Scenario’s for character start of Republic of Detroit Campaign.
1) Every character has been chosen as a youth and specially trained by a wealthy eccentric person (the Colonel) to be a “strike force against the agents of evil.” It is your first team mission.
a. Questions: How compatible /cohesive is the group? Are there any rivalries or animus? Or is everyone super happy to working together?
b. What is your relationship to the Colonel? Is he a beloved father-figure or a crazy old man who tortured you during your teenage years?
2) Every character had business in a particular neighborhood when a fire breaks out. You all are pressed into service to form a bucket brigade. Later, after the fire is put out, hungry, smoky, and sweaty, you all visit a local pub together. Several beers later, on mostly empty stomachs, there is heated discussion about who could climb the fastest. You all went outside to find some ladders and then your memory gets hazy. You all wake up, miserable, in the drunk tank. The magistrate explains there was some minor property damage and multiple disorderly conduct charges. You are sentenced to community service.
a. What relationships have developed? Who is your rival, who is your friend? Why?
3) You each answer a post on a bulletin board for Adventurer’s needed. Guess what? They want to pay you to kill vermin in the sewers. You’re off to a great start!
a. Are you going to work together or are you going to fill your quota first?
4) All the players and a talking Great Dane have formed a band that likes to investigate mysteries.
a. Do you play an instrument, or do you just wave the tambourine around?
5) It is a beautiful spring day. You are in the Chapel for a wedding. Everything’s normal until it’s time for the Groom’s Vows. The Groom says in a hollow voice, “My head… hurts.” Then his forehead splits open showing an empty skull. He falls over as everyone is screaming and in moments has dissolved into a pool of ichor. (Tide is not getting that stain out.)
a. Why are you at the wedding? What is your relationship to the Groom or the Bride?
6) You are going about your business in town, when you spot someone you know. What’s really weird is this person was close you but recently deceased. You try to follow them but can’t quite catch up. After a short chase, you find yourself standing at the gate of an abandoned building. Other people show up, also having followed a deceased relative.
a. Who were you following? Do you have any unfinished business with this person?
7) When you were in elementary school, you went to a special school that your parents won a lottery to get you enrolled. This school had all kinds of different students. Then there was a fire and your favorite teacher died helping students escape. Life goes on, and everyone kind of drifts apart into different neighborhoods and schools. After your training is complete, you are back in town and you hear there is small memorial being raised to your favorite teacher. You go to the service and hear a rumor that the fire wasn’t an accident.
a. In the elementary school, were you popular and had lots of friends, or were you withdrawn?
b. How did the fire affect you? Did you help save a classmate or did someone save you? Were you off sick that day?
c. Do you remember who your friends and rivals from elementary school were? Did you have a crush on anyone?
a. Questions: How compatible /cohesive is the group? Are there any rivalries or animus? Or is everyone super happy to working together?
b. What is your relationship to the Colonel? Is he a beloved father-figure or a crazy old man who tortured you during your teenage years?
2) Every character had business in a particular neighborhood when a fire breaks out. You all are pressed into service to form a bucket brigade. Later, after the fire is put out, hungry, smoky, and sweaty, you all visit a local pub together. Several beers later, on mostly empty stomachs, there is heated discussion about who could climb the fastest. You all went outside to find some ladders and then your memory gets hazy. You all wake up, miserable, in the drunk tank. The magistrate explains there was some minor property damage and multiple disorderly conduct charges. You are sentenced to community service.
a. What relationships have developed? Who is your rival, who is your friend? Why?
3) You each answer a post on a bulletin board for Adventurer’s needed. Guess what? They want to pay you to kill vermin in the sewers. You’re off to a great start!
a. Are you going to work together or are you going to fill your quota first?
4) All the players and a talking Great Dane have formed a band that likes to investigate mysteries.
a. Do you play an instrument, or do you just wave the tambourine around?
5) It is a beautiful spring day. You are in the Chapel for a wedding. Everything’s normal until it’s time for the Groom’s Vows. The Groom says in a hollow voice, “My head… hurts.” Then his forehead splits open showing an empty skull. He falls over as everyone is screaming and in moments has dissolved into a pool of ichor. (Tide is not getting that stain out.)
a. Why are you at the wedding? What is your relationship to the Groom or the Bride?
6) You are going about your business in town, when you spot someone you know. What’s really weird is this person was close you but recently deceased. You try to follow them but can’t quite catch up. After a short chase, you find yourself standing at the gate of an abandoned building. Other people show up, also having followed a deceased relative.
a. Who were you following? Do you have any unfinished business with this person?
7) When you were in elementary school, you went to a special school that your parents won a lottery to get you enrolled. This school had all kinds of different students. Then there was a fire and your favorite teacher died helping students escape. Life goes on, and everyone kind of drifts apart into different neighborhoods and schools. After your training is complete, you are back in town and you hear there is small memorial being raised to your favorite teacher. You go to the service and hear a rumor that the fire wasn’t an accident.
a. In the elementary school, were you popular and had lots of friends, or were you withdrawn?
b. How did the fire affect you? Did you help save a classmate or did someone save you? Were you off sick that day?
c. Do you remember who your friends and rivals from elementary school were? Did you have a crush on anyone?
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