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#1 yellowdingo Mar 25, 2010 23:41:52	We've all been there. Nothing is as realitic as reality. When we as young and inexperienced DMs are hard up for great adventure Ideas we look to any port. A Newspaper can be an excellent source of Gaming information. THE DM's NEWSPAPER OF ADVENTURE IDEAS 1. THE HARLEQUIN'S MASK Investigator Riyu stared at the brutalized woman. Her face had been cut on by the very madman he was pursuing. "When was she found?" He turned to the Watchman who had found her. "Last night," The Guardsman turned away from the Corpse. "Neighbours reported Screaming." DM Briefing: A Psychopath has been attacking Women. All the victims have their mouths cut at the edges so they look like Harlequins or Puppets. Source: news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1032184/wom... 2. BLOOD SACRIFICE Dura the Fortuneteller leaned forward through the smoke. "If the clay is no longer baking red and true, A Sacrifice of Blood will see you through." Dura Fell back fron the Trance. Furdad rushed from the tent. "What did the fortune Teller say?" Azawe was waiting. "We must conduct a blood Sacrifice..." Furdad looked around. Which of his workers would he Sacrifice? DM Briefing: When the clay of a Clay digging no longer baked to traditional red, Brick Makers Sacrifice a labourer on advice of a Fortune Teller. Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/22/bangla... 3. FIRE AND ICE Sigismund turned toward the direction of the explosion. There at the top of the Glacial ice wall that towered above the far end of the Valley, the red and orange embers of an inferno spewed upward like a fountain of fire. All aroud it the Ice turned to Steam. Sigismund reached for the Alarm bell; a sound barely audible to the population of the village over the roar and thunder comming from the Glacier. "We must flee!" DM Briefing: five hundred Villagers are forced to flee as a Volcano erupts from beneath a near-by Glacier. Sourcë: www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121338&sec... So if you have a news article that can be used as an Adventure Idea, please feel free to post it in the style above.
#2 yellowdingo Mar 26, 2010 17:25:07	4. WHO CAN WE ASK FOR HELP?   Elin cowered at the brutality of the attack. The Men who had raided the House and violated its women picked through the spoils of their plunder. "Right! Where is the rest of it?" The Leader of this raid struck Elin a blow. "Where is it?" DM Briefing: In a community where Prostitution is not managed by the Guild or any Watch and is greatly (hypocritically) frowned upon, A house of ill repute is raided by bad men, the Women violated and robbed. They cant exactly go for help. Source: www.news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=...
#3 yellowdingo Mar 28, 2010 22:20:40	5. THE TIDE OF REFUGE Alberth the fisher pulled in his nets, struggling with the load of fish. THat was when he saw it. The Boat was definatly foreign and not of a type that Alberth was familiar with. It was crowded with the starving and imaciated. Men, Women and Children of some far away land. Their vessel seemed to struggle with the load and reek of a smell that suggested they had been at sea for perhaps a year. Their mast, broken and relashed struggled to withstand the forces of the feeble wind that jerked their vessel toward land. Alberth looked back at his small fishing village and wondered if they would even make the beach. DM Briefing: Boat People of a foreign and unknown land begin landing on the coast and crowding into and around Communities there. Hungry, Destitute, outcast, and all manor of suffering folk are amongst their number. They do not speak the local language and may become an underclass. Source: www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/03/29/135...
#4 yellowdingo Mar 30, 2010 20:56:04	6. BABY KILLING SON OF A... Silber jerked back from the hessian sack he had discovered snagged on the edge of the riverbank in horror retreating away from it; "Oh by the Gods..." He emptied his stomach contents on the bank. His friend patted him on the shoulder. "What's wrong?" Grandim the fisherman began working his way toward the bag that had shocked his companion. The sight of the small bodies broke Grandim immediatly to tears. There were babies in the sack. DM Briefing: Villagers discover the corpses of twenty babies on a riverbank. Somewhere up river a Wizard is conducting experiments on Babies. Source: news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1034012/two-he...
#5 yellowdingo Mar 31, 2010 0:06:42	7. COFFIN FINDERS, COFFIN KEEPERS Franco scratched at the dirt with his wooden Sod breaker. THere was definatly something there. He pushed back the dirt to reveal more of the Lead. "A Lead Box...?" It seemed a little long. Gregor was three feet away and scraping dirt off the same lead box. "A coffin perhaps?" DM Briefing: Farmers digging in a field near some old rocks uncover a thousand pound lead coffin. Considering the value of such metal, perhaps it is the Coffin of an Emperor. Source: io9.com/5504790/what-the-hell-is-buried-...
#6 yellowdingo Apr 04, 2010 18:18:12	8. THE ALVA FARUK "What kind of vessel is that?" Geran began climbing the riggings to get a better view. It was huge. Where were the Sails?  where were the Masts? It seemed flat like a Barge or a Galley. Perhaps it was rowed by Slaves? "No one Knows. It simply apeared on the reef during that terrible Maelstrom last evening." Captain Franco extended his spyglass. Geran stared down at the ocean. It was befouled with something... DM Briefing: A thousand feet long iron hull ship has crossed through from some alternate reality and become lodged on a Reef off the Coast. It has spilled a thousand tons of oil on the ocean poisoning fish stocks in the region. Source: news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1035661/def...