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#1 mandarbgrim May 22, 2009 18:13:37	I'm running a 4E Ebberon game, the players have went from 1st to 4th and I still haven't developed a long term plot or goal. They were pursuing an assassin after one of the characters early in the game, discovered some confusing information. (Confusing to them more so I am sure because I hadn't solidified what was going on in my own mind yet. I just wanted it to be cryptic and confusing.) They eventually had a showdown with an assassin and necromancer..and got pulled into a portal and sent to Dolurrh while still alive. It's been pretty railroaded since then, an escape from the underworld type of thing. Mainly to make fun of one of the other players campaigns and the redundance of sending players to Ravenloft (Always temporarily) everygame with railroaded encounters. Now they have found a way out. I've got a session before they finish that. I'm currently planning to have them come out within Khyber, in an underdark, vast caverns situation under the Mournlands, with interconnected evil civilizatons/towns. My current thought is for the plot to be based along the lines of Yojimbo/A Fistful of Dollars/Last Man Standing within the Tiefling Town of Brimstone...a mix of a "western" town and Sigil. With various infernal and abberation powers/gangs balanced and conspiring against each other, but all cautious about upsetting the current "law" even in its declining state. So..what kind of basic story ideas are good for causing some major plot twists, I'm not wanting the party to just pick a side and battle it out. Although I think the Changeling is likely to advocate betraying any side he/she joins. The Tieflings background is such that she was human and became a Tiefling through selling her soul to a devil. I can take advantage of that a great deal at some point. The 3rd player doesn't really roleplaying and is just playing the "faithful guardian" type with the Tiefling. A couple other players may join at a later date. I'm just not sure where else to go with this. Ideas?
#2 Grimbus May 22, 2009 18:32:39	Something happens to change the balance of power - 1/ Someone wants to build a railroad through the territory and the characters have to deal with virtually everyone to try and get it built (like Once Upon a Time in the West meets Yoyimbo). Gangs start murdering and stealing land from farmers to sell land to railroad company. 2/ The Magnificent 4 - players are hired to clear/subdue all the gangs and protect villagers. 3/ The law gets killed prompting a bloody gang war as the rivals try and get their bod elected as the new sherrif.