{"id":1054,"date":"2010-11-20T17:34:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T22:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2010-11-20T17:42:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T22:42:29","slug":"setting-an-example-using-adventure-seedshooksstartsideas-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/20\/setting-an-example-using-adventure-seedshooksstartsideas-pt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting an Example: Using Adventure Seeds\/Hooks\/Starts\/Ideas, pt. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/puzzle-piece-question-mark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1064\" title=\"puzzle-piece-question-mark\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/puzzle-piece-question-mark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>In the last couple of posts we&#8217;ve discussed what adventure seeds are and outlined the basic steps to fleshing them out into full-fledged adventures. Today, I&#8217;m taking an adventure seed I found on a gaming forum and fleshing it out into a rough adventure.<\/p>\n<h2>The Seed<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Your group is tasked to infiltrate a high-security national leader&#8217;s  compound by traveling with some entertainers he has hired for a private  performance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpglife.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=555\">RPG Life Member Forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Write Down Questions<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where we really get into turning this short idea into an adventure. When reading over our adventure seed, what questions come to mind?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which national leader?<\/li>\n<li>What compound?<\/li>\n<li>What nation?<\/li>\n<li>Where is the compound?<\/li>\n<li>Who are the entertainers?<\/li>\n<li>What is the performance they&#8217;re going to do?<\/li>\n<li>Why is the leader having the performance (what&#8217;s the occasion?)<\/li>\n<li>Who hired the PCs?<\/li>\n<li>Why does (s)he need the PCs? Why not hire someone else?<\/li>\n<li>What security measures are in place?<\/li>\n<li>Why these entertainers?<\/li>\n<li>Why does the PCs employer want them to infiltrate?<\/li>\n<li>Do the PCs know why?<\/li>\n<li>Why should the PCs go?<\/li>\n<li>What happens if they succeed?<\/li>\n<li>What happens if they fail?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Back to the 6 W&#8217;s<\/h2>\n<p>We can group these questions into our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/14\/your-teacher-was-right-creating-adventures-with-the-6-ws\/\">6 W&#8217;s of Adventure Creation<\/a> and add in some more standard questions that should be asked about every adventure:<\/p>\n<h3>Who<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Who hired the PCs?<\/li>\n<li>Who is the national leader?<\/li>\n<li>Who are the entertainers?<\/li>\n<li>Who wants the mission to succeed?<\/li>\n<li>Who wants it to fail?<\/li>\n<li>Who leads the entertainers?<\/li>\n<li>Do the entertainers know about the PCs mission?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>What are the exact goals of the mission?<\/li>\n<li>What is the performance the entertainers are going to do?<\/li>\n<li>What kind of entertainers are they?<\/li>\n<li>What security measures does the location have?<\/li>\n<li>What maps do you need to create?<\/li>\n<li>What special items might the PCs need to succeed?<\/li>\n<li>What does the compound look like?<\/li>\n<li>What group or faction does the national leader belong to, if any?<\/li>\n<li>What group or faction does the PCs employer belong to, if any?<\/li>\n<li>What obstacles might stand in the way of the PCs succeeding?<\/li>\n<li>What will happen if the PCs succeed?<\/li>\n<li>What will happen if they fail?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>When<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>When is this performance to take place?<\/li>\n<li>What is the current date?<\/li>\n<li>How much time do the PCs have to prepare?<\/li>\n<li>How much time do the PCs have to complete the mission?<\/li>\n<li>How long is the performance supposed to last?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Where<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>What nation is national leader a leader of?<\/li>\n<li>Are the PCs from the same nation or a different one?<\/li>\n<li>Is the PCs employer from the same nation or a different one?<\/li>\n<li>If different, what nation?<\/li>\n<li>Is it the same nation as the PCs?<\/li>\n<li>Where is the compound located?<\/li>\n<li>Where is the performance supposed to take place?<\/li>\n<li>What is the adventure&#8217;s starting location?<\/li>\n<li>What is it&#8217;s ending location?<\/li>\n<li>What other important locations might be important?<\/li>\n<li>What are the languages, customs, and practices of the entertainers? Are they different from the PCs?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Why<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Why do the PCs need to be the ones to go on this mission (there should be a reason beyond &#8216;they&#8217;re the PCs&#8217;)?<\/li>\n<li>Why did the national leader hire <em>these <\/em>entertainers?<\/li>\n<li>Why is (s)he holding this performance (what&#8217;s the occasion)?<\/li>\n<li>Why is this mission taking place? (Why does the employer want the compound infiltrated?)<\/li>\n<li>Do the PCs know why?<\/li>\n<li>Why should the PCs go?<\/li>\n<li>Why are the entertainers taking this job?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>How are the PCs going to fit in with the entertainers?<\/li>\n<li>How might they prepare for this mission?<\/li>\n<li>How might they succeed?<\/li>\n<li>How might they fail?<\/li>\n<li>How are the entertainers going to perform?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most of the time, you&#8217;ll be creating an adventure for an established campaign or you&#8217;ll at least have an idea of the kind of setting you&#8217;re going to use this in. Since we&#8217;re creating an adventure from scratch, we need to decide some additional details, such as what genre we&#8217;re going to create this adventure for. The seed itself seems imply a science fiction, superhero, modern day, or cyberpunk-style setting. Since I want to show you that you can adapt adventure seeds that may not seem to be a perfect fit at first, let&#8217;s not use any of those. I&#8217;m going to set this in a &#8220;standard&#8221; high-fantasy genre.<\/p>\n<p>Next time we&#8217;ll begin answering the questions.<\/p>\n<p>[Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/horiavarlan\/4273168957\/\">Horia Varlan<\/a> via<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\"> Flickr Creative Commons 2.0<\/a>].<\/p>\n<h2>Other posts in this series:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/11\/and-then-what-happened-using-adventure-seedshooksstartsideas\/\">And Then What Happened? 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