres) and a rough outline of the route/legs... so, I guess, sharing the idea - but also looking for creative input. Shoot!
EDIT: It needed a theme song! So it got one! :) [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qi2M4pkEKDgZPG8fE9Ru0G2_zad2kE08/view?usp=sharing]
I was thinking having 3 eyed ravens as the "camera man", reporting back to the organisers (yea, stolen from game of thrones!). Or the party could have an object of scrying that keeps tabs of their whereabouts and actions, but this item is also an objective, you can take out other players objects to eliminate them from the race. It adds an extra 'thing' to protect. Make it just large enough to be problematic in a combat or hazardous terrain (think trying to hold on to it whilst walking a narrow ledge on a mountain side).
The running man and deathrace 2000 both have stalkers actively trying to put an end to the teams, who of course don't follow the same rules as the participants, and might not be obvious at first that they are a stalker. Although it's best not to make the players paranoid, I did it once with a doppelganger, now they think every one is!